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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Pacific Drift

(scott) another submission from link-fuhrer John N, this one I do recall hearing a while back, and it's prety cool, also hard to run down. From 1970, "Feelin' Free" from Pacific Drift, a long-forgotten, but completely enjoyable piece of West Coast psych/prog.......really do recommend this one for ya!
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from the CHERRY RED UK Records website:  Although 'Feelin' Free' was released to widespread indifference back in January 1970, the sole album by Manchester band Pacific Drift remains a sparkling, West Coast-influenced amalgam of post-psychedelic pop and early progressive rock, skillfully weaving wistful laments and riff-laden rockers into a fully cohesive whole. This first-ever authorised reissue of what is now a highly sought-after LP adds three tracks that appeared on the variant US release of the album as well as the band s version of the Spirit track Water Woman , only released at the time as a UK single. With some superb previously unpublished photos, new band quotes and master-tape sound quality, this long-overdue release is the first to assemble all known Pacific Drift recordings under one roof, and is unquestionably the definitive anthology of an unfairly neglected band.


FEELIN FREE-01 Plaster Caster's USA/02 Tomorrow Morning Brings/03 Feelin Free/04 Just Another Girl/05 Garden of Love/06 Norman/07 Grain of Sand/08 Greta the Legend/09 Going Slow/10 God has Given Me/11 Happy Days

3 comments:

  1. http://www6.zippyshare.com/v/DCjXnsVA/file.html

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  2. ooh, i like hidden surprises, too, including Spirit covers

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  3. Now that I'm listening to this, is it possible that KISS stole huge parts of Plaster Caster from these guys! It's very similar but they have it by 3-4 years.

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