THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
943) The Third Bardo — “Lose Your Mind”
Another snarling, swirling, garage psych classic by the Third Bardo* (see #97) — this one finally released decades after its time. Come listen, you have nothing to lose but your mind!
Per Blue Magoo:
[The Third Bardo was a] bloody excellent NYC band. Vocals that shriek, guitars that glide in and out of “another dimension” and a bass line that pulsates like a heartbeat, The Third Bardo had it all and then in a flash, they were gone.
http://tyme-machine.blogspot.com/2009/05/third-bardo-lose-your-mind-us-1967-ep.html?m=1
Richie Unterber gives some history:
The Third Bardo recorded just one single, “I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time,” which appeared on Roulette in 1967. . . . [and] is lauded by many collectors as one of the greatest 1960s garage/psychedelic tracks. . . . [A]lthough it got some airplay on the East Coast, it was pulled off the radio, lead singer Jeff Monn has recalled, because of perceived drug associations, although in fact there are no overt drug references in the lyrics. . . . the group laying down ominous psychedelia with Eastern-influenced melodies and odd sound effects. Six tracks were recorded at the Third Bardo’s one and only session, much of the material co-written by Rusty Evans, who had helped craft similarly strange stuff for the Deep. . . . [I]ust one [other] song, its B-side “Rainbow Life,” was released. . . .
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-third-bardo-mn0000570564
Cosmic Mind at Play adds:
Though short-lived, the band did play hip Manhattan clubs such as Arthur’s and Ondine, and appeared on Upbeat, the Cleveland-based syndicated television show. . . . After the Third Bardo broke up in 1967, Monn went solo and released an album for Vanguard in 1968 called Reality [see #98, 284], then changed his name to Chris Moon for The Chris Moon Group LP that came out on Kinetic in 1970.
https://cosmicmindatplay.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/classic-singles-97-the-third-bardo-im-five-years-ahead-of-my-time-rainbow-life-1967/
* Cosmic Mind at Play says that the band’s name was “taken by lead singer Jeff Monn from The Tibetan Book of the Dead and refers to the moment after death when the consciousness is reborn into a new body.”(https://cosmicmindatplay.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/classic-singles-97-the-third-bardo-im-five-years-ahead-of-my-time-rainbow-life-1967/)
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New to me but that’s what you do! Don’t you think there was so much hypocrisy going on then/forever at the corporate level? I mean Jeff Monn literally lost his opportunity while others were given a free pass to help sell psychedelic rock records.
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He had such promise.
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