PAT KILROY Light Of Day 1966 ORIGINAL ELEKTRA ACID FOLK PSYCH genius LP LISTEN

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PAT KILROY "LIGHT OF DAY" LP

ORIGINAL 1966 LP ON THE US ELEKTRA LABEL, STEREO EKS-7311

COVER IN GOOD shape due to some water/moisture damage on back cover

VINYL plays EXCELLENT to NEAR MINT!!!

Star-crossed acid folkie from Berkeley transported to the Greenwich Village scene in 1966 - Pat Kilroy's sole LP is an odd mix of straight blues and envelope-pushing Eastern-influenced cosmic folk psych that is now FINALLY being recognized for being way ahead of its time, and certainly the trippiest album on Elektra in 1966.  Remember, this was still a year BEFORE the Incredible String Band's 5000 SPIRITS.  Pat's West Coast roots show through on magic carpet trips like "Pipes of Pan," whose trippy Eastern vibes and tablas rub shoulders with Jew's harp and California guitar, like some Topanga Canyon Tyrannosaurus Rex, a cosmic campfire unlike anything else in the New York scene.  Other songs are even more far out, like "The Fortune Teller", "The River" and "Star Dance."  Sadly, Pat was too far out for the Greenwich Village scene, but back home, the Bay Area embraced his Eastern philosophies more readily, leading Country Joe and the Fish's Barry Melton to say "A lot of us had at least some kind of investment in the spiritual side in those days - at least as much of it as was available on a sugar cube - but Pat was the real deal."  Unfortunately for us, he passed away on Christmas day 1967 while working on an album for a more appreciative Warner Brothers label, leaving behind just this one lonely, but incredibly unique, acid folk masterpiece.  It took the rest of us all these years to catch up.

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