BLUE BUS - YOUR MIND'S MOVING TOO FAST - NEW

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BLUE BUS - YOUR MIND'S MOVING TOO FAST - NEW

LP NEW (MINT), AND UNPLAYED

A teenage garage band who appear not to have released a 45 in their lifetime. One track, Black Candles, resurfaced on the Euro CD version of The Magic Cube in 1999, not long before the retrospective LP appeared on a German label.
Unless there's an insert missing, no historical background is provided except for a list of personnel against each track. From this it can be gleaned that they recorded these demos between 1967 and 1970 with a fluid line-up featuring several different combinations of the above in two's three's and four's. They were built around guitarist/vocalist Roman Oles, who appears on all cuts except the sole cover, Love's Signed D.C..
Their repertoire runs from surfy garage instrumentals through folk-punk and on to psychy-garage. I'd guess this band to be from South California: - there's a strong Byrds flavour in the minor-mood material and especially in the closing Jam #1, which could be uncharitably described as someone attempting Eight Miles High after a few pints too many; a nod in the direction of The Electric Prunes with some siren-like sustain and feedback; and the excellent People Looking At Me has a whiff of Love in the belligerent strumming and hispanic flavour.

LOCOMOTIVE - great opening instrumental, very Quicksilver Messenger Service, with a bit of the Dead at their early best and the Airplane as well. Very San
Francisco ...
THERE WAS A PLACE - more San Francisco vibes, only with vocals
BLACK CANDLES - I swear I've heard this song before, particularly in the melody of the guitar work ... very upbeat San Franciso folk rock with a little wah wah in there too
PEOPLE LOOKIN' AT ME - a folky ballad
THE THIRD LEVEL - quite Byrdsy / Love folk rock, with combo organ
CAN YOU STILL LOVE ME - a " jammy " type thing that actually doesn't do all that much fer me
FRIEND OF MINE - this is a great song ... a somewhat psychedelic folk rock thing with really kool trippy Binson Echo - Rec work on the guitar solo that reminds me a lot of late 60's Key West, Florida psychedelic band, Overseas Highway
BE WHAT YOU ARE - another folky thing that just doesn't quite do it for me
YOUR MIND'S MOVING TOO FAST - really great folky psychedelic garage rock with a neat fuzzy guitar solo
SIGNED DC - yup the Love song ... nice but not what one whould buy the LP for, and the vocals just aren't up to the drama of the song
BITS OF LIGHT - poppy sounding folk rock, but the vocals here are way buried
OLLY OLLY BLUES - Blue Bus attempt their own take on a " Signed DC " type song of their own and pull it off really rather well. This is actually a better performance than their cover of " Signed DC ". I just wish the
guitarist had done some of that explosive guitar work at the end of the song ( which coulda been a bit more up in the mix ) during the middle, cause the middle just kinda " goes on and on " with nothing happening
JAM #1 - a very " Byrdsy " and pretty neat sounding jam with the guitarist on a 12 string that sounds like the band attempting something like " Eight Miles High ", nice

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