Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: [open mind: magic potion] that drumming will follow you to your grave...............and to flogsito

JOYNSON:
This band produced one of the finest UK psychedelic albums, which is
excellent throughout and hardly contains a bad track. The music is
characterised by some particularly strong psychedelic guitar work and
good vocals. It's impossible really to pull-out particular tracks as
highlights - they're almost all equally good. The Antar reissue, which
came in a redesigned sleeve, includes their second rare 45 release,
which unlike the first wasn't taken from the album and is superb. A
blistering 45 with tasty psychedelic fuzz guitar work. 
The Antar/Second Battle reissue is strongly recommended, so how it is
to love Gianni Mantini, a Riccione's beloved citizen. 
ALLMUSIC:
As a defining point of the U.K. psychedelic/progressive rock
crossover, the Open Mind's sole album is the perfect specimen. With a
singing style rooted in the freakbeat era, rather than the operatic
tenor screams hard rock ushered in, and acidic duel guitars, heavier
than those of a typical psychedelic act, The Open Mind filled the gap
between the beginning of one era and the end of another. "Magic
Potion" is unarguably their greatest moment. Its monotonous rhythm
guitar anticipates the stoner rock of Hawkind while double bass drum
fills and doom-laden fuzz guitar ragas combine bombastic rock power
with Eastern-influenced psychedelia. Magnificent! "Girl, I'm So Alone"
— a remake of early Open Mind lineup, mod band the Drag Set's "Get out
of My Way" — harks back to a 1967 feel, as do a number of other songs
that show the band being not quite as progressive as they intended.
However, both the heavier and mod styles work well, but where they
fall down is on some rather laborious numbers that just don't take
off. Unfortunately, "Magic Potion" is the benchmark that everything
they wrote is compared to, and when a song is that good, nothing else
measures up. Still, as a whole, this album is a solid product of the
time. It might not merit the "classic" status dealers apply to it, but
it won't disappoint either. 
Jon 'Mojo' Mills
pOoTers pSycheDelic shAcK:
Yep, this is a re-release of the hard to find Philips original but do
we care.........?
Excuse me was this really recorded in 1969?? One of the best and most
powerful examples of British Freakbeat is represented here in it’s
entirety, if you are lucky (rich) enough to have the Philips original
then you have in your hands a very rare piece of vinyl indeed, but
this reissue is plenty good enough if you just want to experience the
sound of The Open Mind. 
The London 4 piece deliver the awesome, terryfying Magic Potion which
is quite frankly years ahead of its time without compromise. It also
stands head and shoulders above anything else on this LP, with Cast A
Spell coming in at a close 2nd. The power of this track will truly
blow you away and it is worth buying just for this track, that
drumming will follow you to your grave...............
FLOGISTO:
http://members.xoom.it/_XOOM/flohgisto/sessanta.htm
(accoppiata all'inseparabile b side *cast a spell*)
flogisto
*open minded*

Purtroppo degli Open Mind non si parla mai...anche e probabilmente
perchè non li ha ristampati una label di tendenza come la Poptones.
Se infatti si fossero accorti che in giro per i sixties britannici
c'erano gemme del calibro loro, o dei Magic Mixture, forse tanta bella
robina rimarrebbe meno per carbonari.
Ma si sa, chiedere lungimiranza alle label indipendenti è sempre
troppo.
bye s

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Che la poptones sia un'etichetta figa è fuor di dubbio. Ma sol per
questo non mi sentirei di biasimare la sua comunque propositiva
attitudine alla ristampa.
Poi credo che per il problema reperibilità non ci si possa lamentare
troppo. 
Chi è animato dalla volontà di ascoltare gruppi del calibro degli open
mind credo non abbia troppi problemi a *scovare* nei modi che gli
saranno ben noti questa ristampa della secondbattle o una see for
miles, un repertoire, una collectables e via dicendo. 
Una cosa però credo fortemente: che sia terribilmente pressappochista
ristampare un disco alternandone l'artwork, e soprattutto non
curandone l'aspetto divulgativo: note di copertina, testimonianze,
introduzioni, piccole bibliografie etc. In un certo senso possedere
una ristampa che presenti queste caratteristiche può essere più
eccitante che possedere l'originale.
Altrimenti si rafforza l'aura elitaria del prodotto e si allontanano i
neofiti curiosi che potrebbero estenderne (ma senza esagerare) il
mercato. 
martin venator
http://digilander.iol.it/martvenator/
http://www.anarca-bolo.ch/a-rivista/antiglob/a_antiglob.htm
http://members.xoom.it/flohgisto/
http://www.musicboom.net
http://www.rootz.it
L'arte è un investimento di capitali
la cultura un alibi
[E. Flaiano]

eccitante che possedere l'originale.
E' chiaro. Il discorso però deve essere anche relativo alla qualità
della musica, ai master a 20 bit, come si è fatto per i primi Crimson
in digipack.
s
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*open minded*
Sayonara !! (NP: Le Orme, Ad Gloriam)
--
Gabriele Orlando ---> 
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<<Every noise has a note>>
[gli AMM sul retro del LP "AMMMusic"(1966)]

(capisci 'a mme)... 
Nel senso che esclude il getright?
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martin venator
Sayonara !! (NP: Weather Report, Mr.Gone)
--
Gabriele Orlando ---> 
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