Ultimate Spinach - Behold & See (1968 Boston, USA) | Psych Rock | Vinyl Stream

For today's psychedelic trip this morning I'm spinning Behold & See by Ultimate Spinach - original 1968 US mono promo pressing on MGM, yellow labels with black print, Special Disc Jockey Record Not For Sale. Ultimate Spinach formed in 1967 as Underground Cinema. Ian Bruce-Douglas put the band together on Cape Cod after a weekend at Timothy Leary's Millbrook estate. He wrote everything, played multiple instruments, and sang most of the leads. The band was signed by producer Alan Lorber and became one of the three cornerstones of the Bosstown Sound - the marketing push Lorber launched in trade papers in September 1967 to make Boston the next Haight-Ashbury. The other two cornerstones were Beacon Street Union and Orpheus. All three were on MGM. Behold & See came out in August 1968, just eight months after the debut. Bruce-Douglas wrote most of it in the studio between takes with bronchitis and pneumonia while the band had stopped speaking to him. In the Psychedelic Baby interview he calls producer Lorber "The Parasite" - says Lorber played him and his bandmates against each other. He thinks this album is much better than the debut, more creative, and reflects how much he grew between the two. "Mind Flowers" is his second major psychedelic epic after "Hip Death Goddess." "Jazz Thing" uses 4/4 for the vocals and 3/4 waltz time for the instrumental sections. "Fragmentary March Of Green" is about a man who goes insane trying to do the right thing. The band dissolved shortly after this hit shelves. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ Full vinyl rips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn Shop: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #UltimateSpinach #BosstownSound #VinylStream #VinylPiper #PsychRock