Fifty Foot Hose - Ingredients 1967

These seven songs were recorded prior to the Caldron album, and are rawer in form and execution than the Caldron material. Four of them show up as bonus tracks on Big Beat's CD reissue of Caldron -- including the best number, the jazzy "Fly Free" -- but three do not. Of those three cuts, "Good Morning Girl" and "Low Down Mostly" are much more in the normal blues-rock-influenced San Francisco 1967 psychedelic vein than most Fifty Foot Hose material, while "War" is a more typical electronic free-for-all. It's of peripheral importance unless you're a psychedelic completist. Don't think you're done collecting Fifty Foot Hose if you have the Caldron LP and Ingredients, though, since the expanded Big Beat reissue of Caldron has some additional demos that are not on either of those releases. AMG.

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