
British Invasion producer/songwriter Pete Miller hit the scene early into Britain's love affair with American rock. Starting in the late 502s, he recorded with early rock n' roll groups, beat bands and penned and recorded one of the first English psychedelic songs. His distortion-flooded psych-era output is amazingly weird and surprisingly catchy, for some reason I had him pegged and Belgian or Dutch (probably because of his ESL sounding vocal delivery). Wearing many hats and recording under many monikers over the years (kind of like a white, British, George Clinton), Pete ended up in San Francisco in the 702s, his [...]

In the five and a half years this site has been meandering along the number of music blogs has mushroomed. Dozens pop up every day adding to the thousands already whacking up the latest MP3 to Rapidshare. What hasn't increased any where near as rapidly are the blogs willing to do more than just shove up an MP32s with a line of text. Stumbling across a blogger who actually creates, who brings knowledge and passion to their musical signposts is a rare and wonderful thing. As such I have to draw overdue attention to the fabulous interview come musical [...]

Big Boy Pete is your quintessential slice of lost psych. Or is he? Re-releasing a string of solid material from the 60s in the late 90s and 2000s, "Big Boy" Pete Miller's prolific and good quality works have caused some archivists to wonder. Yes, I have heard some people claim that Pete Miller's stuff is fake. But regardless of whether Big Boy Pete's music was recorded back in the day, or in a home studio by a modern-day-super-psych-fan, his works have been accepted as psychedelic standards. World War IV, recorded in the late 60s and released [...]