A strange, one-off, quasi exploitation album (originally released on GNP-Crescendo in 1967), featuring commendable covers of several garage/psych hits of the day, from the run through the Count Five?s title track to Sean Bonniwell & The Music Machine?s ?Talk Talk? ? presented with fuzz guitars and snarly vocals flying in all directions, to Kim Fowley?s ?The Trip? (the first rock song about LSD) to ? and The Mysterians? ?96 Tears? and Sky Saxon & The Seeds? ?Trip Maker? and ?Pictures and Designs.? With such great taste in obscure covers, it?s a good bet that there may be some truth to the rumors that Fowley, Saxon and/or Steppenwolf?s Mars Bonfire were involved. In fact, you?ll have a hard time convincing me that?s not the Sky man himself ripping through his Seeds? covers or Fowley grabbing the mic on ?96 Tears.?

Producers Hank Levine and Larry Goldberg contribute the far out, experimental, sound effects-laden original, ?Blood Beat,? which should come with a ?Caution: Bad Trip Ahead? sticker on it and there?s not much more to say about ?Love Special Delivery? than note that the label simply abbreviates it as ?L.S.D.? on the cover! And for trainspotters and lovers of the weird, check out the back cover (one of the highlights of the Fallout reissues is their exact re-pro album artwork), wherein GNP actually spells the name of the album wrong ? in mile high, impossible to miss letters! Levine and Goldberg also contribute the bad acid trip tale of ?Journey?s End,? with a swirling organ backing and frenzied guitar breaks! File this next to Bloodrock?s ?D.O.A.? for one of the heaviest death songs of the psychedelic era.

The ?group? were assembled formed by Michael Lloyd and Fowley, who together created The Smoke album for Sidewalk the following year. Lloyd was also an early member of The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and has since gone on to score films, win Grammys, Oscars, Golden Globes, and collect over 100 gold and platinum records for his troubles.

So, at its best, it sounds like your neighborhood garage band trawling through their older brother?s copy of the Nuggets box set. It?s an excellent period piece by an above average garage covers band, with suitably snarly, raspy vocals, fuzzed out garage solos, swirling organs ? what more could you ask for? So tappa tappa keg, call over the frat brothers ? there?s a toga party awaiting and here?s your soundtrack. As far as exploito, 60?s psych albums go, this is one of the best: a sloppy, rousing fun time, frat party album full of karaoke versions of some of your favorite nuggets! 8/10 -- Jeff Penczak (3 April, 2007)