197) West Coast Experimental Pop Art Band — “Help, I’m a Rock”
Mark Deming says that:
“[WCEPAB was o]ne of the more offbeat acts to emerge during the psychedelic era . . . eclectic and ambitious enough to live up to their slightly clumsy moniker, capable of jumping from graceful folk-rock to wailing guitar freakouts to atonal, multilayered, avant-garde compositions at a moment’s notice . . . .”
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-west-coast-pop-art-experimental-band-mn0000482572/biography
“Help” was a ‘67 single, a zany cover of a Frank Zappa song, that “flung them into freakier pastures”. (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/album/part-one-mw0000010251)
Here is Zappa’s original:
198) Focal Point — “Lonely Woman”
Another lovely song by Focal Point — the band did no other kind.
199) Please — “Seeing Stars”
Please starred Peter Dunton (ex-Neon Pearl, the Flies and Gun and later in T2). The Aquarian Drunkard says that:
“Almost everything about the life and career of Peter Dunton is a little bit hazy. Part of that is due to his ‘chronic lack of success’ . . . . [He] dabbl[ed] in mildly notable late-’60s psych groups . . . . By far his best work from this time came with the group Please, who languished, failing to release any recordings until Acme started doing so in the late ’90s. . . . Seeing Stars[, the compilation album, was] a surprise stunner of organ-driven, hyper-melodic psych-pop. . . . [It] in particular makes it clear just how much of a shame it is that Dunton wasn’t able to reach more listeners in his time . . . .”
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/04/04/please-seeing-stars/
Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! / Off the Charts: 60s Rock Revelations 