The Misunderstood | Children Of The Sun: The Complete Recordings 1965-66 / 05 April 2021 507 Views
For astronomical potential prematurely curtailed, few fables top California’s awesome Misunderstood who, on the advice of their ex-pat DJ buddy John Ravenscroft, relocated to London to find an audience receptive to their futuristic Yardbirds-derived R&B laced with Glenn Campbell’s other-worldly pedal steel. After December 1966’s still-stunning I Can Take You To The Sun manifested as a psychedelic landmark, singer-songwriter Rick Brown fell victim to the US draft, splintering the band and leaving a recordings trail, including Shapes of Things-mutating posthumous single Children Of The Sun and mind-blowing signature blow-out I Unseen. This inestimably vital set remasters all available recordings from California and London in original mono, its riveting history in the making explained in insightful notes from Ugly Things’ Mike Stax.
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Definitive statement on the John Peel-lauded psychedelic pioneers
by Kieron TylerSunday, 28 February 2021
On 31 December 1966, the
Daily Mail s Virginia Ironside got to grips with a new trend in pop music. Under the heading “The bleeps take over”, Jimmy Hendrix (
sic) The Move and The Pink Floyd were gathered together as purveyors of something The Who had started with “feedback, violence, ripping strings from their guitars.” “New groups,” it was said “are taking it farther and farther out.
because for us, as europeans, it is only normal again when we are great again. see what he did there? when we are great again. we europeans. make white people great again. also, did you notice the white people are children of the sun? did you notice that line from him? i would just i m not expert but i would think children of the sun would be more tan. you mow what i m saying? this was not a tan group. but now that we ve got this new president-elect, this is the news cycle on the monday of thanksgiving week because this is part of our national politics now. with this new president-elect and the way he got elected and who he is bringing with him to washington. this is the kind of thing we re getting used to covering now. honestly the view from inside today s news cycle, trying to figure out how to do an evening
but today it is clear his election is only intensifying the storm of hatred and hysteria being directed against us. as europeans we are uniquely at the center of history. we are, as hagel recognized, the embodiment of world history itself. no one will honor us for losing gracefully. no one mourns the great crimes committed against us. for us it is conquer or die. this is a [ applause ] this is a unique burden for the white man that our fate is entirely in our hands. and it is appropriate because within us, within the very blood in our veins as children of the sun lies the potential for
greatness. that is the great struggle we are called to. we were meant to overcome, overcome all of it because that is natural and normal for us. [ applause ] because for us, as europeans, it is only normal again when we are great again. see what he did there? when we are great again. we europeans. make white people great again. also, did you notice the white people are children of the sun? did you notice that line from him? i would just i m not expert but i would think children of the sun would be more tan. you mow what i m saying? this was not a tan group. but now that we ve got this new president-elect, this is the news cycle on the monday of