Flower Fucking Travelin Band

For two nights Knitting Factory and Yeti Magazine will play host to the first ever US shows by the almighty Japanese psych-powerhouses Flower Travellin' Band.

Brooklyn Vegan posted the Allmusic review for what I consider one of the greatest albums of all time, Satori. Read it and try to understand why this is one of the biggest events in the history of civilization.

Flower Travelling Band was Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin meeting Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath at the Ash Ra Temple. Simply put, they played grand, spacey, tripped-out hard rock with a riffy base that was only two steps removed from the blues, but their manner of interpreting those steps came from an acid trip... From power chords to Eastern-tinged, North African, six-string freakouts, to crashing tom toms, to basses blasting into the red zone, Satori is a... new sonic universe constructed from cast-off elements of the popular culture of the LSD generation. Forget everything you know about hard rock from the 1970s until you've put this one through your headphones. It's monolithic, expansive, flipped to wig city, and full of a beach blanket bong-out muscularity. In other words, this is a "real" classic and worth any price you happen to pay for it.