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TERENCE - AN EYE FOR AN EAR - CD

1. An Eye for An Ear
2. Rap
3. Second City Song  
4. Power
5. Exiles
6. Fool Amid the Traffic  
7. Priscilla
8. Lighting Frederick's Fire
9. The Emperor
10. Does It Feel Better Now?

A mindblowing mixture of pop, psych and electronica, this mysterious 1969 studio project was recorded in Toronto and New York by youthful vocalist Terry Black, who’d had six top 40 hits in Canada as a teenager, as well as recording the cult Black Plague LP in 1966. Veering from the catchy pop of Priscilla and soul-inflected Second City Blues to the experimental The Emperor and freaky Lighting Frederick’s Fire, the album features one of the greatest psychedelic tracks of all time in the fuzz blow-out Fool Amid The Traffic, and makes its long-overdue CD debut here.

All tracks by Richard Gael and Patrick Riccio II except The Emperor (Richard Gael / Eric Robertson)
Produced by Richard Gael and Patrick Riccio II in association with Bill Gilliland
Executive producers – Edward Simon and Paul Gelber
Arranged by Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II and Robery J. Halley
Engineered by Garry Starr & Frank Bertin (Toronto) / Elvin Campbell & Don Casale (New York)
Cover photograph by Al Rubin
Original liner notes by Frank Frezzo

FOOL AMID THE TRAFFIC

In our establishment, to alienate the enlightened is a characteristic madness. To crucify him is a necessity. To martyr him justifies our guilt.

Come and see the village fool perform
Stops the traffic when the weather’s warm
With his ancient smile
Come and see him hassle with the man
Children want to save him if they can
At his coming trial

Come and see the village fool beguile
See the courtroom rolling in the aisle
Much more than smile
Watch him dream that he’s about to die
Hear the children whisper, asking why
The fool’s on trial

Do you sense it, brother, in the air?
The winds of change are blowin’ everywhere
Saints and fools appeared in Frisco –
Did you think it wouldn’t happen here?
Come and see the village fool perform
Stops the traffic when the weather’s warm

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