VARIOUS – Blow My Mind! – The Dor, Era, Mira Punk & Psych Legacy (2024 Reissue) – 2LP – Vinyl

2LP -Black Vinyl.Now available on vinyl for the first time.

Three of the quirkier imprints from Hollywoods heyday in the mid-1960s were the record labels Dor, Era and Mira. Like most seasoned indie producers in that epoch, their owners Lew Bedell, Herb Newman and Randy Wood struggled to get to grips with the onslaught of rocknroll activity that followed in the wake of the British Invasion. But amongst each companys catalogue of R&B, pop schlock and novelty discs were a number of outstanding garage and proto-psych 45s that today are sought-after collectors items.

Blow My Mind!: The Dor-Era-Mira Punk & Psych Legacy collects together the best of this venerated repertoire in a power-packed set that also constitutes the first official reissue for many oft-bootlegged titles. Cuts like The Thief, Slander and Ill Blow My Mind would be expensive to acquire in their original, minutely-pressed incarnation. Here, with top-notch sound and extensive annotation, these totemic garage rock items shine brighter than ever.

There is the expected quota of attitude-laden classics such as My Babys Barefoot, Just Wanna Be Myself and the incredibly snotty So What!!, along with less heralded gems by bands such as South Hampton Story, The Puddin Heads, Yesterdays Tomorrow and The Search. An unexpected bonus is a superb unreleased cut by Hey Joe hitmakers The Leaves, along with off-beat garage-psych titles by Simon T Stokes, The Outlaw Blues and The Wrench.

Blow My Mind! is the natural sequel to the recent, well-received collection Lost Innocence and is an essential purchase for the dedicated garage head. Compiled by genre expert Alec Palao and originally released by Big Beat/ACE on CD only a few years back, it is now available on vinyl for the first time.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. My Babys Barefoot The Syndicate
2. Do Me A Favor The Leaves
3. Gotta Hold On The No-n-mees
4. The Thief The Motion
5. So What!! The Lyrics
6. Leave Me Behind South Hampton Story

Side B
1. Big City Blues Simon T Stokes
2. The Other Half Yesterdays Tomorrow
3. Worryin Kid The Regents
4. She Touched My Soul John Winfield Jr.
5. Slander Ty Wagner
6. Now You Say Were Through The Puddin Heads

Side C
1. They Cant Hurt Me The Lyrics
2. Ill Blow My Mind Spencers Van Dykes
3. Im Gonna Dance The Decades
4. The Day Is Hard The Wrench
5. Climate The Search
6. Just Wanna Be Myself The No-n-mees

Side D
1. Non-stop Blues The Outlaw Blues
2. Shame The Front Page & Her
3. Forget Me Girl The Bees
4. Shes Gone The Tormentors
5. Its No Use Basil & The Baroques
6. To Make A Lie Unknown Ar