Track: 2
Title: ALAIN’S PSYCHEDELIC BREAKFAST
Authorship: --
Recording date: 23 April 1989
Recording place: 1881 Drake Drive, Montclair, Oakland, CA
Recording of television audio onto cassette using a dictaphone.
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 00:33
First appeared on Thus spake Psilocybin.
Released 16 May 2021
[via multiple streaming services]
Particulars: A recording of an MTV broadcast review of “The Big O” album by The Ophelias.
lyrics
Come in! Glad I could be of some help.
Remember reading Hamlet, Kevin?
No, Shakespeare, not Jack Fiennes.
Anyway, Hamlet Act IV, scene vii, Ophelia drowns in a river surrounded by wild flowers. That makes her the godmother of psychedelia according to a band from, where else? San Francisco. In tribute they named themselves The Ophelias, and their third album - "The Big O" - is a coupling of highbrow, psycho-sensual lyrics, and music flirting from garage rock to new age and back again...
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