The Inner Sounds of the Id - The Id (1967)

Jerry Cole started out playing with an early Glen Campbell group and quickly became a top-rate session guitarist, a tv band conductor, a producer, and a frequent member of the so-called wrecking crew groups that built west coast rock and pop in the 60s. (If I haven’t talked about it in a while, there’s a pretty great film about those wrecking crew musicians)

A producer named Arnold Sukonick wanted to create a studio-only outfit to record some psych pop that was influenced by the less-polished garage rock sound. He and Cole put together this band and recorded one record. That one album is quite a trip.

There’s a lot of pleasant blues and psych but it’s played rough and dirty throughout, making it a gritty and

Tracks I Liked

Wild Times - plays it straight with the psych pop, and does a great job of just being what it is

Boil The Kettle, Mother - a silly blues tune that grows into a Velvet Underground freakout