Again! The Electric Liturgy

Description

Again! The Electric Liturgy is an album by the American psychedelic rock band Mind Garage, released on RCA Victor in April/May 1970. The album was recorded by Roy Shockley assisted by Tom K. Pick at RCA’s “Nashville Sound” Studio (a.k.a. RCA Victor Studios) in Nashville, Tennessee; with Ted Daryll producing.

Mind Garage features Larry McClurg on lead vocals, Jack Bonasso on keyboards, John Vaughan on lead guitar and vocals, Norris Lytton on bass, saxophone, and vocals, and Ted Smith on percussion.

Mind Garage opens Rock Doors for College Crowd
CHARLESTON, W. Va.
By RAY BRACK

In a homecoming appearance recently at the Fraternity House, the Mind Garage gave the local collegiate crowd its baptism of quality progressive rock. The Atco quintet, formed at West Virginia University, is now based in Pittsburgh, Pa. According to manager Tom Cassie, the group is putting together an album of their “co-operatively written material. The Mind Garage’s most polished tools are an unusual (for progressive groups) sense of dynamic contrast and fine balance between flippant and philosophical material. Group members are Larry McClurg, singer; lead guitarist John Vaughan; Norris Lytton, bass; Jack Bond, organ, and drummer Ted Smith. Smith, with a jazz-tinctured style, is outstanding. The Mind Garage recently performed its own setting of the liturgy of the Mass at Judson Memorial Church in New York. The group calls its Mass the “Electrical Liturgy” and hopes to release it on an album. [Billboard Magazine, February 22, 1969]

Campus News
by Bob Glassenberg

Transcending
As the summer gets into full swing, many albums have crossed my desk dealing in one way or another with the topic of religion. Most of these would be dismissed by established religious groups, but they do say something. The Moody Blues have been doing it for a long time. Now come people like Mind Garage, Tyrannosaurs Rex, Bloomsbury People, the Organ Grinder, and the Who, of course. Richie Havens has always talked about the Path, at his concerts while tuning up between songs. The idea goes deeper than the lyric content of the songs but the idea is there. It is very hard to verbalize. It would be an ideal program for a Sunday on a college radio show – a collection and review of the religion in rock. Think about it. It’s a long and winding road. [Billboard Magazine, June 20, 1970 (Radio – TV programming)]

[The Archivist, 4th Edition]

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LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Tobacco Road” – 2:06
A2. “Circus Farm” – 2:50
A3. “Lucille” – 1:28
A4. “Emotion” – 2:50
A5. “Isle Of Ely” – 4:42
A6. “Jailhouse Rock” – 1:23
A7. “Paint It Black” – 3:39

Side Two – The Electric Liturgy
B1. “Processional; Kyrie; Gloria” – 5:08
B2. “Offertory” (Sunday Christian) – 2:20
B3. “The Lord’s Prayer” – 2:16
B4. “Communion” (Water) – 4:14
B5. “Recessional” – 2:28