PATTO Hold Your Fire 1971 WLP Vertigo LP Prog PSYCH NM
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This Week at The TIME MACHINE we will auctioning a BIG Batch of RARE Psych, Rare SOUNDTRACKS, some odd SPOKEN WORD Documents -- & other oddities
Our store Time Machine Records & Books opened this Spring and we are already literally overflowing with new and extra-fab collectibles - The Shop is located at: 20 Union St. (front), Easthampton, MA 01027 - Right in the Center of Town, Across the street from BIG E Supermarket and next to BROOKs Pharmacy.
Rare and NEAR MINT Original WHITE LABEL PROMO lp -- Hard Rock / Progressive PSYCH -- USA issue on VERTIGO, with "Recommended Tracks" transparent sticker on front of Gatefold -- no cut-out marks
Their Second & Most Highly Rated album from 1971
Artist: PATTO
Title: "Hold Your Fire"
Year: 1971
Label info: VERTIGO Records (vel 1008)
CONDITION:
Cover: EX / NM
Record: VG++
ALL MUSIC GUIDE Review by Dave Thompson
Ignore the fact that the opening title track sounds almost exactly like the intro to Neil Young's "Ohio" and Patto's second album kicks into gear from the moment needle strikes vinyl. A driving fiesta of good-time bluesy-rock, Hold Your Fire retains just enough of its predecessor's jazz fusion sensibilities to ensure that you're never sure what will happen next, but similarly imbibes sufficient oxygen from elsewhere on the early-'70s British rock underground to line up alongside any other primal gem of the age. Certainly producer Muff Winwood seems considerably more at ease than he did his last time around, hauling Ollie Halsall's tuneful soloing high up in the mix and framing the album's best tracks -- the melancholy "You, You Point Your Finger" among them -- within some breathtakingly lovely arrangements. Another highlight, the funky Faces-like "See You at the Dance Tonight," almost single-handedly blueprints the best of the still-unborn pub rock boom, while Halsall's playful "Air Raid Shelter" would not have been out of place on Hold Your Fire, which further proves that not all of Patto's early instincts have been suppressed. Neither do the surprises stop with the music. Hold Your Fire was released in positively the most un-Roger Dean-like sleeve design to which Dean ever put his name. There again, vast spacescapes filled with floating islands and flying elephants were never really Patto's forte -- not when the alternative offers barefoot cops, scantily clad damsels, and hippies bearing colorful mushrooms.
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