This is indeed Psycho Made In Sweden, because this is Swedish 60's psycho and it was in this group
that all the members in Made In Sweden once meet, Slim was playing the drums in the summer of 1965,
and he came back to the group again in July 1966 and staying to they quiting in June 1968,
Bosse came in Apil 1967, and even Georg sits in in the group in May 1968.
After Lea Riders Group Hawkey Franzén should play together with the ex Atlantic Ocean,
they called themself Jasons Fleece after their keyboard player Björn J:son Lindh.
But this music has nothing to do with the jazzrock that Made In Sweden make later on,
no this is more like the Psycho/Freakbeat/RB that came out in England in the mid 60's,
so you maybe could found some influence of both Kinks and Pretty Things in some of the songs.
01 - Lost Love (2:19)
02 - Got No Woman (2:57)
03 - But I Am And Who Cares? (2:37)
04 - Ain't It Strange? (3:26)
05 - Beloved Baby (3:28)
06 - The Situation's Rare (2:29)
07 - Key To The Riddle (3:33)
08 - Cashbox Lady (3:16)
09 - The Forgotten Generation (3:14)
10 - Got My Mojo Working (4:00)
11 - They Call Us Missfits (3:59)
12 - Ekhagen Rythm/Blues In Ess (4:39)
13 - I Just Wanna Make Love To You (9:07)
14 - Miss No-Name (5:17)
15 - Get Out Of My Life Woman (4:54)
16 - Riding The Blues (3:29)
Colective musicians
Hawkey Franzén - Lead Guitar, Accordion, Vocals
Sigge Ehlin - Harpsicord, Percussion, Guitar, Vocals
Åke Johansson - Guitar, Vocals
Lars Nilsson - Bass
Leif Alverstam - Bass
Bosse Häggström - Bass
Åke Engström - Drums
Slim Borgudd - Drums
This album recorded between May 31 1966 to February 19 1968 both studio and live.
And some notes by Mr. Negative Unterberger, and he can't really understand this wonderful music.
Review by Richie Unterberger
Most of the songs from their five singles, padded out to LP length with the addition of songs recorded for Swedish radio in the late '60s. "Dom Kallar Oss Mods" ("They Call Us Misfits" in English) is the hands-down highlight of the collection, which reveals the group as a spotty outfit whose talents didn't quite match their ambitions.
Biography by Richie Unterberger
The Lea Riders Group weren't the best Swedish band of the '60s, but in a field crowded by imitators of British Invasion acts, they were one of the most original. Their shining moment was their 1968 single "Dom Kallar Oss Mods," one of the standouts on the psychedelic volume of the original Pebbles series, with a grinding guitar riff and birdcall blasts of guitar distortion backing the garbled English-Swedish lyrics of failure and alienation. Nothing else they did was nearly up to that level of inspired psychedelic madness, although they did release five singles between 1966 and 1968 (all of their other songs were entirely in English). Guitarist and singer Hawkey Franzen wrote virtually all of their material, which pursued a jagged rock-blues line and some petulantly rebellious lyrics ("But I Am and Who Cares?" and "The Forgotten Generation" were a couple of his more memorable titles). A pretty strange group in the context of mid-'60s Sweden, they nonetheless didn't have the vocal or compositional talents of the best (if more conventional) Swedish rock bands. Their records weren't bad, but are now mostly notable for their curiosity value.
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