D.R. HOOKER The Truth LP/1972 US PRIVATE PRESS PSYCH MONSTER/Acid Archives
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D.R. HOOKER 'The Truth' LP (Belgium, Veals & Geeks, Catalogue #VAG 013) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2015 Veals & Geeks label LP edition of RARE TOP-TIER HOLY GRAIL 1972 US Private Press Psych Rock (with heavy "Acid Crooner Lounge Moves" ala Darius) album by Connecticut legend D.R. Hooker.
(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)
"It's a miracle any copies of this privately pressed album survived -- but be thankful it did, for here is an individual vision. Some people worry about when we'll run out of oil. A rather smaller proportion of us worry about when we'll run out of discoverable, deep-end thrills like this. There is just no way in the world items like Donald Hooker's 40-year-old privately pressed LP should even exist as a thing -- it more than likely only ran to about 99 copies in its original format, so how the hell did even one of those survive to create these new digital and analogue versions decades later? Connecticut-based Hooker -- a tall, slim hippy with a history of substance abuse -- was much given to wearing the sort of austere robe he sports on the sleeve, a fairly outré move even then. In early 1972 he hired a gang of local scene musicians to flesh out his wonderful songs and after a few brief rehearsals the band began recording. As soon as they were done they split -- some never even heard the finished album, and what a treat they missed. Hooker's arrangements are truly beautiful; a simple, swinging pop song like Weather Girl exists somewhere between the Doors and Curtis Mayfield, whereas The Bible ('If they're knocking the Bible, be sure they are bent/ Just see and you'll understand the book is heaven sent') has the propulsive drive of a pained George Harrison ballad crushed up against some of Neil Young's freeform, string-banging joy. Then there's The Sea, with its rolling religious allegories and the remarkable Free which marries a growling hard rock throb to a vampirically groovy synth line. Hooker's masterpiece is Forge Your Own Chains, which is part conga-led, lounge-funk soul and part, questing psychedelic dream. To think this entirely individual worldview would have once languished, unloved, in a series of under-the-racks cutout bins. And how much more magic like this is there out there?" --Rob Fitzpatrick, "The 101 strangest records on Spotify: DR Hooker -- The Truth," The Guardian, April 24, 2013
"The Truth is one of the big private press classics, and has been reissued enough times that most people should know it by now. The album covers all the vital bases in an impressive manner; the songwriting, his awesome voice, the elaborate psych-rock landscape, even the lyrics are excellent. The thematic range is truly mind boggling, going from ambivalent drug songs into pastoral hymns and ending up in full-blown Jesus praise. A good LP to play for your non-collector friends, although it's not without its detractors among mainstream psych heads, who can't handle the ego-mania and lounge moves that are part of what makes these 1970s albums so great." - Patrick Lundborg/Acid Archives
- Genuine reissue of D.R. Hooker's The Truth (1972) from the original audio sources; new analog transfer with improved mastering.
- LP version on 180-gram vinyl.
- "Hooker's arrangements are truly beautiful; a simple, swinging pop song like Weather Girl exists somewhere between the Doors and Curtis Mayfield, whereas The Bible . . . has the propulsive drive of a pained George Harrison ballad crushed up against some of Neil Young's freeform, string-banging joy." --Rob Fitzpatrick, "The 101 strangest records on Spotify: DR Hooker -- The Truth," The Guardian, April 24, 2013
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
A1: The SeaA2: Fall In Love
A3: A Stranger's Smile
A4: Weather Girl
A5: This Thing
B1: Forge Your Own Chains
B2: I'm Leaving You
B3: The Truth
B4: The Bible
B5: Falling Asleep Shipping in US is $4.98./CANADA AIRMAIL is $20.98./MEXICO AIRMAIL is $23.98./EUROPE & RUSSIA AIRMAIL is $24.98./ASIA, CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, AUSTRALIA AIRMAIL is $26.98. (Shipping totals will be consolidated for multiple winning bids.)
Record shipped in professional, superior rectangular shaped, corner-protecting corrugated cardboard record mailer with filler pads. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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