Psychedelic Summer: The Journey of Daylight Lust

Chapter 6

They had a documentary. It received commercial success and critical acclaim. Kyle told some stories of the bands and memories. He also reminiscing his band's heydays. Kyle really missed playing with the band. Playing in front of the streets. Making friends with Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and the Big Brother & Holding Company at their early years, with the legendary Jimi Hendrix. They were one of the bands with youngest members, they were teenagers when they form the Daylight Lust.

Kyle also become a writer. He loves to write stories during his free time and released his autobiography called The Man Who Had A Dream: A Life of Kyle Richards. The autobiography was a hit. Few days later, the band inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A week later, the band decided to make album under Abdul and Michael's label not Fontana Records. Their contract has ended. The band released their fourteenth album as their comeback called Who's Back? including the original lineup excluded Gail. As their tribute, they released a song called Ms. Gail as a folk ballad.

Who's Back? (2017, Moonlight Sonnet Records)

Tracklist:

1. Hell Blues
2. Anything for My Darling
3. Ms. Gail
4. Bombs from Heaven
5. I Think You're Crazy
6. Telescope
7. Paint It Black - Rolling Stones cover
8. Even
9. Numbers
10. Payphone
11. The People's Club
12. Are You Lost?
13. Wild Girls

Genre: Indie Rock; Folk Rock; Blues Rock; Raga Rock; Neo-Psychedelia; Psychedelic Rock; Heavy Metal; Jazz Rock; Hard Rock

From their earliest days, there's a bad chemistry between Abdul and Kyle in songwriting. They debated and wanted to take control but Michael and Edward settled it down and decided both of them to apologize and had peace between them. They both decided to be songwriting partners. Edward and Kyle used to play together at Spider's Back but never actually met. Edward left the group and few days later, Kyle walked in and become a guitarist while the drummer is a man called Roddy. The band are also the pioneers of the psychedelia genre. Jerry Garcia introduced Kyle and the band to LSD, even tho it said that their hippie friends introduced them. They were on a bus, there are hippies and a band called Grateful Dead.

Abdul was a magical and spiritual person, he takes LSD and play the sitar. It's like he's a sitar god. He do this everytime before playing on shows during his psychedelia heydays. When they played their first gig with the Big Brother & The Holding Company, they saw Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Gene Clark of The Byrds and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and Papas. At their first gig, they take LSD when they performed. It's a blast but the drug didn't really fit for their bodies. After that, the band are offered as a support act for The Byrds by Gene Clark.

The band also played at the streets of Haight Ashbury alongside Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Daylight Lust soon become well-known around the San Francisco city but unknown outside San Francisco. They were still in the underground psychedelic scene. Kyle also dated a girl at the time who's a hippie named Kate. In the documentary, he said that Kate is a beautiful girl, pretty face and smiles. They both always cared for each other but soon break up because Kate died of drug overdose. Michael was also the center of girls' attraction, he was handsome. A lot of girls wanted him. Michael also believed in free love and had a lot of girlfriends. He didn't had steady girlfriends and always wanted to have a pretty girl besides him. Abdul didn't believed in free love, but he believes in peace and respect. The LSD makes him even more "spiritual", "brave" and "steady". Edward had dated couple of girls but didn't really liked them, he's quite picky.

Few years later, the band hired Claudia to be the keyboardist. Claudia had an acid addiction. Around 1969 or 1970, the band were on a rehabilitation center. The whole band is cleaned up after few months and getting back to making music. Their White Room album were remained influential. A magazine put their album to Top 100 Albums of 1970 chart. The White Room shapes to indie, punk, metal, slowcore, grunge, progressive pop, shoegaze and lo-fi music. They also become one of best and influential American rock bands. The punks, metalheads, shoegazers know who they are.

The band never know that they would be influential and paved a way for younger generations. From playing at the pavement and streets, to big states. They also released 5 live albums, Live at Monterey Pop, Live at Woodstock, Live at The Filmore Theater, Live at Glastonbury Festival and Daylight Lust in Live Aid.

A movie streaming service company was interested to make a documentary on the band. They were also known as the pioneers of the San Francisco counterculture. The company used the titled Psychedelic Summer: The Journey of Daylight Lust. It also included a performance of Abdul & Friends, The Southern Goose and the whole band together. There are untold stories of the band, their 1967 concert was one of the biggest concerts of all time, about millions of people went to the concert but some of them were going through the gates and slip in.

Their documentary was a hit on Netflix. A lot of music critics loved it. The documentary was also a sponsor for their latest album. They are very happy when the documentary is a hit. Abdul said, "They still remembered us?" The band all laughed and cried. Few days later, the band toured again. Back to their heydays, before Abdul married to Aarna, he dated the band's manager, Diana but broken up because they're both have different beliefs and opinions. Both of them remained friends but Diana died of heroin overdose. The band already helped her but she's just take a lot of heroin and didn't listened. Kyle used to date fangirls, doesn't matter what age they are. He just dated them.

In 1969, they were making a mini album/EP but it was unreleased because due to their busy tours and rehabilitation. It's like a lost archive, the band decided to released it by making it all over again. The good thing, they kept their old notes. The EP was soon released as Lost at the Psychedelic Haze. The title was meant to be that.

Lost at The Psychedelic Haze (2018, Moonlight Sonnet Records)

Tracklist:

1. Bubblegum Wrap
2. No One's Gonna Steal My Cocaine
3. Lush Smile Dust
4. Octopus Days
5. How Are You Gonna Do That?
6. Dangerous Challenges

Genre: Folk Rock; Blues Rock; Psychedelic Rock; Raga Rock; Acid Rock; Neo-Psychedelia; Hard Rock; Jazz Rock; Slowcore

The EP got critical acclaim. A magazine write an article called "The Lost Archives of Daylight Lust" and another one called "The Band Who Created Alternative Rock". The band also shared their love of psychedelia music in this EP. The band all toured around the country prior release of their album. The band had become influential and paved a way to other generations to come

SEE YOU AGAIN!!

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