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Blind Owl Wilson - Compilation Blind Owl Wilson was a truly great guitarist and vocalist whose deep wellof psychedelic blues songs were buried amongst the catalog of major label rockin’ blues band Canned Heat. Blind Owl served as Canned Heat’s guitarist and would chip in a song here and there as a front man. A couple of those songs became huge hits in the 60’s – “Going Up The Country” and “On The Road Again”. Blind Owl’s songs for Canned Heat stood in stark contrast to the bands blustery blues rock – his was a gentle and nuanced voice and the themes of his song were all about personal heartbreak, grasping for cosmic understanding, and ecological justice.

Thorpe Park has a rather tame ride called “Mr Money’s Banana Ride” which is basically a big gondola sing shaped like a banana. Fred, guitarist of The Fred and Al Experience was rather taken with it despite it’s lameness and he rode it three times in row on Al’s birthday outing. I thought the ride sounded lie a lost psychedelic single so it was born (very quickly) in one evening in my studio with my new work flow of.. just bugger it. So drums, bass and guitars are a noisy mess and it was put down whilst I didn’t lose momentum. For some reason I usually end up sounding like Syd Barrett or is that Syd Sarratt ?

LThe Mummies are an American garage punk band formed in San Bruno, California, in 1988. Exhibiting a defiantly raw and lo-fi sound, dubbed “budget rock”, the Mummies’ rebellious attitude and distinctive performance costumes exerted a major influence on garage punk and garage rock revival acts later in the decade, as well as in the 1990s. Their recorded output was intentionally completed with poor, cheap equipment, including their first and only studio album Never Been Caught, which was released after the group’s initial break-up.

Somewhere in Denge Marsh a group of Aliens have “Gone on holiday by mistake”. A nearby static caravan site of Romney Sands attracted the visitors advertising a thrilling stay. Close to the hum of Dungeness Power station, the aliens take shelter in the abandoned gravel pits next to the concrete acoustic radar dishes. They’ve been stuck there for about 40 years now and are largely unnoticed. They quite like our music and the decent chips from the nearby Pilot pub but there is now a creeping sense of Ennui with the human race and it’s limitless stupidity.

Slightly bored and restless I built a Raspberry Pi Zero powered time-lapse camera from cheap bits.