日本のロック・ファンにはツェッペリンとかドアーズとかザ・フーとか、ハードかつソリッドで挑発的な感じじゃないと「ロック」と認めない風潮があるけれども、１９６７、８、９年ころのロックはバブルガム・サウンドほどではないにせよ、英米ともに押しなべてポップな処理の楽曲が多かった。それはいっとき流行したサイケデリック・ロックにおいても例外ではなく、売り上げやチャート上昇を優先するバンドにとってはむしろ当然の方向性だった。
以下に例示する２つのバンドは流行のサウンドと いかにものイメージを戦略的に取り入れつつ、間然するところがない、上出来なロック／ポップの作品を残している。
ＣＤでリイシューされるのも、そうした部分が再評価されているからだろう。
Jokers Wild
Jokers Wild were an English blues rock band formed in Cambridge. The line-up included guitarist David Gilmour and saxophonist Dick Parry. Gilmour went on to join the band Pink Floyd and Parry went on to become a session musician, playing on three Pink Floyd studio albums and one live album. Parry also went on to join Gilmour’s 2006 solo tour.
＜Jokers Wild （band） – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia＞
Jokers Wild – All I See Is You（1967）
２度目の引用。
Jokers Wild – I Just Can’t Explain It（1967）
シングル “All I See Is You” のＢ面。
Jokers Wild – Peace Man / Tomorrow（1969）
Jokers Wild - Liquid Giraffe
レーベル: Shadoks Music - SHADOKS MUSIC 159
フォーマット: CD
国・地域: Germany
リリース: 2013
ジャンル: Rock
スタイル: Garage Rock
収録曲：
01 Peace Man
02 Tomorrow
03 The Grass Is Greener
04 I’m On My Way
05 Stranger
06 Copper Penny
07 I See You
08 Witch
09 American Dream
10 Hard Road
11 River
12 Have You Ever Loved Somebody
13 Dissatisfied
14 Good TimeBonus tracks
15 Echo
16 Because I’m Free
17 All I See Is You
18 Park MusicLonnie Knight — guitar, vocals
Denny Johnson — bass, vocals
Pete Huber — drums, vocals
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Greg Springer — keyboards, vocals （08, 15-17）
Bill Jordan — guitar, vocals （15-17）
https://www.discogs.com/ja/Jokers-Wild-Liquid-Giraffe/release/5113916
Jokers Wild – Liquid giraffe（1967-69）
Lost And Found
Artist Biography
This US group was formed in Houston, Texas in 1965 and originally known as the Misfits. The quartet – Jimmy Frost （lead guitar）, Peter Black （guitar/vocals）, James Harrell （bass）, and Steve Webb （drums） – enjoyed a residency at the city’s Living Eye Club and became friendly with the Thirteenth Floor Elevators following frequent trips to Austin. The latter’s guitarist, Roky Erickson, introduced Lost And Found to the International Artists label, a debt they repaid by including the Elevator’s ‘Don’t Fall Down’ on Everybody’s Here. Although pleasant, the album lacked incisiveness, but a later single, ‘When Will You Come Through?’/’Professor Black’, showed a greater sense of purpose. Lost And Found split up in 1968, although Black and Harrell resurfaced in stablemates Endle （latter Potter） St. Cloud.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lost-found-mn0000207615
“The （So Far） Definitive Edition Of EVERYBODY’S HERE……”
By John H. McCarthy on April 5, 2016
Formed in 1965 as The MISFITS （they should’ve copyrighted the name!）, LOST AND FOUND was forged in the same rarefied Houston heat as THURSDAY’S CHILDREN and THE RED CRAYOLA, toiling in the same venues until their burgeoning popularity landed them gigs at the Texas town’s top hot spots, La Maison and Love Street. They were also witnesses to the birth of the 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS at Austin’s Jade Room, which made an indelible impression on their musical psyches. Like the ELEVATORS, the band （Peter Black-guitar, vocals, Jimmy Frost-lead guitar, James Harrell-bass & Steve Webb-drums） made their own Californian foray, but instead of influencing other bands, LOST AND FOUND soaked up the tight vocal harmonies and guitar jangle of their West Coast compadres. Welcomed back by their hometown fans during a Houston Living Eye Club residency, the band earned the distinction of being the first busted for LSD in Texas, saved only by the confusing or non-existent laws governing the mind-expander. The bust did result in the creation of the LOST AND FOUND handle, so they wouldn’t be confused with those bad-boy MISFITS! Signed to International Artists, the resulting （and only） album,’EVERYBODY’S HERE’ once again beggars the question, what WERE those Texas boys breathin’ down yonder? Another great slab of real psychdelica, it stands proudly alongside and holds it’s own among the amazing quintet of International Artists’ initial releases. The opening track “Forever Lasting Plastic Words” （sometimes mistaken as the album’s title） shows off their West Coast harmony influences on it’s paisley sleeve, somewhat reminiscent of MOBY GRAPE, followed by the Dylan-esque title-cut. A WHO-type intro ushers in “There Would be No Doubt,” a track that would feel at home on’A QUICK ONE.’ A great cover of the ELEVATORS’ “All Fall Down,” precedes the first of two instrumentals, “Zig Zag Blues,” probably an ode to the Summer Of Love necessity. A tip of the electric jug weaves through “Let Me Be,” as does a propulsive Jack Cassidy-like bass. After the driving pop-psych of “I Realize” the band performs what’s arguably the only stinker in the bunch, a corny two-step named “2 Stroke Blues.” No amount of stroking can make this strange teen ballad explode. Luckily the band ends the original album’s tune-stack with two climaxes, “I’m So Hip To Pain” features a truly psychedelic guitar duel between Black and Frost in it’s tasty center, while the over seven minute album closer “Living Eye” takes us on an almost eight-mile journey. It’s another impressive stew of 12-string psych, with shades of “I’m A Man” peeking through it’s Byrds-eye journey……
https://www.amazon.com/Everybodys-Forever-Lasting-Plastic-Words/dp/B00BKO91FA
Lost & Found – Forever Lasting Plastic Words（1967）
Lost & Found – When Will You Come Through（1968）
Lost And Found - Everybody’s Here
レーベル: Charly Records – SNAX608CD
フォーマット: CD, Album, Reissue, Limited Edition, Remastered
国・地域: UK
リリース: 2009（Original 1968）
ジャンル: Rock
スタイル: Psychedelic Rock
収録曲：
01 Forever Lasting Plastic Words
02 Everybody’s Here
03 There Would Be No Doubt
04 Don’t Fall Down
05 Zig Zag Blues
06 Let Me Be
07 Realize
08 Stroke Blues
09 I’m So Hip To Pain
10 Living EyesBonus Tracks -Mono-
11 When Will You Comr Through
12 Professor Black
13 25 MPHDesign [Cover] – Flash Graphics
Engineer [Recording] – Frank Davis
Liner Notes – Lelan Rogers
Producer – Lelan Rogers
https://www.discogs.com/ja/Lost-And-Found-Everybodys-Here/release/3948749
Lost And Found – Everybody’s here （1967） [2009 Remaster]