JAMES LOWE
let me get through to you / thick air

Electric Prunes vocalist c. '68, rare post-Prunes 45, virtually unknown. In an interview, James Lowe referenced this track: In a documentary about the Grateful Dead's 'Anthem of the Sun' album, the band remembered how difficult it was to work with such a straight guy [Dave Hassinger]. They said the thing that finally got Hassinger to throw up his hands, give up, and walk out of the studio, never to work with them again, was when they said they wanted the sound of "thick air" on one particular track. James Lowe: "Dave told me about it and I wrote an instrumental after the band broke up with that title because I thought it was a cool phrase. He told me they sat around for a couple of hours trying to capture it on tape......those were the Owsley days. Dave used to lay on the control room floor of American Studios and read the paper while we played tracks. That's not an inspiring production posture, perhaps he was doing the same with the Dead?"