Like Minds

Psychograss | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugarhill
• ASIN: B000000F4Y
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,484 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tree King Creek

2. 3rd Stone From The Sun

3. Creaking Tree

4. Hot Nickels

5. Jeremy Reel

6. Forgiven/Stuart Symington's Summer Song

7. Tennessee Twister

8. Big Monk

9. Garlic & Sapphires

10. Fuzzy Navel

11. Big Gravel

12. Mind's Meat

13. Ride The Wild Brains

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Will There Be More . . ., October 19, 2000

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Gary Popovich "Retired Banjo Picker" (Chesterfield, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Minds (Audio CD)

... from this talented quintet? Start with longtime playing partners (and Grisman alumni) Darol Anger and Mike Marshall, add a dash of guitar-master David Grier, pour on Tony Trishka's scintillating banjo stylings, and wrap it up with Todd Phillps' "spacey/solid" bass, and voila! an instant near-classic jam album. The compositions all come from the various band members (with the notable exception of Jimi Hendrix's "3rd Stone from the Sun, which is pretty high energy but somehow misses the mark) and lay out some wonderful melodic foundation - Marshall's "Hot Nickels" and Trishka's "Garlic & Sapphires" are my personal favorites, but almost every track is a keeper. The unsung hero of this effort may be Todd Phillips, who shifts from timekeeper to timewarper and back on numerous occasions without missing a beat. All of these guys have their own gigs, but I'd love to hear a followup!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hypnotic, March 18, 2008

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William J. Kendrick (Greenville, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Minds (Audio CD)

The music I like best is the music that can alter my state of mind and this definitely does. The first time I popped this in my CD player I had a headache and was driving for a couple of hours. This disk made me forget the headache and basically zone out for the trip. I have heard efforts at playing psychedelic bluegrass before and didn't expect much but this was surprisingly compelling. I respectfully disagree with the above reviewer about Third Stone from the Sun. It is great.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much lost in the translation, November 1, 2004

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loce_the_wizard "loce_the_wizard" (Lilburn, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Minds (Audio CD)

I've always felt like too much was lost in the translation from performance to recording with bluegrass music and had hoped that Psychograss might enable me to transcend what I'm sure must be a flaw in how I hear music. If I were a musician, especially a competent one, then I think I would not have this problem, but "Like Minds" does not compel to change my position.

The band itself is a stellar array of acoustic virtuosos and the collective talent here is off the charts. They take turns leading the fray and then regrouping as collective, and while there is an undercurrent of experimentation and eclecticism, the music sounds too much the same throughout to my untrained ear.

I think I expected either more or a different energy, such as the rapid-fire pace of the Meat Purveyors, the oddball viewpoints from the Gourds, or the jazz phrasing from David Grisman.

All in all, there are some good moments here and the only real dog (and only cover song) is Hendrix's 3rd Stone from the Sun. But I'm never going to consider this a favorite CD.