Marcus

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This particular Marcus is a Mitchell and singer-songwriter, He is known to be an affable imbibing zeitgeist pragmatist so it is possible for ages 3 to 93 to really enjoy or I should say, Get Into His Music! He sends apologizes for the mix up and hopes you are still able to find your Marcus.

The photo was taken by a three year female fan named Alania and as you can see, it caught him in amazement and surprise.

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A somewhat legendary late 1970s psych private from a guy still living in the cosmic acid seeker mindset, even as the sound is (for the time) modern, with an FM-rock/AOR feel that may put some off. Similar to DR Hooker as a "big ego" project with no resources spared; the songs, the performances and the production are flawless. Hearing this on acid is like walking around inside a psychedelic cathedral, with multilayered keyboards, dreamy female harmonies, and a panoramic 24-channel soundscape. The strongly psych-flavored A-side is awesome in my ears, although the Cecil B DeMille production has its number of detractors. I don't care - this is a longtime personal fave. The original press was 500 copies, but only about half of them came with the blue paste-ons with Marcus image and titles that cover the center hole front and back. In later years remaining copies from Marcus' original stash appeared on the market in the plain white disco sleeves only, without any blue paste-ons. Copies have also appeared with what are believed to be more recently manufactured paste-ons, although they're more or less identical to the 1979 ones. The early 1990s bootleg enlarged the paste-on images so that they fill the entire boardprinted 12" sleeve space. Despite being legal reissues, the WIS releases are vinyl-sourced and somewhat inferior in sound to the original. The CD-ROM features a video of a 1979 acoustic live performance by Marcus from local TV. Only one song from the LP is performed, and the material is less psychedelic and more singer/songwriter. Marcus made a comeback LP in the 1990s titled "The return". [PL]


This is the ultimate example of an album that divides psych fans. Some of you will hate it, though it's not one of those albums whose legend comes from misleading dealer hype, as there are people who absolutely love it too. Like the best latter day psych albums (Trimble, Zerfas, Anonymous, etc.) it sounds completely of its time. Unlike those albums it doesn't seem to have any connection to 60s music, though, and if anything sounds a few years ahead of its time. The reverbed and way up-front vocals, the ultra-prominent cymbals (the rest of the drums are buried in the mix so far they might as well not even be there), the cheesy synthesizers and new age-sounding female backing vocals are hallmarks of the 80s sound. Mixed with spacy sound effects and this album's most prominent feature, heavy phasing, it sounds like psychedelicized AOR (or, on the non-heavy songs, new age soft rock) sung by a mystic and recorded in an echo chamber. The sound is absolutely going to be a hard sell for most of you, and in my opinion the songs are only marginally more appealing. Some of it doesn't even sound like "rock" to me, and while about half of the songs are quite catchy, there's not a lot of musical depth here. I find this one more interesting for the way the confusing release and "re-release" were hyped by dealers than I do for the actual music within. This is a real oddball, to be sure, and doesn't sound like anything else. I recommend that you don't pay too much mind to either its fans or its detractors and check it out for yourself. [AM] (written by Acid Archives)

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Marcus is also a eurobeat vocalist. The only track of his that has been released is "Man On Fire" (from Super Eurobeat 152).