John Phillips '70 US 1st press LP John The Wolfking Of LA EX+ * dark psych folk

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Band/Record: John Phillips - John Phillips

Label/Matrix: US 1970 ABC/Dunhill DS 50077 with ,,archive sticker''

Condition Record/Sleeve: EX+/EX- (cover light aging wear, small archive sticker)

Extra Info: Fantastic Album !! Original US 1st press LP on Dunhill. His fantastic "darky" psych/folk solo album". Wow ..ex+  dream audio ... VERY RARE !!

~~ Led by John Phillips, the Mamas and the Papas were one of the seminal pop/folk groups of the mid to late sixties. During the bands brief run as a fixture on the billboard charts, Phillips wrote such classics as “California Dreamin,’” “Creque Alley,” and “Monday, Monday.”

By 1969, the Mamas and the Papas had disbanded. With hopes of getting the group back together, Dunhill records signed John Phillips to a contract which allowed him to record a solo album and pursue his other artistic interests. The deal also included the promise of another Mamas and the Pappas album. Instead, Phillips concentrated on his first solo record and never reunited with the original Mamas and the Papas lineup again.

John Phillips (John, the Wolfking of LA.) was originally released in 1969 to limited success. Sad, since Phillips was able to get some of the era’s best musicians of the era, including Elvis Presley’s guitarist James Burton, steel guitarist Buddy Emmons, drummer Hal Blaine, and backing vocals by Darlene Love among others. The opportunity to listen to the playing skills of all the musicians involved in Wolfking makes the album a must have, for any John Phillips fan.

Recorded at the end of the sixties, during the height of the counterculture, the freedom of Woodstock, and the terror of the Manson murders that gripped Los Angeles, John Phillips (John, The Wolfking of L.A.) is a mix of both the happy highs of drugs (more specifically heroin), and the despair of losing grip of reality, all with a country-folk backbeat. Phillips would struggle with heavy drug problems most of his adult life; much of it well documented in various tabloids from the late sixties to the late eighties.

Many of the songs on Wolfking of L.A. seem to document John’s decent into addiction. The lyrics of “Topanga Canyon,” “Sometimes I drive out to Topanga and park my car in the sand, watching and waiting for a pick up from my man. In “Drum Junkies,” a group of junkies steal his drum so they can “put them in their arms.” “Let It Bleed, Genevieve” deals with the true story of how John’s wife Genevieve, lay upstairs having a miscarriage as he was on the floor below, unconscious after a drug binge.

While John Phillips (John, The Wolfking of L.A.) is a dark and brooding record, it is also a great one. Wolfking shows John Phillips tremendous talents as a writer, producer, arranger and singer. Sadly, the album is also a reminder of how much damage drugs have done to some of rock music’s greats. As I listened to Wolfking, I couldn’t help but wonder how many more great songs there would have been if drugs hadn’t become Phillips’ best friend for so many years

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