I've got a few albums by The Doors, Love and The Byrds on CD, although I do not listen to them very often. I remember Country Joe & the Fish and Barry Melton, who seemed quite radical at the time. Jefferson Airplane I came to recently, because I like Jefferson Starship with Mickey Thomas and Craig Chaquico, but I cannot get into them.
I found the first Manfred Mann's Earth Band album the weakest, because he was still evolving from the Chapter Three experiment into the pattern of soloing between himself on mini-Moog and Mick Rogers on guitar. The next album(s) was/were fantastic. Chapter Three, with an experimental brass section, did not work for me, despite Mike Hugg's involvement. Manfred Mann's Earth Band are one of the few groups whose bootlegs I like to collect. One of the reasons is because live versions of tracks from the first album, Like Captain Bobby Stout, are transformed into great performances. They really should have re-recorded them.
I am always open to suggestions, US. If you suggest some psychedelia, I will give it a listen.
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