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Written by Mr wonderful
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 21:06 |
THE SEARCH PARTY - MONTGOMERY CHAPEL (circa 1969/1970) RAPTURE RECORDS At the risk of sounding like a show off, let me first say that i feel particularly privileged to be one of the less than 2000 people that have a copy of this record. About two years ago on a visit to Flash Back a member of staff had this record on, upon hearing it I didn't pay much attention to it especially because I had my mind set on whatever it was I was listening to on my headphones, but slowly my original choice of dismissing or ignoring the record had to be itself ignored. Anyway cutting the long story short, I asked what it was and was told I probably will never find it, a year later a dealer from Italy told me he had a copy of this in which I let go of £100 or so, £100 a bit steep but not when you know that original presses of the record are going for over a £1000.00 (my copy was repressed in 1994). The Search party is a group of five young immensely talented Christians who created this record to spread the good word. It's a Christian record a Christian folk / psyche record the likes that I have never heard before, and was named after their place of worship (read more to hear track from album) |
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Written by Mr. Wonderful
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:28 |
THE HOLLIES - FOR CERTAIN BECAUSE (1966) CLOWN - PARLOPHONE - RON RICHARDS Let's be totally honest the Hollies were a paupers Beatles - a very poor pauper, and as far as I am concerned got even worse after Graham Nash left to join David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Neil Young (to a certain extent) to form the legendary Crosby, Stills and Nash. However their fifth album "For certain because" - (released as Stop! Stop! Stop! in the States) was their first dabble into the realm of psychedelic music, and of all their albums that I've heard- and trust me I've heard a few - This is the one that stands out. Overall the album is still pretty pop-py in keeping with their squeaky clean / sugary sweet image, but a couple of tracks do stand out "suspicious look in your eyes" is a beautiful 60's pop tune, the track "Clown" on the other hand is not what you'd expect to hear on the album. I can possibly imagine during writing the album they decided "ok guys i think we should play it a little bit risque at least for one track just to show we can also fit into this whole psychedelic movement that's all the craze" - which explains why the track is only two and a bit minutes long - the shortest and best track on the album. It starts with some circus like music and then Bobby Elliot comes in on drums with a beautiful kick start, with either Allan Clarke or Nash on vocals - the rest of the track then carries on at the same pace it's almost like an interlude or skit in the album but with beautiful vocals and simple yet brilliant lyrics. (Read more to hear track)
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Written by Vipers
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Thursday, 19 February 2009 00:03 |
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Poe Through The Glass Prism is an oddity. It's a rarity. It's.. everything you would hope for in a psychedelic recording. Mr. Wonderful introduced this album to me about 4 years ago - he'd hunted it down and I'm yet to find out where exactly he had heard about it. For a while we were playing rare 60's records at parties and 'El Dorado' would always be a killer break to drop (you can listen to the track we played out below...)
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