Tomorrow I begin my spring break. So, today, I have to pack and make sure everything is set here in Binghamton before the drive home tomorrow. Tonight will be busy. But, next week the lyricist section will be back up. I promise. I could not leave you all with no post today though. And, what better song to profile today than The Dark Side of the Mushroom.
Let me guess what some of you are thinking. Who are you and what have you done with my Pink Floyd? Well, please do not get to worried…or angry. “The Dark Side of the Mushroom (not moon)” is actually a 1967 song from the Chocolate Watch Band, a garage-rock band formed in San Jose, California. The song appeared on the album No Way Out which was released six years before Dark Side of the Moon. The song is a fantastic piece of psychedelia. It is exciting to hear early psychedelic songs; especially to this quality. The hook of this song is just genius and the haunting psychedelic fill is a remarkably fatidic melody. This band was doing psychedelia before it was cool and I give them so much credit for that.
Check out the Song:
The Music Court 
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