Big Boy Pete - World War IV

Gear Fab unearths yet another psychedelic oddity from the warped mind of Big Boy Pete (aka Pete Miller), this time an entirely unreleased masterwork from his prodigious and endlessly creative 1966-1969 period. World War Iv is labeled a "Symphonic Poem," and whatever that exactly connotes in pop terms is anyone's guess. It is certainly not a conventional song-based effort but a true epic, one that is segmented into extended classical-like sections with titles such as "Overture" and "Movement." One certainty is that the album is wide-lensed, a sweeping and ambitiously panoramic experimental piece of avant-garde psychedelia that shares numerous qualities with the equally idiosyncratic but still commercially minded psyche that Big Boy Pete had previously created, while transferring those qualities to a much larger, mural-sized canvas. Read More