Artist	Song
Bevis Frond	I can't get into your scene
Bevis Frond	splendid isolation
Bevis Frond	termination station grey
Bevis Frond	I've got eyes in the back of my head
Bevis Frond	lights are changing
Bevis Frond	purtle sline
Bevis Frond	ride the train of thought
Bevis Frond	wild mind
Bevis Frond	medieval sienese acid blues
Bevis Frond	reflections in a tall mirror
Bevis Frond	confusion days
Bevis Frond	into the cryptic mist
Bevis Frond	song for the sky
Bevis Frond	long journey into light
Bevis Frond	now you know

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I first met Nick Salomon aka Bevis, in 1986 at a record collectors fair in Glasgow. I did not know who he was then. I was browsing through the myriad boxes of records on display, and his collection for sale took my fancy. He had the usual psych/Prog sixties stuff, but advertised something called "It's a gas" and "Mind flowers". He saw me checking this self-made album cover out and told me it was a mix tape vols 1&2 that he had made up himself, containing great stuff like the nova local, electric prunes, mad river, ultimate spinach etc etc. At this point in my musical education, I had never heard of any of these bands, but he was charging ú5 for the two tapes and I grabbed them and wished him good luck, and went on my merry way home to check the tapes out. I loved them instantly, but forgot all about the guy at the stall. About six months later, I was perusing the latest edition of "record collector" magazine and saw an add for the first two originals of Country Joe and the Fish. I called the number, and got chatting to the guy about psychedelia, and I mentioned these two tapes which I had purchased months before. Yes, you guessed it! I was talking to Nick! Small world. I bought the next two volumes and many more classic psych from him over the next couple of years. We lost touch and I called him about two years later, and he told me he was making his own music, and the rest is history. This, as the title suggests, is culled from Bevis' first three albums on Reckless records "Miasma", "Inner marshland" and "Triptych". When I get some of his later stuff, I will make a mix representative of that period. This mix? I love all that far-out, trippy, psychy stuff, which Bevis plays so well. He is a helluva guitarist, and one of the main influences on my musical education. Enjoy!

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