PHLUPH CLEAN 1968 Fuzz & Organ BOSSTOWN Garage PSYCH
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Psych fan? Then this is for you! You are bidding on a super rare LP PHLUPH - SELF TITLED
1968 USA – VERVE RECORD – V6 5054 release.
Not many were pressed and sold poorly at the time of release. Another overlooked gem and is undoubtedly is a hard-to find jewel.
Amazing archival example of this incredible garage/psych from Massachusetts.
SOUGHT AFTER 1968 PSYCHEDELIC GARAGE COLLECTIBLE
This Psychedelic underground rock crew hailed from Boston and were the next best thing to The Ultimate Spinach and Beacon Street Union, only at the time, no one noticed and the illustrious PHLUPH vanished without a trace...
Phluph is not as ground breaking or experimental as other albums from that era but nevertheless it still stands as a great slice of psychedelic laced rock.
It is an album very much of its time, combining all the elements most people would expect from a late sixties piece; fuzz guitar, close harmonies, thinly veiled drug references in the lyrics and a heavy amount of organ grinding.
Sadly the sleeve notes don’t reveal which band member played which instrument, but working on the assumption that all organists from the sixties looked like Ray Manzarek, one can probably ear mark the chap with the enormous glasses and cunning haircut as being the man in charge of the keys.
And what a player the organist was. Just as Manzarek was the musical genius and driving force behind the Doors, so too the organist on this album steers the group to safety, manipulating the instrument in every way possible in order to draw from it all possible sounds. Whether it’s conjuring up mournful paranoia for “Girl in Tears” or propelling the group through the brilliant “Patterns” or the Beatles-esque “Ellyptical Machine”, the guy on the organ holds the day.
He even gets a freak out on the bizarre “Love Eyes”. This tune also boasts a haunting guitar solo which DJ Shadow sampled for his Private Press LP. “In Her Way” has got to be the pick of the bunch. Spaced out vocal harmonies and jangling guitar chords open the song before the band gets into a bass heavy groove. The shimmering organ fades in and out under the bass line, before the track moves on to a great fuzzy guitar solo, with the guitarist making the instrument sound like a busted sitar. It’s a near perfect 3 minutes of psychedelic poprock grooves.
In the liner notes there is a quote about Phluph from Cashbox Magazine: “We can’t see anything that could possibly hold back a group like this. When their reputation catches up with their ability, Phluph may very well be famous throughout the world”. Unfortunately something did stand in their way and all the potential from such a talented bunch was never fully realised. In a different world maybe they would have been given a chance to become more than just an obscure collectible by only those 'in the know'.
1.Doctor Mind
2.It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
3.In Her Way
4.Another day
5.Girl In Tears
6.Ellyptical Machine
7.Lovely Lady
8.Death Of A Nation
9.Love Eyes
10.Patterns
RECORD CONDITION: NEAR MINT
COVER CONDITION: NEAR MINT
LABELS CONDITION: NEAR MINT
First pressing containing the VERVE printed inner sleeve...
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