WHATT FOUR Dandelion Wine 1967 SITAR FUZZ PSYCH 45 HEAR

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

WHATT FOUR "Dandelion Wine" b/w "You're Wishin' I Was Semeone Else"

Original 1967 pr0m0 45 on the MERCURY label

Vinyl:  Plays VG++

Man, I bet the draft killed 95 percent of the amazing music being created in 1967.  Here's another casualty of said draft.  The Whatt Four.  A super-talented four-piece from Riverside California who got off two KILLER singles between 1966 and 1967 and were then promptly cut short by the draft.  When they finally got out of the Army, it was 1969 and the musical landscape was quite different.  And not nearly as friendly for regional garage bands.  What's really a big shame about the Whatt Four is that they actually started to get national recognition - "Dandelion Wine" was only their second single and already they got a shot with a major label, Mercury, but immediately after the single came out, a few of the band members got drafted and, well, how could Mercury promote a band that was no longer around?  Double shame 'cuz this is probably one of the STRONGEST garage psych singles EVER - and I ain't just sayin' that 'cuz I'm selling it.  Judge for yourself - "Dandelion Wine" starts off with some great Eastern Indian droning sitar and a stoned sounding trippy psych vibe, occasionally stopping for a weird disembodied creepy Stephen King nursery rhyme chorus before a cosmic day-glo drum explosion brings us neatly back into magic carpet ride territory.  It's so darn good that it somehow relegated a first-class top-notch garage psych BEAST like "You're Wishin' I Was Someone Else" to B-SIDE!  With its driving "Paperback Writer" melody line and a fuzz guitar that doesn't let up for a SECOND, it's the kind of STUNNING garage pop single that ANY other band would've been thrilled to death to have as a plug side.  But here, amazingly enough, it takes a (slighty) second place to the all-out psychedelic freakout "Dandelion Wine."  But you win either way.  And in the case of the Whatt Four, war is definitely hell.

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SHIPPING AND PACKAGING

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