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Waning Crescent - (Full Album) | 60s Psychedelic/Acid Rock

While San Francisco was chasing light shows and peace signs, Waning Crescent came out of Detroit’s industrial haze—five blue-collar kids turning the smoke and grind of factory life into something raw, strange, and electric. They weren’t flower children; they were night shifters. The band was born after hours in an abandoned auto plant, where they rehearsed surrounded by broken glass, steel beams, and the echo of their own distortion. Frontman Jack Redding had been kicked out of two garage bands for being “too weird.” Guitarist Neil Voss was a jazz player who started running his guitar through homemade effects boxes built from salvaged radio parts. The result was a sound that didn’t shimmer like California psych—it howled. Their name, Waning Crescent, came from Redding’s line in an early lyric: “The moon don’t shine for everyone.” The name stuck because it captured their whole ethos—beauty found in decline, light fading but still fighting to be seen. Sound & Description Waning Crescent mixed heavy Detroit rhythm with surreal atmosphere—equal parts The Stooges and The Doors, but filtered through a dark, bluesy trance. Flick Malone’s Hammond organ groaned like a church on fire, while Voss’s guitar tore through long, molten solos that drifted between menace and melancholy. Their 1969 debut, Smoke Over Water Street, was recorded in a single week for a small label out of Ann Arbor. It didn’t chart, but college radio picked up “Ashtrays in the Rain” and “Iron Moon,” both of which became cult staples among Midwest freaks and night owls. They toured relentlessly—cheap motels, dive bars, and college gymnasiums filled with kids on the edge of something. Their shows felt dangerous: no costumes, no flowers, just flashing red lights, walls of feedback, and Redding snarling like a preacher having visions. Downfall & Legacy By 1972, the scene had turned and the band burned out—too heavy for the folk crowd, too strange for mainstream rock. Redding disappeared to the West Coast, Voss became a session player, and the rest scattered. Years later, Smoke Over Water Street was rediscovered by vinyl collectors and psychedelic revivalists who hailed it as “a lost Midwestern masterpiece”—a dark, gritty mirror to the sunlit psych of the era. Today, Waning Crescent stands as one of those beautiful ghosts of rock history: a band that never fit the mold, burned too fast, and left behind just enough static and shadow to keep the myth alive. “We weren’t chasing peace,” Redding once said. “We were chasing the noise inside our own heads.” [00:00:00]- Moon Don't Shine for Everyone [00:04:52]- Iron Moon [00:08:41]- Smoke and Mirrors [00:12:17]- Paper Halo [00:17:06]- Ashtrays in the Rain [00:21:36]- Luminous Drift [00:26:12]- Zug's Shadow #psychedelicrock , #psychedelia, # rockmusic, #1960snostalgia ,#psychedelicmusic , #psychedelicvideo, #instrumentalrockmix, #irishpsychedelicmusic, #gospelmusic, #progressiverock, #psychedelicmusic, #rockandroll, #surfmusic, #70spsychedelicrock, #top10, #mejoresbandasderockprogresivo, #psychedelicstonerrock, #psychedelicrockturkish, #hardrock, #psychedelicrock, #music, #automobile, #soul, #russianmusic , #russianrock, #garagerock