KIT REAM All That I Am RARE Private Outsider Psych 1978 Acid LSD CA Weirdo

Creative Records MW1001. @1978.

LP is in EX+ condition: clean with a few sleeve marks and very little use evident.

Jacket is VG+ with a dinged corner and a 1/2" bottom seam split.

This is truly one of the most whacked-out genre-UNdefining albums we've ever heard, and we're big fans of such. This guy gives Bill Fay, Gary Wilson, Brian Wilson, Charles Manson, and the Fugs some competition in the field.

Lyrics from the first track: "I have not said I'm better, and I have not said I'm worse - but I have an idea concerning the universe. The wheelchair general with his head on wrong - or the long haired singer with his wine and song.  To say that I love you with a bomb - or to sing that I hate you: that ain't wrong.  I know better than what you give.  All I ask is a chance to live; my way or your way it's all the same. 'Cause if no one's hurt, there's none to blame. No... I've not said I'm better, and I've not said I'm worse - but I do have an idea concerning the universe.  Always in hell, as I'm sure you can tell.  I see you are blind, so I'll take the time... to teach. You must keep in tune just as the moon, which is never too late or never too soon. Here, there, and everywhere you people be real.  We must congeal and strip the seal.  I'm not saying I'm better and I'm not saying I'm worse - but I have the idea concerning the universe.  I really do... now you hear it through."

Jello Biafra says (in Incredibly Strange Music Vol 2): "The most deranged ‘rich person do-it-yourself’ album is All That I Am by KIT REAM, heir to the Nabisco cookie fortune. According to someone who knew him, he dropped tons of acid in the '60's and wound up in a mental hospital where he spent six months staring at his own reflection in a mirror. Eventually the acid wore off, he was deemed ‘cured’ and let loose in society, whereupon he decided to become a guru and make a record. From his maniacal expression you can see that this is a man who has seen it all and knows that he has ‘the answer’….. he chants lines like ‘Don't be so holy, poly, over my soul-y.’ As far as I know his cult is still vastly outnumbered by Maharaj Ji, Rajneesh and the Moonies."

ACID CASUALTY PRIVATE OUTSIDER DIY BURNOUT PSYCH FOLK FUZZ

Impossible to classify, this album touches on nearly every genre.

HEAR the music HERE  (not this actual LP).

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