ALICE COOPER EASY ACTION - Psych Garage RARE WB 1970

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ALICE COOPER 

EASY ACTION

...USA - Warner Brothers (trees label)

RARE vintage vinyl pressing of immensely great psychedelic classic recorded in 1970.

 EASY ACTION

Accurately called "the great undiscovered" Cooper album.  This pre-Bob Ezrin album, Easy Action, created with help from Neil Young producer David Briggs, might be the perfect picture of an evolving Alice Cooper Group. "Mr. & Misdemeanor" has Cooper beginning to define his nasty trademark vocal style: "Here's new pretties for you/nobody likes me but we adore you." Cooper became known for writing two-and-a-half- to three-minute catchy tunes with negative themes, augmented by longer pieces toward the end of the recordings. With that in mind, this is almost pre-production for Love It to Death, although the band is more inventive here. "Shoe Salesman" could be Strawberry Alarm Clock, and this clone British pop/punk would've been a nice arena for AC to continue dabbling in, had Ezrin not transformed them into hard rockers.  Easy Action gives evidence that Cooper has more of a voice than he got credit for. "Still No Air" has a sci-fi slant, a slant they could've taken up when the members departed from Cooper and became the Billion Dollar Babies. "Below Your Means" is almost seven minutes of early Who-style musical investigation. There is that great West Coast Jefferson Airplane sound throughout, some hybrid of L.A./U.K. garage rock and psychedelia. Side two opens with Return of the Spiders, with upfront fuzz guitar.  "Laughing at Me" is very similar to Bowie's "Man Who Sold the World." There's the cryogenic "Refrigerator Heaven"; a very British pop "Beautiful Flyaway," which is listed as fifth on the album cover, but is actually the fourth track; and "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye," a seven-minute-and-30-second song which clearly sounds like it belongs on Zappa's record label. That this band could run the gamut from Zappa to Bowie, and perhaps inspired both, makes Easy Action a good study and entertaining record, one of the two best Cooper Group Lp's and an essential psychedelic glory collectible!

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CONDITION: the gatefold cover is clean solid and stiff VG++  (tiny wear starting, very solid, no split seams, no bends, no writing anywhere) ...

The vinyl is all glossy M-  plays clean !

    A  GREAT ADDITION  TO ANYONES COLLECTIBLES!

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