CRAIG SMITH - Love is Our Existence LP Death Rock he was ready to record

he was ready to record an LP—five psychedelic folk/rock tracks

when Charles Portis lovingly lampooned the city’s ambitious

and with a heavy dose of goth ethos

Keeping a band together was difficult in the late 1960’s

Meeting her not only changed my life in one reality bending heartbeat

CRAIG SMITH - Love is Our Existence LP Death Rock he was ready to recordCraig 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