Böenzee Cryque

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Denver band Böenzee Cryque, standing on a rooftop in downtown Denver 1966. You can faintly make out the Cosmopolitan Hotel sign in the background.

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Here is a clip of their 45 on Chicory Records:

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Mike wrote:

Nice article! I found out about Böenzee through the movie “Psych-Out”, they did an amazing take on Jimi Hendrixs “Purple Haze”, i thought that they were they ultimate psych band, but then i listened to the song you put up here, and it didn’t sound like anything like the one on the soundtrack. Do you know anything about their previous 45’s? Are they in the same vein as the one from Psych-Out?
Thanks in advance for any answer,
Mike

Hi Mike,
It’s just a matter of what year they came out. The Beau Brummels-style single above is from early-’66, the more psychedelic material is from 1967. The song in Psych-Out is used for Jack Nicholson’s hysterical fake psychedelic band “Mumblin’ Jim“.

To hear more psychedelic Böenzee Cryque, there is an excellent compilation called Psychedelic States – Colorado In The 60s, a 2-CD set with the Monocles, the Trolls, Böenzee Cryque, the Soothsayers and many more.

-Tom
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4 Responses to “Böenzee Cryque”

Mike G. November 5th, 2010 at 3:54 am

Nice article! I found out about Böenzee through the movie “Psych-Out”, they did an amazing take on Jimi Hendrixs “Purple Haze”, i thought that they were they ultimate psych band, but then i listend to the song you put up here, and it didn’t sound like anything like the one on the soundtrack. Do you know anything about their previous 45’s? Are they in the same vein as the one from Psych-Out?

Thanks in advance for any answer,

Mike

Tom Lundin November 9th, 2010 at 9:10 am

I responded in the actual post, thanks Mike!

Mike G. November 15th, 2010 at 4:04 am

Thanks for the answer, i will be sure to check it out!

I actually found out that it was a pedal-steel-guitar playing in “Ashbury Wednesday”, and not a regular guitar, i was just taken away by the thought that anybody could play a guitar like that, haha.

I also wondered the line-up, i saw a picture with the group standing around like a keyboard (?) or something like that, it was a very small picture, so you couldn’t make out anything, but i wondered if the line-up changed along the years, since no one even looked like the ones in the picutre above. Like, who was one “Ashbury Wednesday”?

Thanks again for the answer,

Mike

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