[OT] Ping TNP re West Coast psychedelic rock track

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Spike 5 years ago

A little while ago I asked for help from the group in identifying the track/band/genre of a piece of music played as background to a scene in the TV series Waking The Dead, to which you kindly replied with your thoughts.

Since then, I've been doing some research, namely listening to the results of a search for 'psychedelic rock' on Spotify.

An early candidate for the formative piece in question was Jefferson Airplane's Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon from their 1969 album The Woodstock Experience, in which the bass line of the 'middle eight' might have been the inspiration for the piece from the TV series. At 2m45 into the track there's a change to a slow tempo with chord structure and bass line suggestive of that from the TV series.

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However....I've just stumbled across Mind Flowers from the group Ultimate Spinach and their 1968 album Behold And See. The whole track, some 9m40 long, is slow psychedelic rock and which is very reminiscent of the relevant part of the background piece from the TV series, and could well have been the source of inspiration for it. Interestingly, the track concerns someone with a troubled mind, exactly the same as that part of the Waking The Dead episode the music is background to. You tube video here:

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[Navigate on iPlayer to Series 6 of 'Waking the Dead', Episode 9 ("Double Bind" part 1). The incidental music of interest occurs in two places, 35m32 to 36m02, and a longer piece at 38m35 to 39m53]

See what you think.

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Dave Plowman (News 5 years ago

TV often uses library music. It is recorded for this sort of use, and less expensive than using commercial music. Also generally no copyright problems when selling the prog around the world, or repeating it.

Some of those who write this 'mood music' are very good at making it sound a bit like a track you know from a while back.

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Tim 5 years ago

Why do some people call you Burt, Burt?

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Brian Gaff (Sofa 5 years ago

On an old easy listening album, there is an Ultimate Spinach track, cut into four little bits each one in a different mood, one is kind of Jethro Tull like while one is folk like, one a bit drug induced etc. Brian

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