With the drummer riding the floor tom, Brooks scales the upper registers then dives into the lower realms. After a brief guitar prelude, Brooks greets the audience then the band launches into the 20-minute ‘Hello Germany’.

‘Volume 1’ begins the series with three tracks recorded live during Strange’s 1984 tour of Germany. Treasures and Gems from the Treasure Chest, Volume 1 by Terry Brooks and Strange In late 2017, nearly 20 years since their final recording on Akarma, Brooks made the first volume of his long-awaited ‘Treasures and Gems from the Treasure Chest’ project available on Bandcamp. Becoming one of American psychedelic rock music’s steadfast independent bands, Terry Brooks and Strange put out seven more albums between 19. After he returned to Ohio and began playing guitar professionally again, he formed his band The Strange and released their innovative and groundbreaking first album ‘Translucent World’ in 1973 on his own Outer Galaxie label. Terry Brooks | Courtesy of Terry Brooks and Ben Uphamīrooks spent time in the Army in the mid-1960s, experiencing firsthand the horrors of the war in Vietnam. At this time, he began developing his trademark sound that is at once formidable and spaced-out while also deeply empathetic. Growing up in Ohio, he toured the US “chitlin’ circuit” in his mid-teens as the only white musician in an all-black blues band. Terry Brooks and Strange – ‘Treasures and Gems from the Treasure Chest Volumes 1-5’ (2018) One of America’s great independent rock and roll guitarists, Terry Brooks has been active professionally since the early 1960s.

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