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The Griffin The Worlds Filled With Love 1968 us fabulous colorful beat psychedelia vinyl edition

The Griffin The Worlds Filled With Love 1968 us fabulous colorful beat psychedelia vinyl edition Griffin was an obscure flower power pop psych band  with their 1968 ABC label album, optimistically titled �The World�s Filled With Love.� And anyone with a sweet tooth for the first two Strawberry Alarm Clock long players, or the mystical but still pop-centrific later Monkees albums, or anyone who still believes the world is filled with bunnies and pink cotton candy clouds, will find Griffin �s na�ve but surprisingly trippy outlook on life pretty reassuring.   Griffin summoning up their inner Kahlil Gibrans when they sing �Know thyself is just a phrase, till some have passed through the haze. I�ve figured out the maze, in my other life.� As Ravi Shankar�s dad, I�m guessing, since they surround it with the same kind of floaty, mystical sitar and tabla head zones that George did on his passages to India , all bellydancing rhythms, snakey sitar lines and om-like chanting background v...