Part One - THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND***

Shifting Sands/I Won’t Hurt You/1906/Help I’m A Rock/Will You Walk With Me/Transparent Day/Leilya/Here’s Where You Belong/If You Want This Love/’Scuse Me Miss Rose/High Coin

Part One was the commercial debut album from The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. Some critics complained that their songs were too short to be psychedelic and insufficiently innovative to be experimental.

“They were very inventive, solidly in the rock category, as their name would seem to indicate, very progressive. I always worried their sound was going to be rather cold, but I was wrong. Actually, their music comes off warm and friendly, even when the mood may be sad, dark, etc.”

“The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's debut Part One from 1967 only major flaw may have been the year of release. Since it would become a time of such superlative psychedelic music and timeless rock and roll, it seemed in retrospect a shame that for many this group got lost in the shuffle. If you want a slice of the times, they will satisfy you hunger with their blend of psychedelia, rock, folk and improvisational sounds from a legendary year in rock and roll.”

“Their Reprise label debut is something not to be missed. This is a psych driven mix of garage/pop and jangly folk rock, but with some bizarre, sinister element lurking in the mix that remains constantly elusive, always just out of sight, but whose presence cannot be denied.”

“The biggest problem with this album is the length of the songs. Just one is over four minutes long which clearly isn't enough if you want to hear some psychedelic jamming. You don't find any long jam band songs here. But the overall feeling is satisfying - not a total masterpiece but a very entertaining and nice record still.”

“Very nice album. It's got a good mix between really trippy psychedelic, and psych-pop. Help I'm A Rock is just one of those awesome messed-up trippy psychedelic songs, probably more of a weed song than an acid song. Shifting Sands is just a masterpiece, really well-made that sounds like Pink Floyd's middle stuff, same with Transparent Day. And there's also some psychedelic pop on here too. A very entertaining slice of vintage psych pop from the 60s.”