The Crusade — “Psychedelic Woman”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — October 3, 2024

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

1,354) The Crusade — “Psychedelic Woman”

This ’67 A-side is an extra-heavy Alaskan “[c]rude garage-stomper” (Popsike, https://www.popsike.com/THE-CRUSADE-psychedelic-woman-7-Garage-Fuzz-Alaska/270699719673.html), “kinda dirty and nasty dripping fuzz and attitude” (A.J., https://garagehangover.com/crusade-psychedelic-woman-fade-away-golden-north/), “one of those singles that makes every fan of psychedelia smile. . . . [with t]wo fuzz guitars [that] lift the title into the intersection of garage and psychedelia”. (bufano, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/the-crusade/psychedelic-woman-fade-away/) “I can feel the fuzz through my bones. This song screams garage rock. Amazing guitar solos.” (thomassmith8721, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiaaIYEAE64)

The lyrics kill me. Popsike “love[s] th[e] tune, not just because of the great lyrics (‘she got big hips like a buffalo’)”. (Popsike, https://www.popsike.com/THE-CRUSADE-psychedelic-woman-7-Garage-Fuzz-Alaska/270699719673.html) Hey, that pales next to classic lines like “I tried so hard to satisfy She knows too much for me to try” and “She’s so far out she’s nearly gone”! Man, she must have been the deadliest catch!

Chris Bishop tells us:

The Crusade came out of Sitka, and their 45 was released on the Golden North label out of Juneau in April 1967 . . . . “Psychedelic Woman” . . . [It was] written by [band member] Agafon Krukoff, who had a previous 45 . . . in late ’66, a good version of “Walkin’ the Dog” backed with “Here I Sit in Alaska (Breaking the Legs Off Poor Little Self-Defenseless Crabs)” . . . . The band was [originally] called the Pribiloff Trio because Agafon was from the Pribiloff Islands out in the Alutians. . . . [Drummer] Dennis Murphy [recalls]”I was hired by Agafon in an audition for drummers when I was freshman in Sitka High School. One other guy tried and failed. These guys were all in college so it was real intimidating, to say the least.[“]

Here’s a ’85 cover by the Vibes:

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