If you haven’t already, it’s about time for you to open your own mind too … and whatever else is needed, will follow. An iconic underground band, a psychedelic cult spawn on the second half of the years' 80.
#THE OPEN MIND MAGIC POTION FREE#
While it’s with the following I Feel The Same Way Too that an acid drop or two start popin’ up within a bit heavier, Cream-y musical “attack”, most audible, of course, in their non-album magnum opus, Magic Potion, as well as in Before My Time, Free As The Breeze or Falling Again etc, and just to make sure and justify the actual Britsike tag in a more conventional way, there’s also Horses And Chariots. Cast a Spell by MAGIC POTION, released 12 November 2021 Spit / Fire and Spittle Records are proud to present Cast A Spell, the complete work on double CD by MAGIC POTION, one of the most compelling independent italian bands coming all the way from the Eternal city.
#THE OPEN MIND MAGIC POTION MOD#
Two more album tracks, Thor The Thunder God and Soul And My Will, also don’t fall too far from the same Yardbirds Beck-lash, while the opening pair finds them hitting the snappy mod target, recalling some other boys about town, such as the early Who in Dear Louise or The Creation in Try Another Day. After being regarded as “one of the best loved psychedelic albums of all time”, it was about time for a proper re-issue of this one to see the light of day too.Īs with my own bootleg version (not sure about the others) lacking The Drag Set single, from the time before they “opened their minds”, with it’s inclusion over here we get the most definite collection of The Open Mind’s released output.īefore turning from “nondescript dandies” to leather outfit-ed swinging London scenesters, they delivered an equally great piece of freakbeat in the shape of Day And Night, gracing the A-side of the above mentioned single, which later on evolved from it’s initial Beck-era Yardbirds sound to an even freakier, Misunderstood-like workout, included on the long-playing release, re-titled as Girl I’m So Alone.
DEON JACKSON - I NEED A LOVE LIKE YOURS.LOU COURTNEY - I WATCHED YOU SLOWLY SLIP AWAY.I certainly wasn't surprised as this is the most arse-kicking psychedelic record ever made.
Here it is fifteen years later and this record is now in my collection! Due to lots of grief from the seller the deal almost fell through and it certainly was heartbreaking that it almost slipped through my fingers but all was right in the universe and I was able to collect it in person while I was recently in London and DJ'ed it out that same night to not only my utmost satisfaction but it elicited some real heat on the dance floor as well. It's not as if I would have found it on any of my digging excursions through rural flea markets and my favorite record store haunts! Cast A Spell Lyrics: Cast a spell upon yourself / See what will happen to you / A thousand years beyond your time / Yours if you only try / Its all in the mind / Its all in the mind / Its all. Some time later (but still in those pre-internet days) I learned enough about the record to know that it was incredibly hard to get so at the time I basically put it out of my head that I would ever own it. This was also a time when I was heavily collecting psychedelic records so this just built up the urgency to find out more about this record and group. At the time, I worked at a small record shop and I poured over all of our import catalogs for any trace of the Open Mind on any format or compilation and there was NOTHING. I first heard "Magic Potion" around 1993 when it was covered by the British psychedelic group Sundial (on their "Return Journey" album) I distinctly remember reading in one of the reviews for the disc that the song was originally performed by the Open Mind which started the search. An absolute holy grail record for me that I never thought I would actually own. Take a drink from a magic potion Tell me do you still feel fine Once sip and you will sea Things you never saw.