David Clayton Thomas & the Bossmen"Sings Like It Is"NM
$
85
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1966/Cdn/Roman DRL102..........British born Clayton-Thomas moved to Toronto, Canada at age 6 as his parents were British-Canadian. From the age of 15 to 21 he spent a fair share of his time in and out of reformatories and learning to play guitar. By 1962 he had found something to focus his life pursuits on and with nothing but $20 in his pocket and his battered old guitar he began performing in Toronto night-clubs as Sonny Thomas. After a chance meeting at the legendary Club Bluenote, he led the Fabulous Shays on tour and to two hit singles - "Walk That Walk", "Boom Boom" and "Out Of The Sunshine" in 1965. From there the band was able to increase the pay scale at their club appearances and moved onto Le Coq d'Or which was Ronnie Hawkins' establishment. However, The Fabulous Shays soon split up and Clayton-Thomas took keyboardist Collacott to Yorkville Village in Toronto and formed the Bossmen, one of the first rock bands to incorporate elements of jazz. Their only hit single "Brainwashed" was released in 1966 and was an instant hit.........this is a super clean original pressing of his second lp with the Bossmen, lots of dirty fuzz and garage/r&b guts, the track "Brainwashed" is a monster!, the cover is clean with minimal light storage wear/light soiling on white back, no splits or delete!, the vinyl is in excellent to M- condition, has a shiny new look with only a handful of super light inaudible hairlines, a superb copy of this very rare lp!, please check my auctions for other Canadian garage, rock and psych lp's, good luck and thanks for looking!
