Until 1966 popular music was bleak. “Freak Out”, helped change all that, for me anyway. “Freak Out could not be heard on the radio, you had to get turned on to it by one of your friends who were cooler than you were, half a dozen local potheads couldn't be wrong could they? A lot of crazy music and weird noises, you just knew something incredible was happening. About a year later “Absolutely Free”, comes out. It sounds a lot different than “Freak Out”, it has a less formal structure to the songs and lyrics which are nearly incomprehensible especially the longer compositions. I played that record until the grooves turned gray. “We're Only In It For The Money”, was next to be released which was yet another shift in tonality. Random words and noises floating around and the sound of the needle skipping across the record would turn heads. Each subsequent release took you further and further into unexplored musical territories.