NICE 1969 PROMO = ALICE COOPER "EASY ACTION" Hard Psych ACID LACED FREAKBEAT

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• EASY ACTION
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• USA - (WHITE LABEL PROMO) WARNER BROTHERS - 1845
  

1. Call this "the great undiscovered" Alice Cooper album. Pretties for You is a difficult record, and Love It to Death is a classic, yet this might be the perfect picture of an evolving Alice Cooper Group. 
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3. "Mr. & Misdemeanor" has Cooper beginning to define his nasty trademark vocal style: "Here's new pretties for you/nobody likes me but we adore you." 
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5. Alice Cooper became known for writing two-and-a-half, three-minute catchy tunes with negative themes, augmented by longer pieces toward the end of some recordings. With that in mind, this is almost pre-production for Love It to Death, although the band is more inventive here. The outstanding "Shoe Salesman" could be Strawberry Alarm Clock meets The Beatles -- they had not transformed it into hard action. Easy Action gives evidence that Alice has more of a voice than he got credit for. "Still No Air" has a sci-fi slant, a slant they could've taken up when the members departed from Cooper and became the Billion Dollar Babies. "Below Your Means" is almost seven minutes of early Who-style musical investigation. There is that great West Coast psych/rock blend throughout, some hybrid of L.A./U.K. garage rock and psychedelia (this material would fit nicely on a soundtrack for American International Pictures). 
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7. Side two opens with "Return of the Spiders," with upfront twisting fuzz guitar leads. One wonders if this was influenced by David Bowie or if David Bowie influenced it? Both artists emerged around the same time, with Alice Cooper under Frank Zappa's wing, for better or even best. "Laughing at Me" is very similar to Bowie's "Man Who Sold the World." There's the freezing infectious "Refrigerator Heaven"; and, a wonderful British-like popsike nugget called "Beautiful Flyaway," and "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye," a trippy seven-minute+ song which clearly sounds like it belongs on Zappa's "Straight" record label. That this band could run the gamut from top notch psych melodies to UK styled popsike gems, inspired by both Zappa & Cooper, making Easy Action a clever study and a timelessly entertaining record. 
8. One not to miss -- for all its twists & turns
   
9. Mr. and Misdemeanor
   Shoe Salesman
   Still No Air
   Below Your Means
   Return of the Spiders
   Laughing at Me
   Refrigerator Heaven
   Beautiful Flyaway
   Lay Down and Die, Goodbye
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11. The cover: rated: near M- in eye-striking RED gatefold cover, even IF found is usually far more worn, talking 57+ years onward regarding a highly wear prone cover...this ones pretty clean carefully handled, having no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...Little signs of previous use,  and really clean shiny vinyl playing top level