Craig Smith's journey from the mid-'60s to the early '70s was an almost prototypical one in the Los Angeles rock community, but perhaps exaggerated to extremes. Like many, he started his recording career in fairly normal pop folk-rock, and got into stranger psychedelia as time went on. He also got into stranger lifestyles, apparently, with shades of Eastern philosophy, drugs, and the occult. What also set him apart from others in the Southern California milieu was his utter obscurity, his recorded legacy largely captured on a couple of extremely small press-run LPs in the earl...