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It can be said that wherever the good spaceship the Velvet Underground touched down, weird bands started to spring out of the soil. The Velvets appeared in the Cleveland, OH, area no less than 14 times between 1968 and 1971, and by 1973, Cleveland's Mirrors were playing the local high-school dance and saloon circuit, with a sound reminiscent of the Velvets, but also throwing in a dash of humor, some hard-rocking post-psychedelic grooves, a nod to the progressive strain current at the time, and even some avant-garde musical experimentation. Mirrors (without a "The") was founded by Jamie Klimek, a Cleveland-based songwriter and singer who had attended every one of the Velvets' Cleveland shows and is said to have recorded them from the audience. Reports vary as to when the band got started; some set the date as early as 1971, but Klimek states that it wasn't until April of 1973. The basic lineup consisted of guitarists Klimek and Jim Crook, bassist Craig Bell, and drummer Mike Weldon. I...