one of my favourite beefheart tunes (of very many) is 'trust us' off the mirror man album which is an essential collection i reckon.

love Gong - magick brother (pre-hillage days) is a beautiful album, my favourite is Angels Egg...

and my favourite Incredible String Band tune is 'Maya'... be-you-tea-fool...

don't know Amon Duul, must check 'em out.

Another one of my favourite 60's groovy tunes is Count Fives 'Psychotic Reaction'...

and I fookin love John Fahey - look for the blind joe death stuff or the yellow princess album - really beautiful purely acoustic pluckiness...

and Love 'Forever Changes' is one of the most perfect albums ever made in my humble onion.

tough call...i can see i am not alone having a tough time with coming up with one favorite band and one favorite song.

favorite artist/band: i am trying to look into the past and objectively select what i have played the most of through the years and still enjoy. it is pretty even between van morrison, grateful dead, and the moody blues. a part of me wants to name "special music" that is more obsure that i really love, but i have logged so many thousands of hours with each of these three.

favorite song: mountains of the moon. this was a grateful dead song (righto jameseye, previously the warlocks) that was an "okay" song on their studio album aoxomoxoa. i caught my first dead show on 4/22/69 at the tea party in boston. there were maybe 200 people there at the most, i remember because the dose did not kick in until they started tuning. i fried so hard that i did not really know where i was or what i was doing but i knew it was aawwwll good. i went to the show barely being a fan. i dug cream puff war and morning dew and that was about it. (american beauty and workingman's dead were not to happen for another year). i was so immersed in the sound and my inner experience that the sound was not seperate from me. i mean i was not even identifying my experience as a musical one. it was 20 years later that a dead tour head taper friend gave me a copy of a bootleg from that show. OMG i cannot describe what it was like to hear that. it was like a long vivid past life experience i was having. that version of mountains of the moon still takes me into this irie place in a magical mossy forest with dewdrops glistening all over the moss and magical fairies and wood elves all around. it is accoustical, very slow, jerry's voice is so tender in this recording, so much devotional feeling in it. i was 40 when i got that tape (16 years ago) and i had a girlfriend who was 25. brent & i shroomed one night early in our relationship. she said she did not like the dead but agreed to listen to this recording. well we listened to dead the rest of the night. and after that she started buying tickets for airlines and dead shows.

Canned Heat. "Going up to Country" always puts a smile on my face. Happy listening.

..thanks to technology, this can be had with some hunting for a download: It is a specific moment that might translate better to someone who's from the Pacific Northwest. Dunno. The Dead had shows commemorating their decades in the biz-stemming from being a bluegrass championship ensemble in '62. from '72 thru '92 they scheduled shows every ten years in Veneta Oregon-just west of Eugene. The first-and only one that 'worked' was arguably their finest hours ever. 8/27/72 featured three sets ---a formitable Dark Star, heavy on Lesh's bass, gradually phased into a GORGEOUS harmonizing on the Merle Haggard standard "Take Me Back Home". The oppresive heat of that day was balanced by the fun of a Ken Kesey "Field Trip". The segueway ended up on a Dead box set a few years back.
I also had to struggle with a "Favorite"- and have also loved the Moodies. Saw the MB and the Airplane/Starship(next gen.) w/ Paul and Jack double billed in West. Wash. state about a decade ago. Wonderful music. Searching for such great moments remains a motivator in my life. See what you started, kid?

this took me so long to think about but i finally decided on the song maumau from jefferson starship's album blows againest the empire. hey what do you know about the planet earth rock n roll orchestra?

The Kinks did it right.

I have lots....as you all do but the song that comes to mind is "Coming Back To Me" - Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow