Well, that's it for the Dose compilations. If there are more than the four you have seen here, you should let me know right away! Lyte is the oddball of the bunch, probably because the fine folks at Arf Arf Records were trying to differentiate it from its companion, An Overdose of Heavy Psych. The following two compilations, Hard and Wylde, tend to favor tracks more at home on the Heavy comp than the Lyte one. Of course Lyte doesn't mean "boring" - there is plenty of adventurous tracks featured here, some of them downright weird, and in the spirit of these series, lots of obscurity to go around, just without the cranked-up fuzz.
As always, I like seeing the geography behind the scene. I've also included some albums by these bands, which is always interesting as many of these groups were barely able to release just one single, let alone an entire album!
Michigan: The Misty Wizards (Detroit), Chris Carpenter (Detroit),
Illinois: The Capes of Good Hope (Chicago)
Massachusetts: The Freeborne (Boston), Masada,
California: The Id (San Diego), The Truth (Los Angeles), The Ballroom (Los Angeles), Teddy and His Patches (San Jose),
New York: The Tea Company (NYC), The Gurus (NYC), Childe Harold (NYC), The Crescent Six, White Room
Wisconsin: The Picture (Milwaukee)
Canada: The Mongrels (Winnepeg)
Arizona: The Wild Flowers (Phoenix)
Nevada: J.K. & Co. (Las Vegas)
Pennsylvania: The Chimps (a.k.a. The Thomas A. Electric Band)
No Clue: The Attic Sound, The Fourth Way, The Rock Revival
Albums:
The Freeborne: Peak Impressions (1968)
The Id: The Inner Sounds of the Id (1967)
The Tea Company: Come and Have Some Tea With... (1968)
The Chimps: Monkeys A-Go-Go (1967)
J.K. & Co.: Suddenly One Summer (1968)
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