OFF: Strawberry Alarm Clock (was: HW: Astoria last night)

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:46:07PM -0500, tim elliott typed out:
> Jon: So how was the Strawberry Alarm Clock CD?? (BTW, who's guitar player
> went on to form Lynyrd Skynyrd)

	It's not *bad* I guess, but I think my taste runs much more to 
the late-ear hippy stuff when people were seeing the cracks--Love, 
Hendrix and so on--than stuff this early when they seem to have 
genuinely believed that flowers and drugs would save humanity. There's 
quite a lot of fluff on it, in other words, and I'm not sure they were 
quite together enough to make fluff powerful rather than just nice. A 
few stand-out tracks, but all in all I doubt I'll be reaching for it 
that often. On the other hand, it was a cheap way to find out what lay 
behind the name. Yours,
			Jon

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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk