The Head Shop is a psychedelic rock band from New York that released one eponymous album on Epic in 1969. The album cover features a swirling group of multi-colored (and numbered) boxes that surround a black-and-white image of a shrunken head. The back cover is mostly black with minimal copy but also includes a shot of the band lit from beneath. (More from Wikipedia)
One day, I was listening to a delightful psychedelic rock album by a band called the Head Shop and wondered what Wikipedia might have to say about it. I had found a copy of the album a long time ago (probably at the semi-annual Record Convention in Hillsborough, NC) and was ecstatic when I saw the name of Milan as the producer of the record. There was nothing in Wikipedia about the band, so after a few days, I started writing an article about The Head Shop. Though there have been some additions and changes over the years, that Wikipedia article is still largely my work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Head_Shop . (I feel no need to restate what I have already written on Wikipedia, since those articles are more readily accessible on the Internet than these Facebook posts).
As with many of my later Wikipedia articles as well as the UARB and UARA posts, I relied largely on information given on the Allmusic website, the best source that I have found about older rock bands and artists. Surprisingly, after I wrote up the Wikipedia article on the Head Shop, the Eugene Chadbourne piece about the band on Allmusic disappeared, even though Chadbourne still has several other pieces on other rock bands. I have often thought that I should question them about that, wondering if they were aiming to be “Somemusic” rather than Allmusic. I later found the Chadbourne piece on www.barnesandnoble.com, though that one is gone as well. I just found something by Eugene Chadbourne about the Head Shop on Allmusic, but it was filed under the artist Joe? and seems to be mostly a gag piece.
(September 2013)
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