MINT 1969 ORIG COLOSSEUM - FOR THOSE ABOUT TO DIE FULL BLOWN PROG Psych
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~ 1969~ Original PROGRESSIVE ROCK Classic~
COLOSSEUM
F o r T h o s e A b o u t T o D i e, W e S a l u t e Y o u
\ USA - Dunhill - DS 50062
TOP COPY
BEAUTIFUL like new and 43 years old 'ARCHIVE' COLLECTIBLE!
Original 1969 first pressing in thick gatefold - one of the best copies we've come across of this early progressive rock artifact!
Colosseum's first, was and still is an ear-opener, showing what excellent musicians playing excellent music, can do. Drummer John Hiseman had played jazz and blues throughout England, Dick Heckstall Smith (who could do a Roland Kirk and play several wind instruments simultaneously), had long paid his dues with Graham Bond and John Mayall and had become one the better known UK musicians. While the then relative new names of James Litherland (guitar and vocals), Dave Greenslade (keys, son of a musician and bandleader) and Tony Reeves (bass and producer), contributed in their equal ways, to produce an album that remains a classic almost 39 years later...For whatever reason, the USA pressing -here (gatefold cover) and UK pressing contain different tracks from each other.
Highlights include ~ the best version of Graham Bond's great R&B tune "Walking In The Park", (although Bond's own version, released as a single a few years early, is a close second). The other tunes all cover a lot of musical space, as one might expect from the types of musician involved. Straight blues to jazz, and with Dave Greenslade's presence, there is a smattering of serious and even prog rock. The whole drives along, and because of the mix of musical styles and influences should hold your interest throughout, whether as slow burning blues or a more complex-based solo. Plain-bluesy "Plenty Hard Luck" is a great showcase of Litherland's vocals and Greenslade's organs. With "Kettle", we now reach a definitely more serious level of composing with bassist Reeves showing us the way to enlightenment and the path to many rhythm changes and time signaturess, this track is the first sign that this group had something really special and culminating in an unrefined (as in unpolished) guitar solo. Following tracks called "Debut" is according to them, the first thing they played, and is again quite happily-communicative and it does sound like the ideal training ground for a band to get their stuff and tricks together.
"Valentyne Suite"" is another brilliantly played tune and clearly is the same Bach chord sequence than Procol's Whiter Shade of pale, the tracks evolves into a harpsichord and searing bluesy guitar wailings while D H-S is wailing freely on his reeds. Poly-rhythms dictate a fairly paced and atmospheric track, while remaining very swingy as the piano takes over in boogie constrasting strongly with the wordless vocals scattings. Slow blues is again showing where Litherland's strengths were but ultimately, this would also prove his own undoing in the band as well. For a proghead, this track overstays a bit too much its welcome, but in its own genre this track is a killer. "those Who are About To Die Salute You" closing off the album is a very up-tempoed complex-laced RnB with plenty of rhythm and time signatures, Hiseman driving his drums like footsoldiers through marshes and swamp alike as the Roman emperor would if he was out to conquer new grounds. This album is a stunning progressive-rock debut.
1. The Kettle
2. Plenty Hard Luck
3. Debut
4. Those Who Are About To Die Salute You
5. Valentyne Suite
6. Walking In The Park
CONDITION: The Cover: the thick gatefold cover is super clean M - it almost squeeks when opened! No seam splits, no bends, no writing ...TOPS!
The Vinyl: is all glossy and smooth over both sides, M- super clean all over and has clean labels
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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