BOB DESPER : Rare Private Acid Loner Folk Psych LP

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BOB DESPER : New Sounds (Rose City Sound RCS 740920)1974...Rare and great private press acid folk masterpiece that defines the loner/loser singer songwriter genre and then surpasses it...This guy is blind and almost every song sounds like it's gonna be his last!...below is about the best review that could be bestowed upon this record from a very astute Texan, from the Acid Archives website:

The Pacific Northwest is a dark, dank place, with a suicide rate higher than Keith Richards on a four day binge. Even their most articulate native son, Kurt Cobain, drowned in the sea of despair and offed himself. And what's the cause of this environmental depression??? It may be the constant grey skies and rain, it may be the extremely high runaway and homeless rate or it just may very well be the music of Bob Desper. Bob recorded his "New Sounds" LP in one take at the local Rose City Sound studios. Just him, his acoustic guitar and an amazing insight to the dark side of the human psyche. So dark in fact, that only a blind man can see it. Bob is that man, and on this LP he taps into a place that very few people have visited. His voice is quiet with an edge sharper than a Ginzu knife. His lyrics reflect a lonely man who recognizes the shortcomings of human kind. This LP gives me goosebumps each and every time I play it. Side one starts off with "Darkness Is Like A Shadow". A spooky, echoey tune where Bob introduces a topic that becomes a re-occurring theme throughout the entire LP, the fact that people with eyesight are blind to the things that are truly important in life. "It's Too Late" and "Lonely Man" follow and continue the introspective soul search, all accompanied by Bob's extraordinary guitar playing. The fourth and last cut on side one is "To A Friend Of Mine". This is where I usually start thinking about going into the bathroom and slitting my wrist with a razor blade just to prove to Bob that I could begin to understand what true suffering is. This 15+ minute journey is, in my opinion, the most flawless chunk of downer/loner folk music ever recorded. Side two is good, but pales in comparison to it's flip side. Songs are "Let It Shine For You", "Don't You Cry For Me", "Liberty" and "Time Is Almost Over".

.....The Cover has some light wear on the edges and some light ringwear =VG+.....The disc suffers from a noisy pressing (even sealed copies do)...Side 1 visual VG++ with some surface wear, but plays with surface noise...Side 2...Track 2 side 2 has heavy groovewear/ worn/damaged grooves that makes the middle of the song unplayable and skips...it's not one of the better tracks on the lp, but still problematic...rest of side looks VG+, but again is a noisy pressing......This is not a lp that grows on trees and where is BOB???? .....NO RESERVE!!....SEE PICTURES BELOW........CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE RARE BLUES FOLK FUZZ PSYCHEDELIC PSYCH PROGRESSIVE PROG , HARD HEAVY ROCK , CHRISTIAN , XIAN PRIVATE PRESS PRESSING LP'S....

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