M- RARE 1971 ORIG BOOMERANG Hard Wah-Wah Psych VANILLA FUDGE JAMMER
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RARE 1971 HARD melodic blues-rock'n'-psych cooker VINYL ORIGINAL!
BOOMERANG !
\ USA - Rca - LSP 4577
*CLEAN* ORIGINAL 1971 first pressing (the Lp was NEVER repressed) = a rarity and hard to find - the Lp does not turn up often!
After Vanilla Fudge broke up, Timmy Bogrt & Carman Appice went to form he mighty CACTUS, while the flamboyant organ /vocalist Mark Stein formed BOOMARANG, a hard hitting underground rock quartet with a 16 year old guitarist who rips it up !!!
So after Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice leave Vanilla Fudge to form Cactus, singer/organist Mark Stein disbanded the Fudge and founded Boomerang with James Galluzi on drums, Jo Casmir on bass and helping with the vocal duties, and Ricky Ramirez, who was 16 years old at the time on guitar. They only released 1 album, although rumor has it that a second was recorded, before calling it quits. Yet another crying shame because the potential here was phenomenal!
This lone self titled album consists of only 7 songs, 3 of which are absolute monsters. Starting with those first. Juke It, Cynthia Fever, and The Peddler are slammin' world class hard rock; on par anything the other heavies of the day were putting out. Not an inkling of sounding dated or too beholden to the 60's. This was full on cool hard Rock. Juke It is a slowish pummeling guitar/organ groove with a bridge/middle section that has a mean, mean guitar riff that just brings a sneer to your face. This leads to some greasy guitar soloing slinking around overdriven Hammond organ.
Cynthia Fever has a Deep Purple kind of Maybe I'm a Leo funk to it. Stein and Casmir trade off delivering soulful vocals and then more greasy wah guitar soloing over nasty Hammond.
The Peddler is also a slowish, hard groovin' tune driven by the dual assault of guitar and Hammond riffing. About halfway through it breaks into a heavy shuffle for trading of smokin' solos between guitar and Hammond B3 over a slamming drum/bass groove.
The sounds on this album are great. Killer guitar tone, wonderfully overdriven organ, growling bass, hard rocking drums complete with an urgent effective mix.
The rest of the record, while well written and performed, in the melodic hard vein, not rising to the same heights of masterful riffery. The Fisherman is an Allman Brothers rural-ish rock tune. Hard Times brings out the acoustic guitars for some 70's straight ahead rock, and Brother's Coming Home is a keys-driven ballad, complete with arrangements. It does build to a kind of cool symphonic complex interlude in the middle. Mockingbird is a blues shuffle with Stein and Casmir again trading vocal duties, occasionally breaking into harmony.
While the other tracks are good, it is the big 3 tunes on this record make it all worththe find (the album is quite rare/hard to find). Yes, they are that good. It is hard to believe that Ricky Ramirez, who sank back into obscurity after Boomerang, was really only 16 years old, based on the maturity,tastefulness and just sheer rockingness of the guitar playing. The bass playing and drumming are equally cool. What happened to those guys? no one knows, but this band of unkowns along with the Vanilla Fudge's Mark Stein constituted a formidable crew. Much moreso than a lot of other bands that had more lasting careers.
1. Juke It
2. Fisherman
3. Hard Times
4. Mockingbird
5. Cynthia Fever
6. Brothers Comin Home
7. The Peddler
CONDITION: The Cover: is a very fragile textured type of material = they don't make covers like this anymore ...remember this was 1971 ...no seam splits (lucky for this fragile one) near "EX" (excellent) = usually IF found it's dirty as the cream color matte cover shows soil easily = which accounts for the relatively careful handling with this cover over the past 40 years...there is a little aging on back cover and delete notch at side of pocket ...
The Vinyl: is TOP COPY M- showing no marks and playing beautiful ...
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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