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The Other Half

The Other Half has been played on NTS in shows including The Uline Catalog w/ Calvin LeCompte, featured first on 7 April 2022. Songs played include As Tears Go By.

This obscure San Francisco '60s band gained a degree of notoriety in the '80s when their punk-garage single "Mr. Pharmacist" was included on one of Rhino's Nuggets compilations and covered by the Fall. Actually, most of the Other Half's material was far less garage than psychedelic, featuring the sustain-laden guitar of Randy Holden, one of the best Jeff Beck-inspired axemen of the '60s. Boasting a just-out-of-the-garage approach to Haight-Ashbury psychedelia, the group cut a little-heard,…

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As Tears Go By
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