Most comprehensive overview yet of the Ladbroke Grove-based late 60s/early 70s freak scene. Four-hour anthology of locally based acts featuring much previously unreleased or rare material. Now widely acknowledged as Albion's equivalent of the Haight-Ashbury underground scene in San Francisco, Ladbroke Grove in West London developed into the epicentre of the late 60s British counterculture movement. Cheap rents had already attracted beatniks, bohemians and the Windrush generation of West Indian immigrants, and they were joined as the decade wore on by a motley crew of musicians, freaks and anarchists as the home-grown hippie sub-culture found a spiritual and physical base. Also housing the burgeoning underground press and various rock band management agencies, the area around Ladbroke Grove, Holland Park and Notting Hill Gate spawned it's own music scene that included Hawkwind, Quintessence, Edgar Broughton Band, Skin Alley, Third Ear Band and High Tide. Featuring all of the above acts, 'Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975' is the most comprehensive overview yet of the West London freak scene, incorporating such integral local movers 'n' shakers as Mick Farren and The Deviants, Twink, Steve Peregrin Took, Lemmy, Sam Hutt, Hapshash, Davey Graham, Graham Bond and Carol Grimes. Alongside Pink Fairies, Trees, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Quiver, Uncle Dog, Steamhammer, Mighty Baby, Family, Pretty Things, Junior's Eyes and Cochise, the collection incorporates key cuts from the local immigrant community (Mataya, Noir, Ram John Holder). With a lavish 48-page booklet and four hours of music that features much previously unreleased and rare material (including the first home-made demo recording by Roxy Music, who had their protracted genesis in the area), 'Deviation Street' is an essential purchase for anyone interested in the late 60s British underground.
Tracklist:
Notting Hill Gate (Single Version) - Quintessence
Hurry on Sundown -Hawkwind Zoo
Blind to Your Light -Carol Grimes ; Delivery
Hallucinations -Tomorrow
Black Leather Gloves -Bodast
Subway (Smokey Pokey World) - the Tickle
Long Time Coming -Village
Painted Lady - Cochise
Cold Embrace - Sam Gopal
I'm a Stranger - the Action
Living in Sin - Skin Alley
Changes* - Mataya
Sickle Clowns - Thepretty Things
Song for Lots - Family
Galactic Zoo - Kingdom Come
Powis Square Child -Roger Bunn
The Answer - Peter Bardens
Looking for Time - Bond and Brown
Which Dreamed It -Boeing Duveen ; the Beautiful Soup
Out Demons Out - Edgar Broughton Band
All in Your Mind (Single Version) - Stray
Blankman Cries Again -High Tide
Turn Around -Steamhammer
Afta - Davey Graham ; Holly
Slipstreams - Mighty Baby
Sun Music - Skin Alley
Glad I Came Around -Quiver
A Mind Blown Is a Mind
Shown - Hapshash and the Coloured Coat
We Took the Wrong Step
Years Ago - Hawkwind
Slum Lord - the Deviants
Notting Hill Eviction
Blues - Ram John Holder
Concrete Line Up - Ron Geesin
Sad Song for Winter -Chimera
Velvet to Atone - Trader Horne
April Affair - G. F. Fitzgerald
Rings of Fortune -Tyrannosaurus Rex
My Mind - Themisunderstood
If* - Rosemary
Uncle Harry's Last
Circus Days (Single Version)
Junior's Eyes
Nothing Special - Trees
10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box - the Aquarian Age
Cosmic Surfer -Quintessence
The System - Noir
Very Fine... Far Away - Third Ear Band
Still Yawning, Still-Born -Shagrat
2HB (Demo Version) - Roxy Music
One Hand Clapping* -Rosemary
Old Hat - Uncle Dog
Summertime Blues - Mickfarren
The Right Stuff - Robert Calvert
Kings of Speed - Michael
Moorcock ; Deep Fix
Lost Johnny - Motörhead
Silent Telephone - the 101'Ers
I'm a Free Man - Mataya
Ladbroke Grove Blues -Ram John Holder
Witchdoctor - Ginger
Johnson ; His African Messengers
Deviation Street - the Deviants
UPC: 5013929192300 Label: Grapefruit Release Date: 3.3.23 Format: CD
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