DR STRANGELY STRANGE "Heavy Petting"  (extremely rare Vertigo LP from 1970)

Title: "Heavy Petting" Artist: Dr. Strangely Strange Year of Issue: 1970 Label: Vertigo Cat no: 6360 009 Stamper codes: 6360009 1Y//1 1 1 & 6360009 2Y//1 1 Country of Issue: UK Gradings
Record: Visually VG/VG (has a number of very visable marks, but plays EX, with no jumps, skips or distracting background noise) Sleeve:
VG (has damage to flaps, see photos) Label: EX

Further Information/Comments A rare and sought after LP on the highly collectable Vertigo label. This copy is visually graded as VG/VG, but play grading would put it clearly as EX.
On their first album, Irish band Doctor Strangely Strange declared themselves to be "strangely strange but oddly normal," and by their time of their second effort, 1970's Heavy Petting, it's possible that "oddly normal" no longer applied. The spiritual cousins of the Incredible String Band, although less rooted in folk traditions, their music flitted around like a butterfly, rarely settling anywhere for long -- and certainly never for the length of an entire song. "Gave My Love an Apple," for example, begins as a folk ditty, and then morphs into an extended electric bluesy guitar solo that has little to do with what went before. Childlike in its innocence, the album seems eager to taste all the possible flavors of music in a short span, making it a miracle that it holds together at all, let alone as well as it does. For make no mistake, Heavy Petting is something of a hippie joy. Joe Boyd's production is pristine, and the playing is well above the amateur standard of so many bands of the ilk, even if the frequent left turns of the material -- try "Summer Breeze" and "When Adam Delved" as examples -- makes things disorienting, but in a good way. If you're willing to expect the unexpected, you'll love it. ________________________________________________________________________

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