The 8" limited edition, lathe cut vinyl single, sold out on 1st April. Here are the Stereo and Mono versions, direct from the masters, plus an unreleased bonus "Unto The Sun" Keyboard mix, featuring the incredible JJ Machuca, with even more Mellotrons, Theremins and a whole host of cool keyboards.
This is what Record Collector magazine had to say:
"Though Dave McLean's band, The Chemistry Set, used to play this song, they never slapped it onto wax, so he's done it himself, creating one of the biggest sounds ever committed to (imaginary?) tape without the use of a recording studio. Yes, this is bedroom psych at its finest; huge, ambitious, utterly charged and devastating. In two raging versions, the nigh-on orchestrated stereo mix and the phasers-on- stun mono variant, this is a makeover of Kaleidoscope's classic so vast, it was way beyond the technology available to its authors, if not their dreams. McLean sounds like he's floating through the cosmos, a cosmos full of rock'n'roll debris which he can use to deliver this truly grand affair. Mind and body blowing, and certainly not for the psychedelically fainthearted. Freak. Out there."
This is what Peter Daltrey of Kaleidoscope had to say:
"It's always puzzled me why our catalogue was not covered by other bands, this version is true to the original but Dave has put his own stamp on it. I particularly like the ending"
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