Today, It’s Psychedelic Baby magazine shared Karen y Los Remedios feat. Z.A.M.P.A’s stunning version of “Morning Sun” off Dave Bixby’s 1969 album Ode to Quetzalcoatl. You can read all about it and hear the chill-inducing track here. Thanks to It’s Psychedelic Baby for sharing!
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DAVE BIXBY ANNOUNCES HARBINGER ORCHESTRA COMPILATION ALBUM. HEAR THE FIRST SINGLE, THE SONIC DAWN’S COVER OF “666” OUT NOW.
DAVE BIXBY’S HARBINGER ORCHESTRA ALBUM FEATURING FIRST NEW STUDIO RECORDINGS FROM DAVE HIMSELF IN OVER 50 YEARS AND NEW ARTISTS COVERING HIS PSYCH FOLK CLASSICS AVAILABLE FALL 2021 PRESSED BY GUERSSEN DISTRIBUTED BY HARBINGER RECORDS LISTEN TO SONIC DAWN SINGLE – OUT 6.4 On June 4th, Harbinger Records will release “666” by The Sonic Dawn, aContinue reading “DAVE BIXBY ANNOUNCES HARBINGER ORCHESTRA COMPILATION ALBUM. HEAR THE FIRST SINGLE, THE SONIC DAWN’S COVER OF “666” OUT NOW.”
An Interview with Klemen Breznikar, Founder of It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine, by Jiah Carron
It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine is an invaluable resource for old and new “out” music. Across hundreds of interviews, reviews and features, founder Klemen Breznikar has created a treasure trove for anyone looking to dig deeper. In 2011, Klemen published an interview with Dave Bixby that provided some background on Dave’s two albums. After providing tonsContinue reading “An Interview with Klemen Breznikar, Founder of It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine, by Jiah Carron”
Bandcamp Daily: Hidden Gems: Dave Bixby, “Ode to Quetzalcoatl”
As a teenager, Bixby experimented heavily with LSD before burning himself out on the drug. With just an acoustic guitar and a newfound belief in God, he began writing songs that captured this limbo. The resulting album ricochets back and forth between hope and despair, regret and wisdom—a vast personal shift captured in real time,Continue reading “Bandcamp Daily: Hidden Gems: Dave Bixby, “Ode to Quetzalcoatl””
Everything is Stories: Current with the Past
“Originally released in 1969, Dave Bixby’s Ode to Quetzacoatl is considered an underground classic in the psychedelic folk genre. With tracks such as “Drug Song” and “666″, the album remains dark, revelatory, and spiritual even in the 21st century. For years, rumors of Bixby’s disappearance and death spread amongst listeners. No one knew his story or his whereabouts or what influenced him toContinue reading “Everything is Stories: Current with the Past”
Far Off Sounds: God’s Singing Man
“In 1966, Dave Bixby burned out on LSD and went temporarily out of his mind. What pulled him back was his encounter with a wandering spiritualist named Don Degraff. Together they formed a prayer group and played music. The group rapidly grew into a Christian cult, and Dave’s music became its trademark. 40 years later,Continue reading “Far Off Sounds: God’s Singing Man”
It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine: David Bixby interview about ‘Ode to Quetzalcoatl’ and ‘Harbinger’
“I performed songs every Tuesday night at group meetings. These meetings grew to 300 people. I was asked many times to record an album. I selected twelve songs out of thirty I had written. Each song supported the next song in theme. The Quetzalcoatl story of a Christ like man walking the America’s captivated myContinue reading “It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine: David Bixby interview about ‘Ode to Quetzalcoatl’ and ‘Harbinger’”
The Rapidian: Second Coming: The Story of David Bixby – Part 3
David Bixby was himself a ghost of a figure, that is until a reporter from Los Angeles tracked him down in 2006. Now the real life Bixby sits in front of a crowd, most of whom weren’t even born when he wrote the songs they love. Everyone is wondering how this is going to turnContinue reading “The Rapidian: Second Coming: The Story of David Bixby – Part 3”
The Rapidian: Second Coming: The Story of David Bixby – Part 2
On his way home from a concert late one snowy, winter night Bixby’s car died and, unable to restart it, he began to walk home. He remembers, “I was ready to just sit down in a snowbank and just go to sleep, just give it up; I was pretty depressed. And I experienced a person,Continue reading “The Rapidian: Second Coming: The Story of David Bixby – Part 2”
The Rapidian: Second Coming: The Story of David Bixby – Part 1
“Bixby has been tracked down by the community that gushed over his long-lost record on Internet forums and in record-collecting books. Ode to Quetzalcoatl and another even more rare record called Second Coming by the band Harbinger (basically Bixby backed by a few others) have been re-pressed by the record label Guerssen from Spain. Big Pink Music from Korea is looking to repressContinue reading “The Rapidian: Second Coming: The Story of David Bixby – Part 1”
PopMatters : Dave Bixby: Ode to Quetzalcoatl / Harbinger: Second Coming Review
“For collectors of the downer/loner folk movement of the late ’60s, mostly recorded by regional artists on private press labels, the solo debut from Michigan garage rocker-turned-born-again Xian Dave Bixby is their “Butcher Cover”, going for upwards of $2,000 on eBay. Carefully remastered from a mint-condition vinyl pressing, as no master tapes exist of thisContinue reading “PopMatters : Dave Bixby: Ode to Quetzalcoatl / Harbinger: Second Coming Review”
Brainwashed Magazine : Dave Bixby, “Ode to Quetzalcoatl” Review
“The strength of the album is its ability to immerse the audience in the dark mood that Bixby surely was undergoing at the time. Painfully honest and relentlessly sad, it remains as alluring as watching a building get smashed to the ground; there is, of course, beauty in destruction. Each track is at once gentleContinue reading “Brainwashed Magazine : Dave Bixby, “Ode to Quetzalcoatl” Review”
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