Way back in the early 1990s I bought this (now long deleted) compilation and it's follow up, 'The Psychedelic Years Revisted 1966-1969'. It got me into all sorts of other bands and opened my head up and made me listen to artists other than The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Monkees and Eddie Cochran, which is all I listened to at the time.
I'm off work at the moment after being assaulted, a wound which required 8 stitches on my chest. So, with all this free time I thought I'd put together a visual version of this compilation so I can, years after buying it, actually see some of the bands featured. Everything has been downloaded from YouTube in the highest possible quality (which is still a bit ropey for a couple of tracks, but most are good quality). If a band has a couple of vintage perfomances on there I've chosen one for the main folder then included any other versions in an EXTRAS folder. All tracks are presented in the order they are in on the compilation. If a track is missing it's because there wasn't a clip of the artist performing the song available to download. Sometimes I have included an alternate take (like a BBC version of 'Shy Boy' by Kippington Lodge) when no performance footage is available. Only once have I included a more recent performance of a song, 'Alone Again Or' by Love, but that was because there is no vintage video and the performance is so good it would have been a shame not to have the song represented.
Download Vol.1 from here: [removed by admin]
I plan to do the follow up compilation next.
