That said, even the attitudes, themes and images are old and tired, where I must ask, “Who sits with a Guru anymore?”, and who in the world would walk barefoot in this day and age, yet alone though Baltimore, and then there’s the Farmer single, where it’s been a rather long time since anyone went on up to the county. There are many psychedelic bands who’ve been carrying the torch since those heady days and nights, leaving me to suggest that I’d be far more interested in hearing a band who’ve developed and morphed with the times, showering the world with new inspirations and not simply capitalizing on material, like that old material or not, that’s already been done. You should probably turn over and go back to sleep before purchasing Wake Up Where You Are, as one reviewer insisted, “Track for track, the Strawberry Alarm Clock duplicates and expands on the brand of psychedelic zest they are defined by.” Actually none of that is true, as the band has and always will be defined by that single, and as I’ve said, nothing the group did in the future resembled that song, leaving me to ask why after forty some years, would I be interested in hearing a duplication, albeit new, of those original tunes. Certainly rock was at a crossroads during the 60’s, where this historic group took full advantage of the multitude of influences that were buzzing around at the time yet for my way of thinking, they primarily buzzed too close to the sounds of Chicago, along with heavier metal aspects that didn’t ride quite as fluidly for me. Now, if you for one minute thought that other Strawberry albums would ride the same exotic fuzzed romantic tripped out path as that original hit single, think again, because nothing the band did was ever in keeping with that imaginative single. With the Strawberry Alarm Clock primarily being known for the blazing 60’s single “Incense & Peppermints,” it’s strange that some forty years after their last album, they’d deliver an epic opus, nearly eighty minutes in length, Wake Up Where You Are.
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