The Eyes Of Mind - Tales Of The Turquoise Umbrella (1984)
In addition to the western-influenced, Neil Young-influenced, jangle-pop influenced, and Velvets influenced bands active in the early 80's in Los Angeles, there was also a significant garage rock revival happening in the midst, with many of the garage revivalists sharing venues and gigs with the Paisley Underground bands. While these garage revivalists aren't usually included in Paisley Underground lists and articles, they were an important component of the scene, and shared more similarities than differences. The Eyes of Mind were one of the best ones, and their album Tales of the Turquoise Umbrella has champions to this day, despite being obscure even in its day. The trippy and fuzzed "She Only Knows" is the standout; the band itself was short-lived and never made a follow-up.
A spinoff from L.A. psychpunk geniuses Three O'Clock, this band had an even more fey, marvellously twee sound that was so reminiscent of British art pop circa 1967 that we hooked them up with original British production wizard Mark Wirtz (Tomorrow, etc.) who brought all his Abbey Road skills to bear in creating this endlessly wonderful LP, the band's only surviving epitaph.
Members included Jamie Phelan (guitar, lead vocals) , Mark Kuhlman (keyboards, harmony vocals), Rick Tracy (bass) and Troy Howell (drums)
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1 Dream life 2 Alice 3 With you again 4 She only knows 5 Time 6 Yesterday is gone
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