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February 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 155 – Brendon Pongia

Welcome to episode 155 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Brendon Pongia is a former TV host and […]
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December 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 21: Moby Grape – “Moby Grape”

Funny that I’d never heard this album, only in that I love Skip Spence, the mythology – that amazing solo album of his and so usually, when something like that comes along you work your way back through everything – and yes I’d heard of Moby Grape and heard some of their stuff, and Jefferson […]
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December 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 20: Country Joe and the Fish – “Electric Music For The Body And Mind”

It’s getting a bit stuck-record, I know, but things will change as we move into the seventies, eighties and nineties – but so far I’m liking pretty much everything I hear. And so it is with this album – and sure, I knew of Country Joe And The Fish, but really only from Woodstock and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums Challenge, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1967, Country Joe and The Fish, Country Joe McDonald, Electric Music For The Body and Mind, Hippie, San Francisco, Sixties, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 20, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 20: Country Joe and the Fish – “Electric Music For The Body And Mind”, The Fish, West Coast ·

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June 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 67 – Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

Welcome to episode 67 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with the poet, historian and academic Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.
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January 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Start of the San Fran Sound: The West Coast Bay Area Hippie-Dippie 1960s

British rock critic Nik Cohn, writing with an outside perspective, put it simply when looking at the San Francisco Sound: “In America, acid really mattered”. Using the proceeds from his novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, the writer Ken Kesey initiated the Acid Tests; bankrolling experiments conducted by Dr. Timothy Leary – parties fuelled […]
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