Artist description Catchy Tunes, Sweet Harmonies, Heavy Guitar

Similar Artists Hendrix, Beatles, Lennon, Dylan, Byrds, Clapton, CSN, Cream, The Grateful Dead, Iron Butterfly, Blues Magoos, Guided By Voices, Camper Van Beethoven, Matthew Sweet, Dinosaur Jr, Radiohead

Artist History Formed in a parallel universe and later transported to earth via a distortion in the time-space continuum.

Group Members Skip Regan (guitar/vocals), Rich Lamb (keyboards), Rich Pagano (drums)

Albums Welcome To My Head

Press Reviews What Can I Do would remind me of the Dead and early Beatles, if they did pop music together. The harder chords/notes of the Dead and the lightness of the Beatles in the days of ‘help.’ A well written pop song with a nice, easy commercial appeal. Getting slightly heavier and altogether more appealing with Spontaneous Combustion, Opia seems much better focused and suited when they make their music psychedelic. it’s not that What Can I Do is a bad song, it’s that Spontaneous Combustion is so much better and shows much more quality and range. A powerful take on psychedelic music designed to be heard loud so that the listener can experience the sonic grandness of the song in full. Beautifully layered and entirely enticing, this is a song to lose yourself in. — Raw42 Review ==================================================== What Can I Do? by Opia. A track that reminds me of all things Liverpool i.e Beatles, The La's and Cast etc despite this band hailing from Santa Cruz, USA! A very very catchy 60's inspired pop tune with lots of melody and harmonious vocals. - Tom's MP3 Review ==================================================== Neo Psychedelic consisting of fuzzy, lilting guitar melodies and suitably dreamy, airy vocals. Far from a bad trip, these guys take their Kool-Aid straight. - Listen.com ==================================================== Takin' It Down: This seemed to be the perfect tune to kick this thing off this time. Guitar intensive and psychedelic. The keyboards toward the end made me drop a beer. Peace and love, and all things groovy - more flower power Y2K. - Jingo's Picks (station) ==================================================== Spontaneous Combustion: Well it's by Opia. They're cool, this song is cool, and you'll feel cool if you listen to it. Its really that cool. - Chester's Musical Theatre of Wonder (station) ==================================================== Spontaneous Combustion: The layers of guitar sound very good, the vocals aren't too "over the top". This sounds a bit like Incubus. That’s a good thing. The voice wavering changing thing gets a tad bit annoying after a while, but I can live with it. The electric guitars rock! This song is designed to create a subtle emotional response. Opia doesn't seem to care about writing "hits," which is fine with me. Great song guys! Download it NOW!! - hitsession.com ==================================================== Out to capture my heart and soul, Opia offers up probably the coolest feeling tune I have heard since Smashmouths "Walking on the Sun". "Takin' It Down" is flat out jet streaming groovey with a banshee of a keyboard solo and hot hot guitars that melt into the blender of cool. If you don't dig this one, well call your momma and tell her she failed. - Buttermilk Picks The Monster Hits (station) ==================================================== Opia's latest release "Welcome To My Head," which sounds like a potent mix of thick guitar soup, spacey lyrics and plenty of mind altering feedback. Eventually the psychedelic cauldron, to advance the metaphor initiated by the band's title, approximates a mix between Pink Floyd, the Beatles and the Grateful Dead, where hints of Hendrix and modern alternative rock surface. Opia's true talents surface on All Grown Up. Certainly the guitar chops and blues changes are recycled from Big Brother and the Holding Company, but Opia's playing and singing fits the late 60s, Ballroom sound perfectly. As a whole, All Grown Up contains the albums finest harmonies(extremely Beatle-esque), best lyrics and most fluid guitar solos. Sophists will cry foul, but Opia does something here, which works, despite avoiding modern musical nuances. - Christopher Orman (jambands.com)

Additional Info Visit Opia's website at... =================================================== http://www.parapsychedelia.com =================================================== Click on the GO TO ARTIST'S WEBSITE link above to hear more Opia music, get the latest news and information about upcoming releases, read interviews, join the Opia mailing list and lots of other weird trippy stuff

Location Santa Cruz, CA - USA

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