Haymarket Riot - Trip on Out / Something Else (single). 1968 USA-Oklahoma

Wow. Going through these obscure psych era US singles can be revelatory. So it turns out Haymarket Riot are from Enid, Oklahoma. Now there's the center of the psychedelic universe eh? My old man was in the laundry business, and one of his top clients was in Enid, so I went there a lot more than your average big city kid. I'll just put it this way - psychedelic is not the first thing one thinks of when in Enid. 'Trip on Out' is great - very much in the spirit of the era. There's a killer fuzz riff, followed by a great solo. 'Something Else' kind of blows honestly. Apparently they only had one song when it was time to record, so they put this together in 15 minutes. And it sounds it too. Lost opportunity.

'Trip On Out' is part of the above compilation called 30 Seconds Before the Calico Wall!

10/18/18 (new entry)