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Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
12+ albums
Psychedelic Rockpsychedelic60sGarage Rockrock
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Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera (aka "Velvet Opera") was a British rock band active in the late 1960s. Members of the band would later become members of Strawbs, Hudson Ford and Stretch. The band picked up on the British psychedelic movement after supporting The Pink Floyd as a soul/blues band called 'The Five Proud Walkers', the lineup was Richard " Hud" Hudson on drums, John Ford on bass, Colin Forster on lead guitar, Jimmy Horrocks (Horovitz) on organ and flute (who left early in the band's history), and Dave Terry on vocals and harmonica. Earlier, they gigged for a while playing blues-based material,but gradually got interested in more a free-form style. The name Velvet Opera was chosen initially, which was amended to Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera within days after Dave Terry turned up to a session wearing a long black cape and a preacher's hat and had to endure some piss-taking from the rest of the band (Elmer Gantry was the fictional hero of a Sinclair Lewis novel and 1960 film about a preacher). The name stuck and Dave became Elmer. By this time Elmer, influenced by the music of John Cage, was making experimental taped backing sounds and using signal generators on stage in the act. The band began to get quite a following and played clubs and university gigs all over the UK and at London venues like the Marquee and 100 club and Electric Garden. They would also occasionally play at the Speakeasy where Jimi Hendrix would jam with them, also people like Jeff beck and Eric
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Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
Psychedelic '60s - Rare Tracks
Long Nights Of Summer: The Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera Anthology
Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol.2
Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers, Vol. 2
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Maximum Sitar: 18 Classics From Psychedelia's Golden Age
Ride A Hustler's Dream
The Rock Machine Turns You On
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Maximum Sitar - Remastered. Sitar Psychedelia from the 60's & 70's
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Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers, Vol. 2 (Remastered)
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Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 2
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Piccadilly Sunshine, Part 9: British Pop Psych & Other Flavours, 1964 - 1970