Ant Trip Ceremony

Oberlin, Ohio 1968 Ant Trip Ceremony was a free form psychedelic rock band based at Oberlin College. The band was together in the 1967/8 school year and released an LP in the spring of 1968 primarily as a document before the members graduated and went their separate ways. As the end of school neared, the band recorded some of the original songs and some covers with the help of fellow OC student David Crosby (not THAT David Crosby). The recordings were done on campus but mastered at Cleveland Recording. Three hundred copies of the LP was pressed at Pama and sold at the college bookstore and hand to hand. The LP is an excellent document of a unique time. Although the band was clearly influenced by the San Francisco psych bands, many of the songs have a solid rock and roll background, thanks to the members earlier experiences in rock and blues bands.