And now a recording of Philadelphia’s psychedelic folk outfit Espers playing Blue Öyster Cult’s Flaming Telepaths. This bootleg was recorded at Diana Wortham on Friday August 14, 2009, during Harvest Record’s Transfigurations music festival. My friend Lydia photographed the entire festival, and she has some stunningly good shots.
By the way, an ‘esper’ is a person who is capable of telepathy, so it is fitting that they’ve chosen this song to cover.
[audio:Espers_FlamingTelepaths.mp3]I posted a few others — you can find them here > Transfigurations Bootlegs
Don’t know the original? Check it.
Hell yes, this blew my mind.
I’m probably being an idiot, but how can I hear this? Espers are one of my favourite bands but I can’t figure out how to hear this live version. Thanks
Hi Martin, looks like I used a Flash plugin on this old post. Glad you liked it though, it really was a great performance. Here’s a direct link to the audio file that you can download. http://blog.afletcher.net/audio/Espers_FlamingTelepaths.mp3 I don’t blog that often anymore — sorry it took a while to get back to you. Cheers!