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The Bachs - Out Of The Bachs (1968)

Track listing:
  1. You're Mine 2:11
  2. Pleasure Of Your Company 3:52
  3. Free Fall 2:39
  4. I See Her 1:37
  5. My Independence Day 3:21
  6. Minister To A Mind Diseased 3:09
  7. Tables Of Grass Fields 3:43
  8. Show Me That You Want To Go Home 2:07
  9. Sitting 3:33
  10. Nevermore 2:36
  11. Answer To Yesterday 3:47
  12. I'm A Little Boy 3:50
  13. That's The Way It Goes (Live Bonus) 3:10

Notes

This is a highly collectable garage-psych classic from Chicago, indeed only 100 copies were ever pressed so original copies inevitably change hands for megabucks. Some of the finest garage cuts include You're Mine, Free Fall and Minister To A Mind Diseased, whilst My Independence Day and the superb Tables Of Grass Fields are more psychedelic. Just 350 copies of the first reissue were pressed so this album is destined to remain rare, although the more recent 'Flash' reissue will help collectors find copies in the short term. Essential. Just dig that distorted fuzz guitar on Minister To A Mind Diseased. All twelve cuts are original Allison-Peterman compositions.

The band formed in the Winter of 1965 and stayed together for about three years. John Babicz:- "John Harrison and I are from Lake Forest, the others from Lake Bluff, just up the road. Harrison and Mike DeHaven had played in a high school group The Appollos."

After they split, John Babicz joined the army, where he spent the next 22 years. He and John Harrison now live in Tucson and still play golf together. Mike DeHaven is in Illinois and Allison Blake and John Peterman in Massachusetts.

I'm A Little Boy and Tables Of Grass Fields, from Out Of The Bachs, have also resurfaced on A Trip On The Magic Flying Machine.