Track: 21
Title: THE OPHELIAS DROP BY THE LIBRARY [live performance]
Authorship: Medford [Syd Barrett [5]]
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI / [Essex Music Inc, ASCAP]
Recording date: Various
Recording place: Various
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 03:53
First appeared on Thus spake Psilocybin.
Released 16 May 2021
[via multiple streaming services]
Leslie Medford : vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, trumpet
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar [1,2,5]
Edward Benton : drums [1,2,5]
Geoffrey Armour : drums [3,4]
Sam Babbitt : electric guitar [3]
Keith Dion : acoustic guitar [3]
James Juhn : electric guitar [4]
Particulars: Incorporates:
[1] Strange New Glasses
[2] The Golden Calf Played Rock’n’Roll – 2 December 1988, Marsugi’s, 399 S. First St., San Jose, CA, Muscrats opened.
[3] Pretty Green Ice-Box Eyes – 1986 rehearsal with Babbitt, plus Dion’s 12-string solo from 11 December 1986, Berkeley Square, with True West
[4] Southeast Asian American Blues – 18 August 1986, The I-Beam, 1748 Haight St., San Francisco, bill was Great Guns/Non-fiction/The Ophelias/Chris Isaak
[5] Lucifer Sam Catnip – 13 February 1988, Kennel Klub, 628 Divisadero, San Francisco, bill was Short Dogs Grow/The Ophelias/Opal
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