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The Freak Scene was never a "group" in the sense that <a href="spotify:artist:3WrFJ7ztbogyGnTHbHJFl2">the Beatles</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:22bE4uQ6baNwSHPVcDxLCe">the Rolling Stones</a>, or <a href="spotify:artist:1PCZpxHJz7WAMF8EEq8bfc">the Byrds</a> were a group -- that is, they didn't really function as a group or play as one. In fact, they had slightly more in common with <a href="spotify:artist:320EPCSEezHt1rtbfwH6Ck">the Monkees</a> or, more correctly, perhaps the original <a href="spotify:artist:2IU5UBup85LmAXh5U36DeC">Grass Roots</a>, in the sense that the Freak Scene was whatever its producer-songwriter had in mind.
The Freak Scene was a studio-created ensemble, the brainchild of Rusty Evans, a one-time Greenwich Village folkie turned producer. <a href="spotify:artist:4jXfFzeP66Zy67HM2mvIIF">Evans</a> had crossed paths with <a href="spotify:artist:74ASZWbe4lXaubB36ztrGX">Bob Dylan</a> and Felix Pappalardi early in his career, before they went their separate ways, and he ultimately became a producer and dreamed up the Freak Scene as a project. <a href="spotify:artist:0SOCskFcUcLj7Ful8w8KrL">David Bromberg</a> was the first musician tapped for the "group," a sort of in-house psychedelic band created to record one album, Psychedelic Psoul. The one album to their credit is a period piece, an effort at making topical psychedelic music at a time when Columbia had nobody (other than <a href="spotify:artist:1PCZpxHJz7WAMF8EEq8bfc">the Byrds</a> and, in his own way, <a href="spotify:artist:4LOM7NzyrZvlGSYPFDsnTk">Dylan</a>) who was really good at making those sounds. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
The Freak Scene was a studio-created ensemble, the brainchild of Rusty Evans, a one-time Greenwich Village folkie turned producer. <a href="spotify:artist:4jXfFzeP66Zy67HM2mvIIF">Evans</a> had crossed paths with <a href="spotify:artist:74ASZWbe4lXaubB36ztrGX">Bob Dylan</a> and Felix Pappalardi early in his career, before they went their separate ways, and he ultimately became a producer and dreamed up the Freak Scene as a project. <a href="spotify:artist:0SOCskFcUcLj7Ful8w8KrL">David Bromberg</a> was the first musician tapped for the "group," a sort of in-house psychedelic band created to record one album, Psychedelic Psoul. The one album to their credit is a period piece, an effort at making topical psychedelic music at a time when Columbia had nobody (other than <a href="spotify:artist:1PCZpxHJz7WAMF8EEq8bfc">the Byrds</a> and, in his own way, <a href="spotify:artist:4LOM7NzyrZvlGSYPFDsnTk">Dylan</a>) who was really good at making those sounds. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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