BLACK CAT BONES Come Aboard QE2 1969 NON-LP HEAVY PSYCH like Cream LP LISTEN

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VARIOUS ARTISTS "COME ABOARD!  QE2" LP

ORIGINAL 1969 LP on the UK SCEPTRE label, STEREO SALR 1216

COVER is in EXCELLENT shape

VINYL plays EXCELLENT

PHOTOS COMING TOMORROW

Stupendously RARE pr0m0tional LP for the QE2 cruise ship, sold only on the ship itself and at its ports of call, this is pretty much a bizarre spoken-word "tour" through the ship for Side 1, and you wonder why this thing is so highly sought-after.  But then, on Side 2, the narrator takes a stroll on down to the ship's discotheque, "where the girls are spinning the records."  And suddenly this KILLER wailing Led Zeppelin on ampethamines psycho blaster comes charging out of your speaker like an MC5 song in the middle of Masterpiece Theatre, and that's Black Cat Bones by the way performing a non-LP song that, thanks to the album's complete lack of liner notes, is still only known as "QE2" to this day (it's been comped on a Cherrystones CD I think).  At any rate, it's a pure heavy Teutonic gem, with a chuggin' Valhallan rhythm section, wild snakey ADD-riddled guitar leads, wailing Led Zep harmonica, and a lead vocalist who's channeling Jack Bruce at his most mysterious (think "As You Were").  Now, is this REALLY the kind of music you'd find playing on the QE2 back in 1969? 

Here's what one blog had to say about this album:

"Would you believe it? One of the most eagerly sought of all 1960s psych records is, erm, an audio description of the maiden voyage of the liner, the QE2? For most of its (fairly short) duration, the only thrills are provided by Richard Baker or a selection of sounds from life on board what at the time was the world’s most luxurious commercial passenger liner. Oh, but then, two minutes into side two, the barely-recorded Black Cat Bones turn up in the liner’s little onboard discotheque with a fabulous little beat-driven monster, smeared with some very tasty guitar courtesy or either Rod Price, later of Foghat, or Bob Weston, later of Fleetwood Mac. Worth $600 just for that? You decide. The rest of the record is perhaps of more marginal interest to all you psych freaks, but we rather like its secondhand air of the glamourous life. How the other half live, eh?"

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