MINTY '66 '67 THE OTHER HALF - Hard Psych Garage RANDY HOLDEN BLUE CHEER GEM
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FULL DISCOGRAPHY = GARAGE/PSYCH SHAKER !
RANDY "GUITAR GOD" HOLDEN """IN ACTION"""
All NON-LP 45's and LP tracks = COMPLETE
THE OTHER HALF
\ Fr. EVA Records - 12003
***MINT CLEAN ***
Quite scarce limited edition that came out shortly some 34 years ago ... delivers the ENTIRE recording output of the mighty OTHER HALF circa 1966 - 1967 ... Total garage-flash-assault when talking hard rock from the sixties ...
"The Other Half" -- a powerful California garage punk band featuring a wicked guitarist -- none other than RANDY HOLDEN who turned the world on with his mega-watt guitar-bombs on 1969 BLUE CHEER #3 album as well as the 1970 cataclysmic guitar monster "Population II"
...here in 1967 HOLDEN drives The OTHER HALF with fiery fuzz & wah-wah guitar in a thrilling tight sound that climaxes on the long two-part epic "What Can I Do For You" Holden's echoplex feedback howlings turned a lot of heads to his abilities way back THEN....
The Other Half formed in Los Angeles Southern California, later moved to San Francisco. They played several shows at Chet Helms Family Dog shows at the Avalon Ballroom. Their music was strongly influenced by Yardbirds and Rolling Stones. Guitarist Randy Holden had been offered the chance to replace Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds before joining The Other Half. The Other Half were at their peak when the music scene was at its height in San Francisco and the Flower Power movement in full swing in Haight Ashbury. Their style changed from an earlier vocal based garage band, to the loudest big stage band sound of the time, taken in that direction by former Sons of Adam guitarist Randy Holden. Their sound has been compared to The Yardbirds, and contained elements of blues, hard rock, and Eastern melodic influences. Holden left the band after their debut album was recorded, dissatisfied with the recording and the guitar he was playing at the time, later stating "I was trying to accommodate everyone else, at the expense of my own soul and happiness". Despite Holden's misgivings, the album has been described as "awesome incendiary rock'
As to the bonus, NON-LP 45's:
Mr. Pharmacist was the A-Side of their first single, released on G.N.P. Crescendo in November of 1966. It would be their only release on that label. The band would relocate to San Francisco and move to Acta Records after this debut. Mr. Pharmacist, written by singer Jeff Nowlen, is a raver in the first order. Baritone vocals, wailing harmonica, grimy guitar, and an absolutely brilliant guitar solo from Randy Holden. Holden had come over to The Other Half from LA garage band, The Sons of Adam.The flip-side of the single ain't so bad either. I've Come So Far features a pounding rhythm and a less aggressive approach, vocally and otherwise, than on the A-side. To this listener it reminds us a lot of the work that Zakary Thaks of Corpus Christi, Texas were doing at that time for J-Beck Records. Great guitar work from Holden and Yardbirds styled interplay with the harmonica. Plus it drops a Kinks reference in the lyrics. In fact, the vocals sound so different that I believe it may be Westen singing, and not Nowlen.
The OTHER HALF continued with the formidable wailing fuzz hard garage attack on their next two tracks, the A & B sides of "It's Too Hard" and "I Know" ... afterwards their LP was released on "Atca" which ended their all too brief OTHER HALF
Introduction 1:50
Feathered Fish 2:38
Flight Of The Dragon Lady 2:36
Wonderful Day 2:21
I Need You 2:46
Oz Lee Eaves Drops 2:29
I've Come So Far 2:23
Mr Pharmacist 2:30
Bad Day 2:18
Morning Fire 2:27
What Can I Do For You (First Half) 2:45
What Can I Do For You (The Other Half) 6:57
No Doubt About It 2:29
It´s Too Hard (Without You) 2:15
I Know 2:45
CONDITION: The Cover: Very fragile and solid all over, rated: M- everything very stiff, all seams are tightly intact, no split seams, no writing... This is a collection copy getting rarer by the day.
The Vinyl: clean and clearly shiny smooth, rated: M- plays excellent with NO PROBLEMS...play graded very clean ...The labels are both clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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