CRAIG SMITH - Love is Our Existence LP Death Rock when Charles Portis lovingly lampooned

when Charles Portis lovingly lampooned the city’s ambitious

by Daryl Sulfate

In the darkened

with only three of these tracks seeing the light of day as part of the "Flex Your Head" compilation

and with a heavy dose of goth ethos

CRAIG SMITH - Love is Our Existence LP Death Rock when Charles Portis lovingly lampoonedCraig Smith was an extraordinarily gifted songwriter and musician who seemed poised for a successful career in the 1960s music business until his life was derailed by drugs and schizophrenia. In 1969 clean cut, charismatic Craig Smith became Maitreya Kali, a dark, disturbed psychedelic Messiah figure with a black widow spider tattooed on his third eye. He laid out his strange vision on a self released double album Apache Inca (1972), which would