KHAZAD DOOM Level 6 1/2 1970 PRIVATE PRESS MONSTER HEAVY ACID PSYCH PROG ROCK LP

	£		27
	$		36

KHAZAD DOOM: LEVEL 6 1/2  One of the rarest and best of all U.S private psychedelic garage pressings. This is it boys, the legend, the album, the music, that has led us down the ever twining world of collecting private pressings. And we were never to be the same after it was made... In 1964 the band who was later to be called Khazad Doom started to dream of "making it" in Bob Davisê basement in little ol' Morton Grove, Illinois. After 29 members and multiple names (The Vibratos, The Laymen), three musicians and a "Crow", they formally became Khazad Doom and the legend was born. Jack Eadon, Tom Sievers, Steve "Al" Yates and Steve "Crow" Hilkin became the band that was full of talent, dreams and perserverence. The original album "Level 6 1/2" was released circa 1971 in reportedly just 180 copies making it a mega rarity immediately. Of course who would care about an obscure piece of psychedelic conceptual vinyl? The answer... many collectors worldwide rate the album in the top 5 of all private domestic releases ever! In fact, originals fetch over four figures now! Put this great album on, sit back and take that much needed trip with Khazad Doom to Level 6 1/2 and beyond...” This is the long gone reissue. The cover is in near mint condition and the record is in mint condition. 

 

Khazad Doom were an obscure prog rock group that was ahead of its time, they were active from mid to late sixties. 
Contrasting the different styles of the two chief songwriters of Khazad Doom, the songs by Eadon are warm, compassionate, romantic, nostalgic and flow with beauty. Yates' songs are colder, darker, earthier and have melancholic depth. To fancifully draw on the lyrics of "Stanley's Visit to Kerkle Morff": Eadon is Stanley, the hippy, creative genius, dreaming of flying, and confounding the disbelievers by floating away amongst the Clouds; and Yates is King John, a fine and noble ally, a sovereign master upon a solid and secure throne. It is easy to imagine that the richness of Khazad Doom stems from the fusion of the two styles, and, as with any admirable band, credit goes to Sievers, and Hilkin. I know it's a cliché, but the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts is rarely truer than when accounting for the alchemy of bands.
There is an unforced manner to Khazad Doom, an aspect to them that is sincere and heartfelt. When contrasted to today's cynical music industry pap, Khazad Doom is summer wine to a thirsty traveller. Khazad Doom's music bears the corrosions of time. The music has admirers, and, as long as it is so, we may know there are pockets of taste, colour and compassion out there. It is amazing that Khazad Doom didn't "make it", although, in a sense, they did. (Jim Eadon)
Side 1: Exerpts from The Hunters, The Prelude; In This World; Nothing To Fear; Music Side 2: In The Den; The Golden Yellow Meadow; Nacissus; Excerpts from Uncle Gilroy's Crazy Son
Jack Eadon - Guitar, Vocals Tom Sievers - Bass, Vocals Steve "Al" Yates - Organ, Vocals Steve "Crow" Hilkin - Percussion
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