The Zodiac – “Aires – The Fire Fighter” (1967)

August 29, 2008 at 3:35 pm (Psychedelia)

This album, made by some of The Wrecking Crew session musicians (Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye, Emil Richards), came out in late 1967 on Elektra Records and is very rare. On the back of the record is states to play the album in the dark. As somebody said, the result was something like a cross-bred monster of Sunset Strip psychedelic rock and the kind of incidental music that you heard on the original Star Trek when aliens appeared on the screen.
Every song on the album is named after a Zodiac sign, with a subtitle also. Hard to tell if all of this was meant to be sincere or a goof.