Middle Earth The Soundtrack Of Londons Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967-1969 Various (CD)

64-Track, 3CD Collection Featuring The Halcyon Days Of The Legendary London Venue. Starting Out Briefly As The Electric Garden, Middle Earth Opened It’s Doors In 1967 And Immediately Became The Most Happening Club In London. More Than Just A Home For UK Bands That Were Pushing The Boundaries Of Rock Music, Middle Earth Also Attracted Some Of America’s Finest Exponents Of Psychedelic Rock Such As Captain Beefheart, The Byrds, The Fugs, Jefferson Airplane, And Many More. Fledgling UK acts that would go on to great things such as Soft Machine, Tomorrow (The In-Crowd), David Bowie (The Riot Squad), Yes, The Incredible String Band, Ten Years After, and Free were joined by more established acts like Traffic, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, The Pretty Things and The Yardbirds. Cult favourites, who would never attain the commercial success of those just mentioned but are revered by those that know, include The Deviants, Dantalion’s Chariot, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, Third Ear Band, and Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, among others. The club only last a few years but it’s timeline coincided neatly with the rapid and ever- developing rise of psychedelic rock in the UK and as such this compilation serves as the perfect guide to how the genre evolved. Jeff Dexter, the house DJ and main man at Middle Earth, has been interviewed exclusively for this release and deep image research has thrown up many unseen images to round out what is the definitive document on the UK’s ultimate psychedelic rock club.

Track List

1. Family – a Good Friend of Mine
2. Soft Machine – I Should Have Known
3. The in Crowd – Am I Glad to See You
4. Julie Driscoll Brian Auger ; the Trinity – a Kind of Love-In
5. Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera – Salisbury Plain
6. Fairport Convention – Time Will Show the Wiser
7. Paper Blitz Tissue – Grey Man
8. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Devil’s Grip
9. The Riot Squad Ft David Bowie – I’m Waiting for My Man
10. The Flies – House of Love
11. Keith Dangerfield ; the Way Ahead – She’s a Witch
12. Graham Bond – Strange Times Sad Times
13. Tales of Justine – Monday Morning
14. Denny Laine – Too Much in Love
15. Picadilly Line – How Could You Say You’re Leaving Me
16. Third Ear Band – Raga No. 1
17. Mabel Greer’s Toyshop – Images of You and Me
18. The Action – Climbing Up the Wall (See Me)
19. Blossom Toes – Telegram Tuesday
20. Eyes of Blue – Prodigal Son
21. The Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band – Canyons of Your Mind
22. The Incredible String Band – Way Back in the 1960S
23. Traffic – Feeling Alright?
24. Ten Years After – Portable People
25. The Knack – (The Man from the) Marriage Guidance and Advice Bureau
26. The Pretty Things – Balloon Burning
27. The Electric Prunes – Long Day’s Flight
28. Dr. K’s Blues Band – Pet Cream Man
29. Eclection – Mark Time
30. Dantalion’s Chariot – Soma (Parts 1 ; 2)
31. Blonde on Blonde – All Day All Night
32. The Yardbirds – Drinking Muddy Water
33. The Deviants – Garbage
34. Captain Beefheart – Yellow Brick Road
35. Spooky Tooth – Sunshine Help Me
36. Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman
37. Tim Rose – Dim Light a Burning
38. Champion Jack Dupree – I Haven’t Done No-One No Harm
39. Tim Buckley – Wings
40. Amalgam – Prayer for Peace
41. Chris McGregor Septet – Up to Earth
42. The Byrds – Artificial Energy
43. The Mindbenders – Uncle Joe the Ice Cream Man
44. Small Faces – Yesterday Today and Tomorrow
45. Free – I’m a Mover
46. Junior’s Eyes – Black Snake
47. Edgar Broughton Band – Evil
48. Killing Floor – Forget It!
49. Jefferson Airplane – Crown of Creation
50. Pete Brown ; His Battered Ornaments – the Week Looked Good on Paper
51. Canned Heat – on the Road Again
52. Chicken Shack – Worried About My Woman
53. The Fugs – Crystal Liaison
54. The Who – Magic Bus
55. Liverpool Scene – Baby
56. John James – Maybelle Rag
57. Yes – Sweetness
58. Sleepy – Love’s Immortal Fire
59. The Gun – Sunshine
60. Arcadium – Woman of a Thousand Years
61. Barclay James Harvest – Poor Wages
62. Love Sculpture – Wang Dang Doodle
63. Steamhammer – Lost You Too
64. Vamp – Floatin’

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