Flash forward a few years, and we find Knight in the studio aping the sounds of The Sir Douglas Quintet on a record that was a complete exploitation not only of the SDQ sound, but also the rampant psychedelic culture of the time (summer of 1967). While the song was cut the previous year by Dino, Desi & Billy, the Power Plant version ups the ante of drug culture by replacing the line "make me flip" (as heard on the original) with "make me trip". Plus, "Power Plant" itself undoubtedly refers to pot, and Texas psych maniacs The Golden Dawn also used the name "Power Plant" for their '67 LP, with an album cover depicting neon painted marijuana and psylocybin mushrooms.
The Monkees also cut a version of this a few months prior during their first play-their-own instruments "Headquarters" sessions; sadly, only an instrumental backing exists, as they never cut vocals for the track.
While this record may be a sham, it's a damn good one; it swings like a mo-fo!
from 1967...
THE POWER PLANT - SHE'S SO FAR OUT SHE'S IN
5 comments:
hi D,
what you mean by "a mo-fo" ?
Ha! "mofo" is another way to say that horribly X-rated M.F swear word; you know, one of the seven dirty words (with a "mother" placed in front of it) you cannot say on radio/TV or the Daily 45. That MF word gets thrown around alot in music biz lingo.
Billy Fury did a good version of this too.
-- Jon
Baker Knight also wrote a lot for Dean Martin, and speaking of "sham" psyche, he also recorded the remarkable "Hallucinations" on Reprise.
Inerestingly, British late 50s rock'n'roll and 60s pop balladeer Billy Fury did a pretty decent version of 'She So Far Out She's I'n in 1966 already on the b-side of 'Give Me Your Word'. Guess he must have heard the Dino, Desi & Billy recording.
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