Hirsute flare-wearers with an Aldous Huxley fixation, fun-loving Texans Bubble Puppy were slightly less unhinged then their labelmates the 13th Floor Elevators and Red Crayola. After lashing the Billboard top 20 with the forthright three-part vocal harmonies of 1969’s misspelled first single ‘Hot Smoke And Sasafrass’ the innocuously named, poorly styled quartet (check the cover to debut A Gathering Of Promises) struggled to summon a second winner from the pack. So they started afresh on this non-album single, although A-side ‘Days Of Our Time’ looked a little too closely to Britain’s chart invaders for inspiration. ‘Thinkin’ About Thinkin’’ more than compensated. An acid trip in microcosm, its filthy fuzztone riffs, manic drums and crazed organs offset by forthright inter-band operatics. It even crams in a laidback middle-eight before Rod Prince and Todd Potter’s feral guitars lock in to the fadeout. Dropped by their label in 1970, Bubble Puppy quickly resurfaced as the progressively-minded Demian, but failed to create anything quite as cool as this hairy slab of groovy fun.