KEITH WEST Sam PSYCH BELGIAN Tomorrow Steve Howe YES

	£		19
	$		25

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Dear rock record collector , before you read the discription of this record , first THE STORY,

I just bought a HUGE , INCREDIBLE collection lp’s ( around 1000 ) and vinylsingles ( around 2850 ) from a famous Belgian radio dj .... , he was dj from the Belgian National radio station between 1965 and 1978 . In this time he collected all these “rare” vinyls,(keep in mind that this is his PRIVATE COLLECTION and not the radio collection !!) . When he came at home with his new stuff , he put the record on tape or his REVOX , reel to reel recorder and put all records in his huge bookcase ( record case ), they nearly never played more than once ,  he always listened to his tapes .... meanwhile he was also Salesmanager for Polydor Belguim.After 1978 he left his job and Belguim for what it was and went to work in Asia , he never bought any record after this period anymore , all lp’s stayed in Belguim in boxes in a dry room for nearly 20 years !

In this collection you gonna see nearly all first pressings in MINT or NEARMINT condition !

We talk about Progressive , Psychedelic , Folkrock , Beat , Folk , Jazz and Countryrock ... .

I am not going to give a list of what’s inside because  this is too much work , i just gonna put every week new ones on aution, it’s a STUNNING collection !!! Everytime i gonna try to keep the discriptions brief , to the point and no 2 hours reading or psychological ploy to induce you into a state of mind numbness, the discription is what you get !!

One last thing , i guarantee all the conditions in my listings and offer a refund to any buyer who is not satisfied with my gradings , i’ve bought enough rubbish in the past that was over graded beyond belief ( as i’m sure you all have ), so i’m very aware of the need to grade correctly , i hope the foto’s below do this lp justice , as it truly is !

HAVE A NICE BID !!

KEITH WEST

A /  SAM

B /  THIMBLE FULL OF PUZZLES

If ever a "secret history" is written of British psychedelic rock, Keith West will surely have one of the leading roles. As the lead singer and principal songwriter of Tomorrow, he was a guiding force of one of the first and best British psychedelic bands, even if their one album (with a lineup that also featured Steve Howe in his pre-Yes days) was little heard beyond the London underground. West got his feet wet in the British Beat boom as singer in the obscure mod/R&B bands Four + 1 and the In Crowd, the latter of which evolved into Tomorrow after Steve Howe joined. While Tomorrow was still a going concern in 1967, West launched a simultaneous solo career, releasing a few solo singles (some of which also input from Howe) in the late '60s. The first of these, "Excerpt From a Teenage Opera," was an unexpectedly huge smash, reaching number two on the British charts during the summer of 1967.

"Teenage Opera," a convoluted story about the death of a grocer named Jack, was rather fruity in both lyrics and production (prominently featuring a too-cute children's chorus). But this ornately arranged slice of pop-psychedelia (with the accent heavily on the pop) had some moments of real grandeur, and has been said to have been an influence on Pete Townshend at a time when he was mulling over prospects for a rock opera of his own. The British press hyped the hit as part of a forthcoming full-length opera, but, in fact, nothing else had been written, and a projected double-album never materialized. West did release one more installment as a single, the even more rococo "Sam," a perhaps too-ambitious orchestral-psychedelic production that briefly made the British Top 40.

West's solo success hindered the career of the much less pop-oriented Tomorrow, who had yet to even release their album when "Teenage Opera" hit. Although West was far more interested in working with Tomorrow than staging whimsical pop-psych operettas, the difficulty in balancing the two concerns led to Tomorrow's premature demise in 1968. West did manage to release another solo single (unrelated to any operatic concept) and record some reasonably interesting unreleased material, which (as in his Tomorrow days) were frequently narrative character sketches of archetypically eccentric Brits. He hasn't done much recording since the early '70s, although he produced a few (unknown) bands, worked with his old partner Howe occasionally in the studio in the '90s, and produces music for television and radio commercials. He is one of the foremost cases of unrealized potential of the British '60s psychedelic scene.

LABEL : PARLOPHONE R 5651

COUNTRY : BELGIAN ISSUE

YEAR : 19??

 MEGARARE TO FIND IN ANY CONDITION !! 

CONDITION COVER :  NM ( small number front ) EXTREME RARE BELGIAN SLEEVE !!!

CONDITION RECORD : NM - (nearly never have been played )

CONDITION LABELS : EX  ( very small leftover from removed sticker )

ON THE LABEL : MADE IN BELGIUM

PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED WITHIN 10 DAYS OF THE CLOSE OF AUCTION.

IF YOU HAVE A FEEDBACK RATING OF LESS THAN 10, THEN PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING OR YOUR BID WILL BE CANCELLED. I KNOW YOU'VE GOT TO START SOMEWHERE, BUT 80% OF NON PAYERS HAVE A FEEDBACK RATING OF LESS THAN 10. ANY BIDDER WHO HAS EXCESSIVE RECENT FEEDBACK FOR NON PAYMENT WILL HAVE THEIR BID CANCELLED STRAIGHT AWAY

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• Shipping Rates:
  Belguim : 2.50 euro / 5 dollar / 2 pounds

Europe : 5 euro / 9 dollar / 4 pounds

World : 6 euro / 10 dollar / 5 pounds