PSYCHEDELIC PLAN

From the genuine liquid light show to the guest appearance by the headlining, ever-Seedy Sky Saxon, the aura surrounding Plan 9’s local debut Friday at the Lingerie fairly screamed yellow zonkers. Taking its name from the cinematic sci-fi trash classic, the Rhode Island-based sextet has been characterized as a punkadelic garage band. Psychedelic ballroom band is more like it. Long set, long songs, long solos.

Led by unregenerate hippie guitarist/vocalist Eric Stumpo, the Plan ain’t much on showmanship, although you could easily busy yourself fantasizing that Stumpo and young, willowy keyboardist Deborah D kidnaped the rest of the youthful Plansters, fed them brown rice laced with experimental drugs stolen from the CIA and taught them to play this music as a backdrop to the weird weekend rituals that the townspeople warn tourists about. Despite a healthy dose of bone-rattling racket and a rare good taste in cover versions (MC5, Third Bardo), Plan 9 also reminded you why this scene was such a drag the first time around.