FRIAR TUCK And His Psychedelic Guitar LP MERCURY 1967 US orig+mono MG21111 RARE
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FRIAR TUCK
Friar Tuck was a stage name for L.A. session guitarist Mike Deasy. The Friar Tuck album is essentially a Mike Deasy solo album made with the help of Deasy's studio friends. The March 1996 edition of Guitar Player Magazine lists the Friar Tuck album as being in Jimi Hendrix' personal record collection.
"FRIAR TUCK AND HIS PSYCHEDELIC GUITAR"
Produced by Mike Deasy for My Company
1967 LP MERCURY RECORDS MG 21111 MONO
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE COVER
THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)
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LABEL: MERCURY - RED LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (front, spine) MG 21111 (rear) MG 21111 / SR 61111
Catalog on labels: MG-21111
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 2/61111 A 1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 2/61111 B 1
On labels: MONAURAL
On back cover: Excerpts From Friar Tuck's Reading Room Required Reading for Full Satisfaction of this Album
Vendor Mercury Record Corporation Printed in U.S.A.
tracklisting
Side A: SWEET PEA - LOUIS LOUIS - WORK SONG - ALLEY-OOP
Side B: ALL MONKED UP - ODE TO MOTHER TUCK - A RECORD HI
FENDABENDA HA HA HA - A BIT OF GREY LOST - WHERE DID YOUR MIND GO
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It would be all too easy to simply write this off as a mere exploitation knock-off designed to catch naive hippies. It certainly is that, but it also has the hand (and voice) of Curt Boettcher all over it, and it features Mike Deasy, heavy L.A. session cat and sometime-member of Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew on guitar, musical arrangements and producing. Consisting of about half covers and half originals, the album could hardly be considered truly psychedelic (mostly thanks to the Boettcher vocals) but it is quite interesting in its own way. Deasy's arrangements are strange and wonderful with some hot guitar playing and liberal use of the echoplex. He gives "Louie Louie," the quintessential simple rock & roll tune, a wildly elaborate arrangement, virtually re-creating the tune entirely. He gives Nat Adderly and Oscar Brown, Jr.'s "Work Song" an echoplex and guitar intro, inserts a bit of twang then goes into a classical sounding passage and back. Oddly enough, it also sounds reminiscent of the Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction"! Deasy's ultra-stoned sounding vocals on "Alley Oop" are hilarious...(AllMusic)
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