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Artist
The Patron Saints
12+ albums
Psychedelic Rock
about
A classic example of a private press release gaining a reputation far outside its initial impact, Fohhoh Bohob was recorded in enthusiastic amateur fashion by the three teenagers in the Patron Saints during early summer 1969 at member Paul D'Alton's house while the rest of his family was on vacation. As explained by de facto bandleader Eric Bergman in the liner notes to the 2007 reissue on Time-Lag, the goal of the trio was to get something out there on their own, even though they could only afford a quick pressing of a hundred copies. Nearly forty years on, the perfect charm of Fohhoh Bohob -- a phrase the original liner notes claims means ‘greetings of the mouth' -- remains immediate and intact. Combining enough technical skill and good enough equipment to result in a reasonable if low-key recording plus a jaunty sense of humor and young but not sloppy instrumental skills on the part of the band, the album's an immediate, gentle pleasure, perhaps one of the first rural psychedelic albums as such. The trio's love for any number of groups of the time is perfectly apparent -- Bergman mentions such logical names as the Beatles, Hendrix and Paul Butterfield -- but it's the reference to Moby Grape that makes the most sense, since this is almost the more upbeat, full band equivalent to Skip Spence's near simultaneously-recorded Oar. The rave-ups on "Flower" and "Relax" and the jaunty vaudevillian kick of "Do You Think About Me?" are merry treats, while the low-key, gentle singing
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albums
The Latimer Sessions
Fohhoh Bohob
Fohhoh Bohob-Deluxe Edition
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Love, Peace & Poetry: American Psychedelic Music
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Love, Peace & Poetry -- American Psychedelic Music
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Time And Place
Love, Peace & Poetry - American Psychedelic Music
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Pop Punk, Pizza & Cider, Vol. 1
Patron Saints
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Dead End Dreams
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Proto Bohob
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Other Side of the Story