Fifty Foot Hose

The Profile

Fifty Foot Hose are an American psychedelic/electronic rock band from San Francisco, formed in 1967 by bassist and electronics builder Louis Marcheschi with vocalist Nancy Blossom and guitarist David Blossom. Their landmark album Cauldron (1968) fused primitive electronics, garage, folk, psychedelia, and musique concrète. They reunited in the 1990s and released Sing Like Scaffold.

Pioneering San Francisco group integrating homemade electronics into rock; core members included Louis Marcheschi with the Blossom duo; known for Cauldron and tracks like Red the Sign Post and If Not This Time.

Two reviews celebrate Fifty Foot Hose’s fusion of garage grit, primitive electronics, folk atmospheres and distorted psychedelia. Cauldron is praised as a time-bending trip with proto-ambient and noise interludes and standout tracks like Red the Sign Post and Fantasy. Sing Like Scaffold is framed as a late-era dialogue between noise and song. Overall sentiment is strongly positive.