The Crazy People - Bedlam (1968)

The Crazy People is very similar to the Victims Of Chance LP. Not much is known about this album. It was recorded in Burnaby, British Columbia in 1968 and released on the small Condor Records label. The main theory behind this album is that it was produced and written by Johnny Kitchen and recorded by Canadian studio musicians, though the sleeve says it was produced by "Jean Daniel Productions and Jack Millman - Music Industried". Again, one theory is that Johnny Kitchen may have been Tandyn Almer, though it's unknown for sure. Just like The Victims Of Chance, this record is a hodge-podge of weirdness and psychedelic sound collages. If you listen closely, in one of the songs they mention The Victims Of Chance in the lyrics.

Tracklist:
1. Parade At The Funny Farm
2. Head Amusement
3. Raunchy Boog-A-Loo
4. After Six
5. The Truth
6. Head Games And Other Assorted Crap
7. Head Job
8. Happy Academy
9. Trans Luv Airlines
10. Let's Split

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The Victims Of Chance - The Victims Of Chance (1968)

Update: A user by the name of Robert Plante posted a comment on this saying Johnny Kitchen is Jack Millman, a jazz musician. A little bit of research proves this to be true, more info on Jack Millman can be found here.  However, Barnaby Bennett of Tetraktys fame says that some of the tracks on this, as well as The Crazy People album, are indeed Tandyn Almer songs.

The Victims Of Chance were an American psychedelic band, and a project of the pseudonymous Johnny Kitchen, who also produced The Crazy People, Blues Train, and Larry "Wild Man" Fischer. Not much is known about this album, or Johnny Kitchen, though there's rumors that Johnny Kitchen is a pseudonym for fabled LA producer/songwriter/friend of Brian Wilson, Tandyn Almer.

This album features all types of tripped out shit. Think funky sunshine pop, full of weird samples, weird spoken word, tripped out guitar noises, snippets of cartoons, and more. This album sounds very similar to the other Johnny Kitchen production, The Crazy People - Bedlam. It also syncs up perfectly with the Easter Island episode of theJacques Cousteau Odyssey if you time it just right.

This album is certified for only the heaviest of trippers. Be careful with this one, it's a real heavy hitter.

Tracklist:
1. The Victims Of Chance, Part 1
2. The Victims Of Chance, Part 2
3. Adventured In Time
4. Break Away
5. Over & Out
6. Tuesday's Victim
7. L.A. To Frisco - Four Eleven Flat
8. Funky Sunshine
9. Devil's Prayer

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