Zerfas is the only album by psychedelic

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 group Zerfas

Zerfas

Zerfas was a psychedelic rock band out of Indianapolis consisting of brothers David and Herman Zerfas. They released one album, Zerfas, in 1973....

. It was released in 1973 to very limited success, but found a much larger audience in the early 2000s when the track "I Need it Higher" was featured on the American edition of the Love, Peace, and Poetry psychedelic music compilations. The record has been re-released on high-quality vinyl, and Zerfas' story is told on the 700 West website.

Chapter One

1. "You Never Win" (David Zerfas and Herman Zerfas)
2. "The Sweetest Part" (David Zerfas and Mark Tribby)
3. "I Don't Understand" (David Zerfas, Herman Zerfas and John McCormick)
4. "I Need It Higher" (David Zerfas)

Chapter Two

1. "Stoney Wellitz" (David Zerfas and Herman Zerfas)
2. "Hope" (Bill Rice and Herman Zerfas)
3. "Fool's Parade" (David Zerfas and Herman Zerfas)
4. "The Piper" (David Zerfas and Steve Newhold)

Personnel

• Dave Zerfas – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , background vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
  , lead vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Herman Zerfas – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , background vocals, guitar, bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , lead vocals
• Mark Tribby – bass, guitar, background vocals, lead vocals
• Bo Gooliak – bass
• Bill Rice – bass, background vocals
• Steve Newbold – bass, guitar, background vocals
• M. J. Whittemore, Jr. – elks horn

External links

• Album notes