BEGGARS OPERA Pathfinder 1972 VERTIGO Swirl 6360073 UK 1stP LP VG/VG+ BRILLIANT
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Description
ARTIST: BEGGARS OPERA
TITLE: PATHFINDER
LABEL + YEAR: Vertigo 6360 073, Vertigo swirl 1st label; 1972 UK 1st Press
Matrix details:
Side A: 6360073 1v//1?420 114
Side B: 6360073 1v//1?420 112
CONDITION VINYL: VG / VG+ graded as such due to some light surface scratches and hairlines: I have listened to this GREAT album and in two places low-level clicks can be heard, on track 2, Side A approximately 17 background clicks can be heard and on the same track later 5 clicks can be heard.
At the start of Side A there is a little crackle which soon settles down: this plays VG / VG+ without any skips or jumps and is still a really superb album, a masterpiece of its genre!!!
CONDITION SLEEVE: VG, it’s all in one piece but does show wear to folding edges consistent with age, (please see photos); with Original Vertigo Inner bag which is generally good and clean but is creased and has a couple of small tears at centre cut-out area
DESCRIPTION:
Side A:
HOBO
MACARTHUR PARK
THE WITCH
Side B:
PATHFINDER
FROM SHARK TO HAGGIS
STRETCHER
MADAME DOUBTFIRE
Personnel:
MARTIN GRIFFITHS – Lead Vocals
ALAN PARK - Keyboard
RICKY GARDINER – Lead Guitar & Vocals
GORDON SELLAR – Acoustic & Bass Guitar & Vocals
RAY WILSON - Drums
Review by Dave Thompson
Beggars Opera's third album offered up another dramatic change in pace and style from a band that had already demonstrated its musical schizophrenia well enough. Considerably more song-oriented than either of its predecessors, Pathfinder set out its stall with the pounding pop of "Hobo" before delving deep into period preoccupations with a truly visionary assault on "MacArthur Park" -- imagine Vanilla Fudge if Brian Auger had created their arrangements. Eight minutes seem too short a time in which to layer all of the group's ideas, but they succeed with room to spare, and deliver what is probably the definitive reading of the song. The pulsating "The Witch," the fusion and folk-inflected "From Shark to Haggis," and the closing menace of "Madame Doubtfire," with its glance back at the soundscapes of Act One, are the album's other highlights -- particularly if you catch them on headphones. From beginning to end, though, Pathfinder is a powerful record, dramatically produced and deliriously delivered, a wild smorgasbord of musical innovation and staggeringly brilliant ideas.
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