1966 MONO LEATHER COATED MINDS TRIP Garage Psych

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RARE 1966 =MONO ORIGINAL= RARE COLLECTIBLE                    

       The Leather Coated Minds

       A Trip Down The Sunset Strip

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                              USA - VIVA RECORDS - V 6003 - MONO

Always was hard to find even in the sixties due to the small label and small production, here's a nice 1966 first pressing in bold mono of an interesting & happening guitar led garage jammer of the day....

The Leathercoated Minds were a Los Angeles group, formed for the express purpose of exploiting both the sound and image of the L.A. psychedelic scene circa 1966-1967. Their sole record, the LP A Trip Down the Sunset Strip, was issued on the small Viva label in 1967. The LP featured twangy leads & fuzz guitar drenched garage cookers of some of the hippest hits of 1966 — "Eight Miles High," "Psychotic Reaction," "Over Under Sideways Down," "Sunshine Superman," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Kicks" — as well as a few psychedelic originals such as "Pot Luck", Sunset & Clark", "Arriba" etc.

While the Leathercoated Minds is an inarguably superb name for a rock & roll band, the sad truth is it didn't really belong to a group at all. Producer and entrepreneur Snuff Garrett wanted to put together an album designed to give clueless, would-be hipsters an idea of what a night on Hollywood's fabled Sunset Strip was like; he'd already chosen a snazzy cover photo, and needed some session cats to throw together some garage/psych music to go along with it. Garrett hired a then little-known musician named J.J. Cale to produce the album and play lead guitar, and Cale's fleet guitar picking is all over this album. Cale overdubs a handful of Roger McGuinn-style lead lines all over "Eight Miles High" and "Mr. Tambourine Man," he throws some twang-centric psychedelia into "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Sunshine Superman," and contributes some enjoyable originals with titles like "Sunset and Clark" and "Pot Luck." Cale and his partners (no one's sure just who they are besides Roger Tillison on vocals, though Cale's buddy Leon Russel is probably playing keyboards) probably worked this album up in a couple afternoons, but it sounds like they were having a good time doing it, and the picking is uniformly fine while the arrangements are a shade more imaginative than one might expect for an album like this.  A Trip Down the Sunset Strip to is a fun listen with plenty of crackerjack guitar work, and it has the good sense to wrap up its business without extended filler; those with an interest in either J.J. Cale or pop culture garage/psych of the period will want to give it a spin                               

Eight Miles High
Sunset and Clark
Psychotic Reaction
Over Under Sideways Down
Sunshine Superman
Non-Stop
Arriba
Kicks
Mr. Tambourine Man
Puff (The Magic Dragon)
Along Comes Mary
Pot Luck

Leathercoated Minds:
*J.J. Cale: Guitar
*Roger Tillison: Vocals
*Leon Russell: Keyboards
*Others musicians are unknow.

CONDITION: The cover is solid, looks displayable as fine hipster art of 1966, VG++ to EX (excellent) with the front cover around "EX" and the back cover with the starting of a little shelf wear but nothing close to a problem...all in all, a keeper that no one interested would put back.

The vinyl is all glossy, maybe inner sleeve like hard to see scuffs, VG++ to "EX" (excellent) plays excellently enjoyable 

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record