GLASS OPENING All Those Lies '70 FEMME GARAGE PSYCH 45

$

96

WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

GLASS OPENING "All Those Lies" b/w MAJOR SIX "Virgin Of Time"

Original 1970 45 on the DONDEE label

Vinyl:  Plays VG+ (B-side plays VG)

AMAZING crude lo-fi tone-deaf rich doctors' daughters garage madness from the Glass Opening (comped on A Trip In Tyme #5), so inept and insane you'd swear these girls were sorority sisters with the Shaggs!  Sounds like a similar story here - the girls can't sing or play but daddy's got money and the keys to a recording studio, so in go the babes one day to lay down the only song they've managed to practice well enough to even come close to the structure of a song.  The lead singer can't find the right key, or any key for that matter, the organist sounds drunk, and there's a guy (probably Dad) who's providing similarly off-key backing vocals (but if you're not in the same key as a singer who's off-key, does that make you in the right key?).  Despite all this, there's a wonderful real-life garage quality to this one, just like the Shaggs, and despite it's crudeness, they were able to afford some pretty good stereo production on it.  Exhausted by their effort to create something well beyond their talents, the Glass Opening girls passed out on the floor of the studio after recording "All Those Lies," leaving the B-side available for another Minnesota band, the Major Six, who took the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lay down their progressive rock lounge band supper club homage to Blood Sweat and Tears called "Virgin of Time."  Musically more proficient than the girls' effort, with fancy horns to boot, it's like they wanted to be King Crimson but could only get somewhat close to the Ides of March.  And what the f*** is a "virgin of time" anyway?  

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