Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Lost In The Ozone (1971)

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”Lost In The Ozone” ?  Cult !

I remember very well when I bought this vinyl LP (at the time) in a Paris record shop a few months after it US release. I was barely twenty and had been immediately attracted by the name of the band and the fancy cover à la Freak Brothers (a famous counter-cultural comics). I ran home to play this strange object and was immediately blown up ! I still have this vinyl today, and listening to it again on CD I must say that fifty years after its release, this cult album sounds like it was recorded last week !

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen was founded in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a renowned university town, by pianist George Frayne aka Commander Cody, and moved to Berkeley, California, in 1969. Around Cody were Billy C. Farlow (lead vocals and harmonica), Bill Kirchen (lead guitar and trombone), John Tichy (rhythm guitar), Andy Stein (fiddle and sax), Steve 'West Virginia Creeper' Davis (pedal steel guitar), 'Buffalo' Bruce Barlow (bass) and Lance Dickerson (drums), a joyful bunch of solid instrumentalists.