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• Underground Communication is a German compilation album of psychedelic rock and progressive rock bands. 

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Underground Communication (Various Artists) (1970):  Underground Communication is a German compilation album of psychedelic rock and progressive rock bands.  Some of these bands are well known, though in keeping with the title, there are no familiar songs on Underground Communication.  The album includes two songs by Ted Nugent’s early band the Amboy Dukes, here called the American Amboy Dukes (since there is also a British band called the Amboy Dukes), “Flight of the Byrd” and “Mississippi Murderer”; both songs come from the Amboy Dukes’ second album on Mainstream Records, Journey to the Center of the Mind (1968).  The title song “Journey to the Center of the Mind” is a major hit for the Amboy Dukes, with “Mississippi Murderer” being the “B” side of the single.  According to the record label, two songs are by Janis Joplin and the Big Brother and the Holding Company – actually the songs are released under the name Big Brother and the Holding Company – “Call on Me” and “Women is Losers”; both songs come from the band’s first album Big Brother and the Holding Company (1967), also on Mainstream Records.  “In the Beginning” is taken from the little-known, Biblically-themed debut album by the British progressive rock band Genesis, From Genesis to Revelation (1969) that was made while the early bandmembers – Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips, and Mike Rutherford – were still in public school.  Genesis does not own the rights to From Genesis to Revelation, and the album is omitted from the box set Genesis 1970–1975 (2008) that covers the other albums released by Genesis while Peter Gabriel was in the band.  Curtis Knight is an R&B musician who crossed paths with Jimi Hendrix while he was based in Harlem; the two made several demos and singles together in 1965 before Hendrix left for England to form the Jimi Hendrix Experience.  “Fancy Meeting You Here” was released as a single and also appears on his album Curtis Knight (1969) that was evidently released only in Europe and New Zealand.  East of Eden – named for James Dean’s first film East of Eden (1955) – is an experimental progressive rock band that had a Top Ten single in 1970 called “Jig-a-Jig”.  The two songs on Underground Communication, “Northern Hemisphere” and “Have to Whack it Up” are, respectively, the opening tracks on their first two albums, Mercator Projection (1969) and Snafu (1970).  The End is a psychedelic-pop band whose sole album, Introspection (1969) was produced by Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones, who also co-wrote two of the songs.  During the Rolling Stones’ psychedelic period around the time of the release of their 1968 album Their Satanic Majesties Request, Bill Wyman seemed to be more tuned into the psychedelic vibe than the other Stones.  As an example, when “In Another Land” was released as the lead single from that album, the recording artist is shown as Bill Wyman, not the Rolling Stones; and “In Another Land” is the only song by the Stones with Bill Wyman on lead vocals and one of only three Stones songs that Wyman wrote.  Introspection was released nearly two years after the music was made, when psychedelia had become somewhat passé, but record collectors and rock critics now proclaim it among the best psychedelic rock albums to come from the U.K.  “Introspection Part II” is the closing track on Introspection.  Bulldog Breed is another obscure British psychedelic rock band that released one album, Made in England (1970); “I Flew” is taken from that album.  Touch is a well-regarded psychedelic rock band from Portland, Oregon that has a woman in the group, Paulette Butts.  Touch also made one album in a limited edition of just 100 copies, called Street Suite (1969); the album was reissued by Gear Fab Records in 1997 with bonus tracks, and the Spanish label Out-Sider Records also reissued Street Suite in 2012.  “Miss Teach” is on this album and was also released as a single.