MINT BEAUTY 1968 ● THE PULSE ● POISON RING ● HARD HEAVY BLUES FUZZ PSYCH ROCK

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• MINT ORIGINAL 1968 FIRST PRESS
  
  1968 HEAVY BLUES PSYCH JAMMER !
  
  TOP FINAL COLLECTION RARITY !
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• USA - POISON RING Records - APR-2237

1. Here's the ORIGINAL you've been looking for !

1. RARE and SOUGHT
2. mighty 1969 original (killer-rated) heavy FUZZED blues rock LP in thick gatefold ...on the obscure Poison Ring label
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4. At the end of the summer of 1967, two popular New Haven-based bands broke up at the prodding of manager/producer Doc Cavalier, who owned Syncron Studios (later Trod Nossel) in Wallingford. Three members from "the Shags" and three from psych band "Bram Rigg Set" joined to form The Pulse (the actual original name was The Pulse of Burritt Bradley).
   
   After a failed single released on ATCO, The Pulse of Burritt Bradley broke up after about six months.
   
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6. Pulse, in a new PULSE direction, was a blues psych/rock outfit
   
   In January, 1968, Pulse started rehearsing daily playing some live dates then began recording its only album with impact blues psych rock moves.
   
   Sought in underground LP circles, 1968 HEAVY blues-psych Pulse injected melodious mixes in but one delightful now eagerly collected album
   
   
   The New Haven (CT) six-piece released a very scarce 1967 45rpm disc inspired by a "Burritt Bradley" headstone to create a creepy, spoken word, suitable-for-Halloween B-side of their lost 1967 (non-LP) Atco records release. Around a year+ later they released this album on their producer’s tiny "Poison Ring" label, The album is bursting filled with bluesy jamming, a la Cream and Blue Cheer (whose 1st LP was then also just released earlier in ’68), and actually pre-dates the first LP's of future hard-rock heavyweights like Led Zeppelin and Grand Funk Railroad.
   
   Hearing this for the first time in well over 50+ years one would be amazed in the pounding driving rhythms of opener, “Too Much Livin’” foretells a great similarity thrust of The Doors’ “Roadhouse Blues,” which was still two years down the road. 
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8. Peter Neri’s searing guitar solo and Jeffrey Potter’s wailing harp solo highlight “Another Woman” with a gritty, Canned Heat vibe. Richard Bednarczyk’s boogie-jam keyboard rolls add a bar room shuffle to the down home good time funk of “Thanks For Thinking Of Me,” which also predates the sweaty, bluesy snarl of 'Humble Pie' and 'Mountain.' Vocalist Carl Donnell being from the Leslie West school of throat shredding vocal pyrotechnics and it’s his tendency to go off the deep end been known to turn-on a few listeners.
   
   “She’s Killing Me” has a distinct Cream and Hendrix aroma, featuring another of Neri’s tasty solos. “Garden of Love” also pre-dates Led Zep’s penchant for tossing the odd change of pace, acoustic ballad in to the mix. So fans of their more reflective moments like “What Is and What Should Never Be,” “Thank You,” “Over The Hills and Far Away” or “Boogie With Stu” well may really dig this one in same. There’s even a little pre-Sabbath satanic rock weaving through “Amassilation,” which sounds like a term they invented on the spot!
   
   The band reportedly continued in this vein for a number of years, but unfortunately never achieved the success that many bands playing in this same territory would enjoy, so here’s your opportunity to experience a true, underground-rock artifact.

1.   CONDITION:
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3. The cover: rated: MINT incredible original THICK gatefold STILL IN FACTORY SHRINK WRAP ... highly known for being found with much cover-wear, obviously not intended to last past the 57 years this "looks like new" original has. A striking perfect original , strictly having no faded colors, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...flat & square with 4 sharp corners.
   

1. The vinyl: Rated: MINT looks like freshly opened and played maybe once... shine/gloss everywhere without ANY marks and both POISON RING custom labels are perfect