With their new manager, Lord Tim Hudson, and a knack for outlandish live performances, the band's public profile was at an all-time high as they embarked on their first national tour and TV appearances.

[5] On January 29 the group recorded the similarly themed "Flower Lady and Her Assistant" with added vibes and percussion, the outtake "Sad and Alone" and an anti-drug track called "Rides Too Long".

The record label was eager for product but because the new sessions were still underway, another single from 1965, "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" was re-released as a stopgap measure and also performed well, peaking at #41 that spring.

[5] On the 19th, a string quartet arranged by Hooper accompanied the band on the flower ballad "Painted Doll", and on the 20th, Saxon brought in friends and roadies to watch him sing the psychedelic "Six Dreams" on a carpet with incense.

[5] On April 24 two new songs, "Chocolate River" and "Now I'm A Man" (originally named "Contact High"), were attempted but the former was left on the cutting room floor, with Daryl playing a 12-string Rickenbacker on the latter.

On May 3, 8, and 12 there were overdubs of tabla to "Travel With Your Mind", sitar and gong to "Six Dreams", and harp to "March of the Flower Children" and "Fallin'", as well as the spoken word intro to the album which lends it a concept feel.

Saxon had embraced the psychedelic scene in the band's own take on the genre, with new instrumentation more prominent in the recordings including the piano, trumpet, harp, sitar, flute, oboe, harpsichord and percussion.

[2] Although Saxon, under the pseudonym Marcus Tybalt, is solely credited with production, in the liner notes to the album's reissue Daryl Hooper claims that it was more of a band effort, as he had done most of the arrangements.