WAYNE VERSAGE Gentle On My Mind 1969 BIRCHMOUNT POP PSYCH LP A Passing Fancy
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He may seem square, because Birchmount didn’t give him a cool cover shot like labelmate Suzanne. Nor did he help matters by titling his lone album after the squarest song on it. But make no mistake, Wayne Versage’s GENTLE ON MY MIND is a soft pop psych tour de force, right up there with the likes of Del Shannon’s CHARLES WESTOVER album and Chad & Jeremy’s THE ARK and any other square-guy-turns-on record you may think of. It helps to know that Wayne used to sing in the Canadian garage band the Shays before that David Clayton-Thomas came along, so yeah, he’s certainly got some conversation fodder for the next time he runs into Al Kooper. It also helps to know that half of Canadian psych band A Passing Fancy helps out here – Jay Telfer and Greg Hambleton help out with songwriting contributions and may even play on the album, although we may never know for sure. See, Wayne’s getting less and less square already. You can draw quite a few Pete Frame Rock Family Tree lines to A Passing Fancy to Wayne Versage actually. The song “Island,” from their mega-rare album, shows up here on Wayne’s album too, and Wayne gives it a much cooler, laid-back drifty stoned vibe, with soft gentle hand drums and spooky organ, giving it the sense of stoned isolation and solitude you’d expect from a song called “Island.” A Passing Fancy’s Jay Telfer wrote the big baroque psych pop epic “Sitting On My Windowsill,” and Wayne gives it a dramatic Lee Hazelwood/Scott Walker acid crooner vibe. And then plunks on a big “Day In the Life” ending, with massively building crescendo at the expense of someone’s piano. Then there’s “Flower Generation,” written by A Passing Fancy’s Greg Hambleton, which was previously recorded by the Fringe, a Canadian garage psych band featuring a slightly younger Wayne Versage! It’s a great bit of floaty dream-psych with groovy flower power lyrics like “Flowers in her mind, she’s one of us.” Okay, there may be no connections on the song “Now That You’re Gone,” but no matter – it’s a positively SEARING pounding bit of garage psych with downright FILTHY distorto guitar and pounding rhythm – a stone cold psych-o-delic killer track on this rare, obscure and as yet unreissued album.
So the covers of “By The Time I Get to Phoenix”, “To Love Somebody” and “Gentle On My Mind” could be skippable, and detract somewhat from what COULD have been a Canadian popsike monster on par with, you guessed it, A Passing Fancy’s album. But Wayne Versage’s album is still 75 percent great, and if he managed to rope in a few housewives with the sappy pop covers, then blew a few Canadian teens’ minds when they dipped into mom’s record cabinet along the way, then more power to him. We should all be so square.
RECORD GRADE & DETAILS:
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RECORD GRADE............ VERY GOOD + + + + NEAR MINT
JACKET GRADE.............. NEAR MINT
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