{"title":"The Flower Pot Men","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"midsummer-dreaming-an-anthology-1967-1970","title":"Midsummer Dreaming - An Anthology 1967-1970","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMidsummer Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e is a 3CD anthology of recordings from British harmony pop maestro \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Carter\u003c\/strong\u003e and friends under their flower-power era guise The Flower Pot Men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe anthology includes the Summer of Love hit \"\u003cem\u003eLet's Go To San Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e\", further 45s (some using alternative period aliases), two unreleased-at-the-time concept albums, and several tracks now gaining their first-ever issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired equally by the Haight-Ashbury scene, the worldwide Summer of Love, and Brian Wilson's recent groundbreaking work, in mid-1967 former Ivy Leaguers \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Carter\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eKen Lewis\u003c\/strong\u003e pieced together the hugely ambitious, six-minute \"\u003cem\u003eLet's Go To San Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e\". The result was a UK Top Five hit, a success that encouraged Carter to record more material in the same vein.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen psychedelia withered and died, Carter abandoned the name in public but continued to work on a brace of Moody Blues-style concept albums that failed to appear at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA four-hour set, \u003cem\u003eMidsummer Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e gathers up all four Flower Pot Men singles, those two aborted albums, and sundry other material that either didn't gain a release or was issued under other aliases, such as the highly regarded \"\u003cem\u003eMythological Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\" (credited to Friends) and \"\u003cem\u003eMidsummer Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e\" (\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Carter\u003c\/strong\u003e \u0026amp; \u003cstrong\u003eRuss Alquist\u003c\/strong\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn essential item for lovers of intelligent, melodic, harmony-based late 60s British pop and psychedelia, \u003cem\u003eMidsummer Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e includes five hitherto-unissued studio tracks as well as a brace of late 1967 Radio 1 sessions that are also gaining their first-ever official issue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit","offers":[{"title":"3CD","offer_id":51361672233291,"sku":"R7475-4857","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Screenshot2025-02-28at18.01.26_b3b41918-619c-40fb-a0b7-a437dc5f2d26.png?v=1752232896"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/the-flower-pot-men.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}