5013929192300

Deviation Street: High Times In Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975 - 3CD Clamshell Box Set

Various Artists

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CRSEGBOX123

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Release Date:  24 February 2023

Label:  Grapefruit / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929192300

Genres:  Rock  70's  

  • Description

    • Most comprehensive overview yet of the Ladbroke Grove-based late 60s/early 70s freak scene.
    • Four-hour anthology of locally based acts featuring much previously unreleased or rare material.

    Now widely acknowledged as Albion's equivalent of the Haight-Ashbury underground scene in San Francisco, Ladbroke Grove in West London developed into the epicentre of the late 60s British counterculture movement.

    Cheap rents had already attracted beatniks, bohemians and the Windrush generation of West Indian immigrants, and they were joined as the decade wore on by a motley crew of musicians, freaks and anarchists as the home-grown hippie sub-culture found a spiritual and physical base.

    Also housing the burgeoning underground press and various rock band management agencies, the area around Ladbroke Grove, Holland Park and Notting Hill Gate spawned its own music scene that included Hawkwind, Quintessence, Edgar Broughton Band, Skin Alley, Third Ear Band and High Tide.

    Featuring all of the above acts, ‘Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975’ is the most comprehensive overview yet of the West London freak scene, incorporating such integral local movers 'n' shakers as Mick Farren and The Deviants, Twink, Steve Peregrin Took, Lemmy, Sam Hutt, Hapshash, Davey Graham, Graham Bond and Carol Grimes.

    Alongside Pink Fairies, Trees, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Quiver, Uncle Dog, Steamhammer, Mighty Baby, Family, Pretty Things, Junior's Eyes and Cochise, the collection incorporates key cuts from the local immigrant community (Mataya, Noir, Ram John Holder).

    With a lavish 48-page booklet and four hours of music that features much previously unreleased and rare material (including the first home-made demo recording by Roxy Music, who had their protracted genesis in the area), ‘Deviation Street’ is an essential purchase for anyone interested in the late 60s British underground.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. NOTTING HILL GATE (single version) - Quintessence
      • 2. HURRY ON SUNDOWN - Hawkwind Zoo
      • 3. BLIND TO YOUR LIGHT - Carol Grimes & Delivery
      • 4. HALLUCINATIONS - Tomorrow
      • 5. BLACK LEATHER GLOVES - Bodast
      • 6. SUBWAY (SMOKEY POKEY WORLD) - The Tickle
      • 7. LONG TIME COMING - Village
      • 8. PAINTED LADY - Cochise
      • 9. COLD EMBRACE - Sam Gopal
      • 10. I'M A STRANGER - The Action
      • 11. LIVING IN SIN - Skin Alley
      • 12. CHANGES* - Mataya
      • 13. SICKLE CLOWNS - The Pretty Things
      • 14. SONG FOR LOTS - Family
      • 15. GALACTIC ZOO - Kingdom Come
      • 16. POWIS SQUARE CHILD - Roger Bunn
      • 17. THE ANSWER - Peter Bardens
      • 18. LOOKING FOR TIME - Bond and Brown
      • 19. WHICH DREAMED IT - Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup
      • 20. OUT DEMONS OUT - Edgar Broughton Band

      Disc 2

      • 1. ALL IN YOUR MIND (single version) - Stray
      • 2. BLANKMAN CRIES AGAIN - High Tide
      • 3. TURN AROUND - Steamhammer
      • 4. AFTA - Davey Graham & Holly
      • 5. SLIPSTREAMS - Mighty Baby
      • 6. SUN MUSIC - Skin Alley
      • 7. GLAD I CAME AROUND - Quiver
      • 8. A MIND BLOWN IS A MIND SHOWN - Hapshash and the Coloured Coat
      • 9. WE TOOK THE WRONG STEP YEARS AGO - Hawkwind
      • 10. SLUM LORD - The Deviants
      • 11. NOTTING HILL EVICTION BLUES - Ram John Holder
      • 12. CONCRETE LINE UP - Ron Geesin
      • 13. SAD SONG FOR WINTER - Chimera
      • 14. VELVET TO ATONE - Trader Horne
      • 15. APRIL AFFAIR - G. F. Fitzgerald
      • 16. RINGS OF FORTUNE - Tyrannosaurus Rex
      • 17. MY MIND - The Misunderstood
      • 18. IF* - Rosemary
      • 19. UNCLE HARRY'S LAST FREAK-OUT - Pink Fairies

      Disc 3

      • 1. CIRCUS DAYS (single version) - Junior's Eyes
      • 2. NOTHING SPECIAL - Trees
      • 3. 10,000 WORDS IN A CARDBOARD BOX - The Aquarian Age
      • 4. COSMIC SURFER - Quintessence
      • 5. THE SYSTEM - Noir
      • 6. VERY FINE...FAR AWAY - Third Ear Band
      • 7. STILL YAWNING, STILL-BORN - Shagrat
      • 8. 2HB (demo version) - Roxy Music
      • 9. ONE HAND CLAPPING* - Rosemary
      • 10. OLD HAT - Uncle Dog
      • 11. SUMMERTIME BLUES - Mick Farren
      • 12. THE RIGHT STUFF - Robert Calvert
      • 13. KINGS OF SPEED - Michael Moorcock & Deep Fix
      • 14. LOST JOHNNY - Motörhead
      • 15. SILENT TELEPHONE - The 101'ers
      • 16. I'M A FREE MAN - Mataya
      • 17. LADBROKE GROVE BLUES - Ram John Holder
      • 18. WITCHDOCTOR - Ginger Johnson & His African Messengers
      • 19. DEVIATION STREET - The Deviants