Just now saw Electric Flag's The Trip soundtrack on 1967 Rock Bands Debuts poll thread: knew they'd done it, but not that it was the first. Now I see some promising descriptions online---this Wiki lists several others I hadn't heard of, also looks like soundtrack was never on CD, apparently. I've still got A Long Time Comin' on CD, still holds up. I always thought of it as a more electric, hipster cousin to Big Pink: that same syncretic urge to merge different kinds of American music---"eclectic" was thee groovy term then, though some attempts just came off like resumé rock or more trend-chasing, a la Spinal Tap. Didn't hear any other EF---this article also reminds, as does the xpost Ed/Edd Bloomfield chronicle, just how precarious and hectic this band could be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Flag
― dow, Saturday, 1 January 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
DId we even discuss how that was a really early, pre-Monterey use of the Moog on that thread? No, I don't think we did.
― A Little Bit Meme, a Little Bit URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 January 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
the trip soundtrack did get a truncated cd release like 20 years ago, not sure what the logic was in cutting an already short album even more!
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 2 January 2022 00:09 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpuE-yMtZc
#OneThread
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 January 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
Ha, exactly! Was wondering when we would get to that and even checked earlier today whether it had been posted recently.
― A Little Bit Meme, a Little Bit URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 January 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link