The Bleu Forest - A Thousand Trees Deep 1968

USA produced such a vast variety of garage bands, that were highly influenced by major known bands of the time like Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix & The Experience, and The Grateful Dead. Every little town in the US has been over-flooded with teenagers full of enthusiasm and ideas reflecting the electrifying times when everything suddenly seemed to be possible. One of the better local bands, that came and went with the '60s fading into plastic '70s was Ventura County’s Bleu Forest. So far only a handful of people heard these 1968 unreleased recordings, which were hidden in Caviness's (only surviving member) basement, and let me say this: What we have here is a lost psych-garage classic. A crossover between the groovy melodies of Moby Grape mixed with Steppenwolf heaviness. 

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