• Included in the Under Appreciated Rock Post List.
• THE HUMAN ZOO, a fine psychedelic rock band with a lot of connections to the legendary band called the Human Expression.
• The Original Facebook Post about THE HUMAN ZOO is at: Original Facebook Posts / Jul 2015 / THE HUMAN ZOO.

Martin Winfree

September 14, 2015

The Under Appreciated Rock Band of the Month for July 2015 (yes, July 🙁 ) is THE HUMAN ZOO, a fine psychedelic rock band with a lot of connections to the legendary band called the Human Expression. I also talk about early psychedelic rock songs from far and wide. See it here:

UNDER APPRECIATED ROCK BAND OF THE MONTH FOR JULY 2015: THE HUMAN ZOO

One day not so long ago, I was looking at the Wikipedia entry on “Eight Miles High” – a song like this has its own article that (among other things) talks about various versions and covers of the song – and there was a quote in the introductory section from someone at Rolling Stone saying that this was the first psychedelic rock song.  I changed the intro and wondered how the RS guy could have thought that.  My comment started a discussion with another Wikipedian about this; I noted that the 13th Floor Elevators were advertising themselves as a psychedelic rock band the year before, and he countered that this doesn’t mean they were playing true psychedelic rock songs. . . .
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