Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera ( bonus tracks)

In the Delirious Nights of Summer
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera belongs to the hidden sixties – that’s the music that existed in parallel universe to the one that was popular but it was a secret. “Colours of the rainbow appear on my wall colours turn to flowers then begin to talk the talking's getting louder, much more than I can stand and my mind goes wild like a little child who can never get to sleep” – “Dream Starts” is a genuine mushroom masterpiece and the entire album is what authentic psychedelia should be all about. “Lifting my mind is drifting I am very pleased to see the birds up in the trees knowing but never showing I could fly as high as these meeting my heart is beating. Move across the floor, it's never felt like this before feeling my senses reeling in our dreams I'll lock the door. Mary Jane, I've been looking all my life and now I've found you” – it sound like Mary Jane was some Christian saint martyr.

Colin Forster (guitar, 1967-68), Elmer Gantry [aka Dave Terry] (vocals, guitar, 1967-68), Richard Hudson (drums), John Ford (bass), Paul Brett (vocals, guitar, 1968-69), John Joyce (guitar, 1968-69)