Heroes and villains : the sound of Los Angeles 1965-68

"... Heroes & Villains, which comes with an info-packed and well-illustrated 78-page booklet, is worth your time and money. It includes seminal work from soon-to-be major artists, such as Gram Parsons ("Luxury Liner," by his International Submarine Band) and Linda Ronstadt ("New Hard Times," by her group the Stone Poneys). Also here are Ruthann Friedman's version of her own "Windy," which became a huge hit for the Association, and Bobby Jameson's "Viet Nam," which musically echoes Bo Diddley's eponymous R&B hit. Plus, the set features a healthy dose of noteworthy but little-known psychedelia-songs like the Velvet Illusions' "Acid Head" and "Hippy Town," Music Machine's "Point of No Return," and Clear Light's "Black Roses." These products of one of rock's most creative periods will take you back to another time and place. More importantly, they still sound good today".

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"Grapefruit's stellar new box set does much to resurrect those weird scenes from within the goldmine between 1965 and 1968, recontextualising the familiar into but one feather in a peacock's plumage. By the time Disc Three fades out with `Hippy Town' by Georgy and the Velvet Illusions, it's as though the mod mania of the swinging Sunset Strip never buckled to Manson's madness- as Z Man would no doubt triumphantly proclaim, "this is my happening, and it freaks me out!"".

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