DOG OF NAZARETH It's Not The Heat 1975 RARE PRIVATE GARAGE PSYCH LP Beatles HEAR

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DOG OF NAZARETH "IT'S NOT THE HEAT...IT'S THE HUMIDITY" LP

ORIGINAL 1975 LP ON THE UNI GON LABEL, STEREO

COVER IN MINT shape, still in shrinkwrap

VINYL plays EXCELLENT (played only once by the way)

Super RARE lo-fi basement garage weirdness with old-timey 30's leanings and general legal misgivings.  Not to be confused with Nazareth's HAIR OF THE DOG, which is about as opposite on the musical seesaw as you're gonna get.  They couldn't have possibly pressed more than 50 of these things back then, could they?  Even in 1975, this stuff was already dated, kinda like a Lovin' Spoonful meets Captain Beefheart vibe if there even IS such a thing.  I mean, this thing is SO unknown, there's only 5 hits on Google for it, and one of 'em carries a $600 price tag.  Suffice it to say, you'll probably never see another one for years.  Musically, it's real homemade acid-fried old-time garage and pop mayhem, like Grateful Dead if they jammed in the 30's.  And on a few tunes, they show a liking of the Beatles.  Now MOST bands who like the Beatles tend to "appropriate" their riffs - like the famous one in "Taxman" - Dog of Nazareth, however, go one step FURTHER on "Bored in Paradise" - they actually SAMPLE the riff, over and over, as the backbone of their song, with vocals that sound like proto-Dead Milkmen slacker cool.  Likewise, they sample the piano riff from "Hey Bulldog" on the freakily titled "Puppy In Chains," an acid-fried proto-industrial freakout that sounds like Tom Waits covering Captain Beefheart using Bruce Haack and Miss Nelson's old equipment from 1964.  Things get REALLY cosmic on the Hare Krishna/George Harrison tribute/sendup "Karma Karma Karma," a full-on Eastern bonghit headtrip with nagging chorus and lyrics like this:  "I eat your flesh, I drink your blood, there's more to life than pulling your pud.  You may think that you're insane, but someone left the cake out in the rain."  I dig their sense of humor, and their fondness for late 60's (and late 30's) cheese, but I sure wish I could figure out whether that's a chick or a dude on the front cover.  Super monster one-of-a-kind not for everybody but perfect for somebody drug-addled hippie commune National Lampoon subscriber backward thinking art refugee madness that's probably one of only a few dozen remaining in this world.  Give this dog a home.

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