LEE MICHAELS - Ultra-rare 10th Album - Absolute Lee - 1981 Squish Records vinyl

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LEE MICHAELS - Ultra-rare 10th Album - Absolute Lee - 1981 Squish Records vinyl
Released in 1981 Squish Records NSFA 003
The tenth Lee Michaels album. A mail order release distributed on Michaels' own Squish label.
Track Listing:
Side 1 - Steal My Love You Don't Know Didn't You Sex Symbol Spring Find It We Love the Night
Side 2 - You've Got All the Answers Whiffle Song Shallow Dream I Hear Laughin' Mass Murder Music Lie to Me Messico
All songs written and performed by Lee Michaels.
Lee Michaels - keyboards, vocals Allen Wehr [formerly of Morning Glory]- Drums Produced by Lee Michaels Engineers - Joe Q. Hall, Scot Skidmore Cover - Mary Hughes Recording - Spectrum Studios, Venice Beach, Ca.
The cover was at one time put on display with a staple gun, and there is staple damage in the form of holes and small tearaways at the corner areas. Other than that, only minor age, wear and use. The disc is about EX minus, with only the most minor wear and handling, and the faintest marks here and there. Many would describe it as unplayed, but I could detect a spindle mark on the side 2 label, so someone in the past at least listened to side 1.
The scarce nature of this vinyl LP cannot be over-emphasized. The pressing would have been extremely limited.
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BACKGROUND:
Lee Eugene Michaels (born Michael Olsen, November 24, 1945, Los Angeles, California) is a rock musician who performs vocals and accompanies himself on organ, piano, or guitar. He is best known for his energetic virtuosity on the Hammond organ, peaking in 1971 with his Top 10 pop hit single, "Do You Know What I Mean".
Career: Michaels began his career with The Sentinals, a San Luis Obispo, California-based surf group that included drummer Johny Barbata (later of The Turtles, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship). Michaels joined Barbata in the Strangers, a group led by guitarist Joel Scott Hill. Michaels later moved to San Francisco, where he joined an early version of The Family Tree, a band led by Bob Segarini. In 1967, he signed a contract with A&M Records, releasing his debut album, Carnival of Life, later that year. As a session musician, he played with Jimi Hendrix, among others.
Michaels' choice of the Hammond organ as his primary instrument was unusual for the time, as was his bare-bones stage and studio accompaniment: Usually just a single drummer, most often a musician known as "Frosty" (Bartholomew Eugene Smith-Frost) a member of Sweathog, or with Joel Larson of The Grass Roots. This unorthodox approach attracted a following in San Francisco, and some critical notice (Sounds reported that he had been called "the ultimate power organist"), but Michaels did not achieve real commercial success until the release of his fifth album.
Album Fifth (1971) produced a surprise US Top 10 hit (#6 in the fall of 1971), "Do You Know What I Mean", an autobiographical homage to the loss of a girlfriend, and a Top 40 follow-up, a cover version of the Motown standard, "Can I Get a Witness" (#39). Michaels recorded two more albums for A&M before signing a recording contract with Columbia Records in 1973. His Columbia recordings failed to generate much interest, and Michaels went into semi-retirement from the music industry by the end of the decade.
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