'69 UK "STABLE" Orig "ESCALATOR" Sam Gopal STONED ACID PSYCH "Piper" FLOYD PSYCH
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RARE 1969 BRITISH "STABLE RECORDS" FIRST PRESSING
TEXTURED GATEFOLD COVER!
ALL-TIME U.K. ACID-ROCK EXTRAVAGANZA !
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SAM GOPAL
" Escalator "
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"made in England" - STABLE RECORDS - SLE 8001
SUPER "wanted" / rare 1969 FIRST British issue of the glorified "Escalator" by the Sam Gopal group. Well known as to have contained Hawkwind/Motorhead legend "Lemmy" who put more than a spark in any line-up he ever joined. As to that, Sam Gopal is among the most enhanced & rewarding albums when talking late '60s UK underground psychedelia...sit it next to Pink Floyd's "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" ....read on:
This "SAM GOPAL ~ ESCALATOR" and The Deviants’ second methedrine-damaged offering, “Disposable” are the only albums we know of released on Simon Stable’s fabled Stable label, the same as in "street casual" and doped up affairs.
Sam Gopal was fronted by the young tabla player of the same name as Sam Gopal Dream, an acoustic raga-without-sitar group that had previously performed at London's UFO club and other hippy U.K. venues. But by the time they recorded this, their first album, Mr Gopal had added not only "acid"-guitar, but also former Jimi Hendrix’s roadie, Ian “Lemmy” Willis to the lineup on further fuzzed-distortion guitar and vocals. We can only imagine it was in all certainty against Gopal’s will he started knocking them into a fiercely drivin rock outfit whose only missing ingredient was a drummer, but the loping bass-lines often operating as a rhythmic substitute do the trick.
"Escalator" is weirdly mixed and a super crude production, completely tipped in the favour of Lemmy’s vocals and often searing fuzz guitar, making it sound even more imbalanced. The sum total of percussion on this album is tabla, finger cymbals (on one track) and either a session drummer or Gopal forsaking his ancestral instrument for a rented drum kit on the “You Really Got Me” hijack, “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” A squeezed and barely reigned-in fuzz guitar rebounds all over the place uncontrollably as a youthful Lemmy sings “The face in the mirror is screaming insanely” over the blistering rave up. And all the remaining tracks sound as rough, down at the heels and hunkered down as the band members themselves. In fact, all the tracks are about as drugged and unglamourous as the members of Sam Gopal themselves: which, from one look at the cover shot, is an achievement as they all look ‘street’, stoned and pissed off as hell.
This album pre-dates Lemmy’s induction into Hawkwind’s ragged ranks by several years, but the germ of Hawkwind’s (and in time, Motörhead) “The Watcher” is in the wildly fuzzed and equally-strung out “You’re Alone Now.” On other tracks the bass player seems to be playing very crude early Motörhead runs, so they may have been parrot-taught or even played by Lemmy himself. One of them is “Escalator,” opening up directly in a double-tracked careening guitar solo screech out over the lyrics “And if you think you love me livin’, baby/You’re gonna love me when I’m dead.” It’s a hip-shaking rocker looking desperately for a drummer to rock it out. Backing session singers on a cover of “Season Of The Witch” is the only concession on the album, probably a result of coaxing from their rough trade seeking and ultra-straight producer Trevor Walters, whose picture was the only thing adorning the back cover besides the record label’s logo.
Side A
"Cold Embrace" 3:20
"The Dark Lord" 3:40
"The Sky is Burning" 2:30
"You're Alone Now" 3:41
"Grass" 4:03
"It's Only Love" 4:18
Side B
"Escalator" 2:49
"Angry Faces" 4:03
"Midsummer Night's Dream" 2:14
"Season of the Witch" 4:27
"Yesterlove" 4:55
CONDITION: The cover: rated: VG++ (slight wear per usual) and that's about great considering the original UK heavily black textured gatefold is one of the most all-time of wear-prone probabilities. That being said, this copy, light wear survivor from 48+ years gone by ...There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... highest recommendation and VERY collection worthy to say the least ...
The vinyl: Rated: nearest M- smooth and clear over all tracks, minty audio represents a gorgeous example of this underground legend...gotta be the best vinyl around... for sure collection copy ...
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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