Sunday, August 5, 2018

“Hurdy Gurdy Man” #5 8/3/1968

A slice of psychedelia that Donovan wrote while in India with the Beatles and other celebrities studying Transcendental Meditation. He considered offering the song to Jimi Hendrix (imagine what Hendrix could’ve done with this!) but Donovan’s producer, Mickie Most, flipped out at the idea. Just who actually played lead guitar on the session gets a little hazy. Some say it was Jimmy Page, some say Jeff Beck. The general consensus is that it was a studio musician named Alan Parker.


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