Cauldron album cover

Fifty Foot Hose were a psychedelic rock band that formed in San Fransisco in the late 1960's. Psychedelic music draws its inspiration from the experience of mind-altering drugs such as cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline, ecstasy and especially LSD. Characteristic features of the style include modal melodies, lengthy instrumental solos, esoteric lyrics and trippy special effects such as reversed, distorted, delayed and/or phased sounds. ... This article is about the city in California. ...

The group was comprised of three core members: founder and bassist Cork Marcheschi, guitarist David Blossom, and his wife, vocalist Nancy Blossom. David and Nancy brought psychedelic and jazz elements to the band, while Marcheschi contributed experimental and avant-garde styles. Together the trio created many original compositions. The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the early 1920s in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...

The group, in its attempt to fuse rock and experimental music, released only one album, Cauldron, in 1968. It contained eleven songs, including "God Bless the Child", a Billie Holiday cover. Billie Holiday photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 For the Canadian broadcaster, see Billie Holiday (broadcaster). ...