Rick Brown

Rick Brown may refer to:

See also

Richard Shaw Brown

Richard Shaw "Rick" Brown (born in 1947) was the lead singer, harmonica player, and co-song writer of Psychedelic group The Misunderstood.The Misunderstood were a rock band originating from Riverside, California in the mid-1960s. The band moved to London early in their career, and although they recorded only a handful of songs before being forced to disband, they are considered highly influential in the then-emerging genre.

Richard Brown is currently working as a gemologist and Jewelry designer in Bangkok, Thailand, for Astral Gemstone Talismans, a brand known for creating fine gems-jewelry based on the Navaratna belief in Jyotish

Band

"The Misunderstood were one of the most innovative and enigmatic bands of the Sixties and one of the psychedelic era's best loved groups." Brown's most well-known songs, I Can Take You To The Sun and Children of the Sun, are considered psychedelic music classics. While working successfully with the band in London, the group broke up when Brown was drafted by the US Army to go to Vietnam, but being opposed to the war, he escaped from boot camp and left the country for India, where he was a fugitive for 12 years.Creem magazine, in a September 2004 review, write, "The saga of The Misunderstood is one of the most unbelievable, heartbreaking, and unlikely stories in the entire history of rock."