Although Peter Stampfel does not regard the album highly, it has received positive reviews and its opener, "Bird Song," was notably included in the 1969 film Easy Rider.

[3] The group included his girlfriend Antonia (who co-wrote some of the songs for the album), Sam Shepard on drums, Richard Tyler on piano, and John Annis on bass.

[3] Although Stampfel emphasized to Mohawk the need to force Weber to practice beforehand, rehearsals did not occur and the band ultimately entered the studio without a clear idea of what songs they were going to record.

[4] Ritchie Unterberger, who wrote the liner notes for the 2002 reissue, regarded "Half a Mind" as rivaling "some of Syd Barrett's solo work" as well as describing the album as "a triumph, a melange of mind-melting acid folk that might have hung together by a thread, but was usually exhilarating, with a cracked, brain-damaged mystique all its own.

He noted it reflected the music taste of Mohawk more so than of the Holy Modal Rounders[1] and that the excessive drug use and Weber's refusal to rehearse led to the album being a mixed bag.