Bill Bissett & The Mandan Massacre Psych LP Awake in the Red Desert 1968 RARE

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Bill Bissett & The Mandan Massacre Psych LP Awake in the Red Desert 1968 RARE

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Bill Bissett & The Mandan Massacre Psych LP Awake in the Red Desert
 

This is an ultra rare 33 rpm LP record titled “Awake in the Red Desert” by Bill Bissett & The Mandan Massacre.  Bill Bissett was born in Halifax, but settled in Vancouver and became known as the “Godfather of Canadian Poetry” - Jack Kerouac called Bissett “one of the great poets”.  He was the target of a censorship campaign by a Conservative member of the House of Parliament in 1977, who cited his work as “disgusting and pornographic”.
 

The record is hard to describe.  It features Bissett speaking his poetry in a “concrete” spoken word style, part Eastern Mysticism, part Shamanistic, part rant, part slam, part beat, certainly psychedelically influenced, with raw sounding background sounds and music.  I guess “speaking” isn’t really accurate because it’s more performance oriented with verbal accentuations put to striking effect.  Whatever, this recording is certainly a testament to the time - listening to it puts one right back to 1968, but at its most fringe-like mystical Hippie head space.
 

I’ve listened to the record and have cleaned it with the Disc Doctor’s Miracle Record Cleaner.  Visually, the vinyl has light scuffing, a few light scratches and a large spot on the fourth track of side one that doesn’t sound at all.  There are some audible ticks particularly on cut 2 of side 1 and the beginning of side 2, but most of the rest of the record is fairly clean.  I guess that I’d have to grade it as VG due to the ticks at the beginning of the sides, but overall it is more of a VG+. This is such a rare record that some background noise should be tolerated - this is still a very listenable record.  The cover rates a NM-, the minus due to a bit of yellowing to the edges, a function of the type of cardboard used and age.  

This is an ultra rare pressing and a bit of a treat - not everyone’s cup of tea, but certainly an important testament to the late 60s.......please check my other auctions for high quality and hard to find Canadian poetry LPs....
 

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