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The Deep was a short-lived American psychedelic rock band formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1966. The band was experimentally progressive, as they were one of the earliest groups to record psychedelic music, before it was adapted by a wider array of musical acts. Although their only album failed to achieve success, it later gained acclaim for being considered the earliest work to reference "psychedelic" in its title.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Psychedelic Moods )〕 Information on the band is sparse as only one band member had a confirmed musical career prior to recording. The member, Rusty Evans (born Marcus Uzilevsky, 1937, New York City), was the Deep's lead guitarist, primary songwriter, and a vocalist. Evans initially recorded in 1958 as a rockabilly singer, before performing as a Greenwich Village folk musician in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He recorded three albums as Rusty Evans – ''Songs of Our Land'', ''Railroad Songs'' (both 1964) and ''Live at Gerde's Folk City'' (1965) – and was later a member of the folk group The New Christy Minstrels. Musician David Bromberg is also known to have played on The Deep's one and only album, although it is unknown on which tracks he played.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Psychedelic Moods A Mind Expanding Experience )〕 The band recorded its debut album, ''Psychedelic Moods'', in August 1966 for the Cameo-Parkway label, which was also home to fellow protopunkers Question Mark and the Mysterians. While the exact release date of the album has yet to be definitively established, the record is generally considered to have been distributed in October 1966, based on the album's catalogue number.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Embryonic Journey )〕 This would credit it as the first official album to include the word "psychedelic" in its title, pre-dating the Blues Magoos' debut, ''Psychedelic Lollipop'' , and the The 13th Floor Elevators' eponymous album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Deep - Psychedelic Moods )〕 The Deep's ''Psychedelic Moods'' did not sell well, and the group did not tour to support it. They existed as a studio-only band, and, aside from sessions for their album, produced no other recordings under that name. Evans left Cameo-Parkway to record a new album for the Columbia Records label in 1967. Abandoning the name, The Deep, this second album was credited to the band Freak Scene and entitled ''Psychedelic Psoul''. Despite the name change, the band still contained the original lineup from the first album. The sound of this album is very similar to that of the Deep's album, and is typically considered a follow-up in all but name. As its title suggests, ''Psychedelic Psoul'' is composed of psychedelic-influenced tracks as the band continued to develop past concepts from the debut album. However, Freak Scene's album met the same results as ''Psychedelic Moods''. They did not tour, and their album did not chart. The album has been rereleased by Sony BMG through Columbia Records on vinyl. The group disbanded in late 1967 After this venture, Evans gave up psychedelic rock in its entirety, returning to performing as a folk musician. He recorded under his birthname, "Marcus", for a self-titled album in 1969, which produced compositions conceived as psychedelic folk in nature. He did not record another album until 1979, when he released "''Life's Railway Heaven''", another folk effort. Evans has recorded sporadically since then, usually in the style of folk or rockabilly music,〔 and has also led a Johnny Cash tribute band. Under his real name of Marcus Uzilevsky, he is a respected visual artist best known for his landscape paintings, and has exhibited widely in California.〔( Andrea Liss, "The Art of Marcus Uzilevsky" ). Retrieved 10 August 2015〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Deep (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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