100% UNKNOWN FIBERS- ODD LOTS MONSTER RARE CA PRIVATE HARD ACID PSYCH LIVE MINT

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INSANELY RARE live LPdocumenting the Laguna Beach Christmas Happening festival in December 1970. TheLP was probably pressed in 1971. The festival featured a lot of local unknownunderground psych bands and was closely tied to legendary LSD distributors theBrotherhood of Eternal Love. Patrick of Acid Archives has researched andwritten a terrific article describing the festival and LP in detail.
Also, anyone interested in psychedelic or sixties culture should read therecently-published book "Orange Sunshine" which tells the fascinatingstory of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.
Only ahandful of known copies exist of this monster psych rarity. Some copies camewith several inserts pertaining to the festival, but this copy has none.
Here are some excerpts from the Acid Archives article, describing the LPitself:
"About 25 years later, in the late 1990s, word was starting to spreadamong rare record specialists about a mysterious album titled “100% UnknownFibers”. The record showed no track list or credits whatsoever, and from therubber-stamped sleeve and old pressing it was assumed to be a bootleg,manufactured in the early 1970s. The problem was that noone could figure outwho the artist being bootlegged was, as it didn’t sound remotely like anyonefamous. As questions were asked, a few more copies of “100% Unknown Fibers”were identified in collections around the US; in total about a half-dozenwere accounted for.
An Orange County newspaper back in 1970 mentioneda few participating bands such as Sound Spectrum and Primal Scream, as well asthe aforementioned Sea & East Utopian Mission, but gave no details of theirperformances.
It must be mentioned that “100% Unknown Fibers” is a primitive recording withpoor sound quality, even as private pressings go. It’s likely to be an audiencetape, rather than from soundboard. The music is mostly jammy acid-rock typicalof the era, predominantly instrumental workouts on Hendrix and Cream riffs,with lots of raw fuzz leads and some vocals. One track has a trancey folkrockfeeling, including flute. All over it is reminiscent of some of the Yahowa 13basement jams, like those heard on “I’m Gonna Take You Home”, minus Father Yod.There’s some nice grooves and feedback soloing here and there. It’s hard todetermine how many different groups are featured on the album, but my guess isthat it’s at least four different outfits, as the mixing and soundscapesdiffer, even while most of them are stylistically similar. A high point of the LP is the inclusion ofseveral microphone raps from the Laguna Greeter and others, including the pleafor Thorazine quoted above. One guy goes into a hostile rant about war, Nixonand Angela Davis, before being cut off with the reminder that the festival isabout “love, not aggression”. The stage announcements combine with the crowdambience, hovering police helicopters, and raw, improvised music to capture amoment in time, warts and all.

FANTASTIC CONDITION ALL ROUNDTOP ALBUM!!!!

NOT A BOOTLEG! 

THIS IS A TRUE HOME MADE LP OF UNKNOWN ARTISTS RECORDED AT THE 1970 LAGUNA BEACH CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL AND HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COLLECTABLE TO HIGH END PSYCHEDELIC AND PRIVATE HARD ROCK LP COLLECTORS!!  VERY FEW KNOWN COPIES!

BEAUTIFUL NEAR MINT ORIGINAL!

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