Recent content by Clear Light

Max has been my good friend for many years now, he lived not far from me and we often got together to chat about garage and psych and collaborated on many projects along the way. He was a very kind and generous soul and his passing is a great loss to the world. I will be doing my best to...

Sorry for the delay in responding to your question - it was while searching for the second album tapes that the other previously unissued recordings were discovered, sadly we have been unable to locate the masters for the second album sessions which is why those tracks have not been included...

Afraid so.

Here's the sales blurb from Big Beat and the tracklisting: Clear Light’s eponymous 1967 album is one of the jewels of Elektra Records’ 1960s catalogue. A short-lived, much-loved Los Angeles aggregate, the band is best known for including sometime Doors bassist Doug Lubahn and future CSNY and...

Without a doubt, and the recent bootleg release from Germany.

A few years back I asked Alec Palao to see what he could find in the Elektra archives relating to Clear Light, I was hoping that the tapes for their unreleased second album might still be languishing on a shelf somewhere. Unfortunately those tapes were absent, but Alec did discover a number of...

Finally found a copy :)

There's plenty of Seeds fans in the UK who are gagging to see the film.

I'll be there - you can be sure of that!

I'm hoping Alec will bring the film to the UK before it gets released on DVD. Hope all is groovy with you, JoeyD.

Yeah, I'd forgotten about 'Highly Illogical', my memory banks crashed after recollecting Len's version of 'If I had A Hammer'.

We tried to steer them towards something more visually appealing but they had their own ideas. The actual sleeves are screen printed and look pretty crude. I'd actually wanted to do the vinyl issue off my own back, but I just wasn't able to raise enough money to do it before this label came...

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins was probably the best thing he did....

Here's something you won't read in the liner notes. I've just discovered that the final five piece line up of the Velvet Illusions that recorded the 'Mini Shimmy' and 'Lazy' 45s included Roland Bautista who would go on to Earth Wind & Fire. He's the one responsible for that wild fuzz guitar...

Beamed up for the last time :(