Dave Bixby..ODE TO QUETZALCOATL...Acid Psych Loner Folk..Private Press NM LP '69

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This is Dave Bixby..ODE TO QUETZALCOATL....Private Pressing D 24 LP 1970
Original 1970 Pressing
Cover: NM to better, with factory shrink, see pics (photographer glare in pics)

Vinyl: NM to better
Monster Acid, Psych, Loner, Downer, Folk.
Mega rare private press loner outsider folk, the first effort from Dave Bixby.  This is the original press, sold in and around Michigan. This was also linked to the cult The Group, and released with help from head guru Don Degraff.

Folk/rock songwriter, composer, guitarist and vocalist from Rockford, Michigan, USA. After being involved in 1960s Michigan folk and garage-rock bands such as The Shillelaghs and Peter & The Prophets, he started playing acoustic guitar and experimenting with LSD. After a year of drug abuse he felt broken. Starting a soul-searching, spiritual journey, he wrote ODE TO QUETZALCOATL and most of the material for his second album, Harbinger’s Second Coming, in just one and a half months. Shrouded in mystery, the legend of Dave Bixby has grown in the recent years. 2023 sees the release of an album by Dave Bixby’s Harbinger Orchestra which combines newly recorded cover tributes (e.g. by members of De Portables) with 4 new Bixby songs.


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David Bixby's Ode to Quetzalcoatl is what we would consider a "hippie burnout" album. Most of this has to do with this album's backstory. David Bixby lived the hippie lifestyle before experiencing a bad LSD episode, causing him to fall into a depression. He then joined a Christian cult, which at the time, helped him during this difficult time in his life. Much of the lyrical themes of Ode to Quetzalcoatl reflects on his spiritual journey while tackling themes related to depression and addiction. Despite it's gloomy atmosphere, there's still a real beauty to this album. The lyrics are incredibly honest, introspective and poetic. Of course, religion and faith in God are found throughout the whole album. This contrasts from other psychedelic folk from the time, which focused on other forms of spirituality outside of more western religions. This really goes back to what is stated earlier about this feeling like a "hippie burnout" type of album. While this is David Bixby's first album, surely this was a strong contrast from the optimistic hippie lifestyle he experienced prior to recording this.