Smoke

It seemed like anything was possible in the late 1960's,even a rock band composed of five semi-skilled musician bikers who filled the topside of their debut album with an eighteen minute jam about how much fun it is to be a biker! Smoke is best described as the Grateful Dead's backwoods cousin after sitting at the feet of the Maharishi. Led by 300 pound Brother John Orvis, a man as spiritually gentle as he was physically imposing, the band made its way up and down the Pacific coast, singing about peace, love, and self realization.

Although the material may be seen by some as pretentious, the delivery most assuredly isn't. Smoke's debut album is a true rock rarity: a record driven to greatness on the strength of its amateurishness. The band played any instrument that it could find, not in a scholarly, Incredible String Band sort of way, but just to see what it might sound like. They loved life, and sang songs ("Carry On Your Idea", "Choose It") asking you to love yours just as much. These gruff, mean looking dudes wanted above all else to be your friends, and their sincerity prevented the whole affair from being the sappy mess it might otherwise have become. They truly believed in the hippie dream, and their distillation of that dream onto vinyl is one of the most joyous, life-affirming things ever created! (ochsfan RYM)

Carry On Your Idea - 1969

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