This group has long been one of the more obscure Krautrock bands, even though their single eponymous album from 1971 has become legendary, even though much of the record is fairly conventional hard-rock. Bernhard Rendel, only 14 years old at the time, started My Solid Ground in 1968 in Russelsheim, near Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to this, his... [+] Read More

Graphic artist Wes Wilson pioneered the rock concert poster aesthetic of the late 1960s, translating the sights and sounds of counterculture society into the psychedelic iconography which endures today among the era's most indelible images. Born Robert Wesley Wilson on July 15, 1937, he drew throughout childhood, but while attending the local... [+] Read More

When latter-'60s psychedelic rock became the progressive rock of the early '70s, Melbourne's Spectrum was at the forefront of the Australian response. The group was formed from the ashes of Party Machine, which split up when singer and songwriter Ross Wilson left to join former Australian group Procession in London. Bass player Mike Rudd... [+] Read More