Pacific Drift - Feelin' Free - 1970 Deram
$
25
$ 25
Sold For
May 7, 2025
Sold Date
May 2, 2025
Start Date
1
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USA
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Description
The Time Has Come to Auction Off A Sizable Portion of My Collection Each Album is an Original Not A Modern Reprint Unless Specified These Have Been In My Library For 40 Plus Years Inner & Outer Sleeved and Played with Loving Care I Have Play Tested Both Sides of These Prior To Posting Them
Pacific Drift - Feelin Free Deram – DES 18040 Stereo USA 1970
- Matrix / Runout (Runout etching side A): ZAL 9405 Pz... W sf
- Matrix / Runout (Runout etching side B): ZAL 9406 Pz... W sf
Pacific Drift Lawrence Arendes - Drums, Vocals Graham Harrop - Bass Barry Reynolds - Guitar, Vocals Brian Shapman - Keyboards, Vocals
Released to widespread indifference back in January 1970, Manchester band Pacific Drift’s album Feelin’ Free surely deserved a better fate. A sparkling, West Coast-influenced amalgam of post-psychedelic pop and early progressive rock, skillfully weaving wistful hippie laments and riff-laden rockers into a fully cohesive whole, it didn’t really attract any kind of attention until the Great Prog Rock Stampede of the late Eighties, when albums that couldn’t be given away when first released suddenly began to change hands for significant sums of money. Though their sole album wouldn’t emerge until the dawn of the Seventies, Pacific Drift had been around for some while by that point. A product of the highly incestuous Manchester group scene of the mid-to-late Sixties, they had first come together in 1967 as the Sponge - essentially an updated, psychedelic-era version of the Tony Merrick Scene, with singer Merrick and guitarist Graham Harrop involved alongside other musicians, including an Asian drummer. But there were several early personnel changes, culminating with Merrick leaving in early 1968 to form a new Manchester ‘supergroup’, Sweet Marriage. Barry Reynolds would act as Marianne Faithfull’s musical director for many years as well as working with Grace Jones, Joe Cocker and John Martyn quit in late September to link up again with Jack Lancaster in Blodwyn Pig, Pacific Drift duly imploded. Brian Chapman hooked up with Chicken Shack, Graham Harrap reunited with a couple of his old Toggery Five colleagues in Young & Renshaw, and Larry Arends left the full-time music scene to move into photography.
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No Returns or Refunds on Sealed Items Once They Are Opened
All Of My Albums Are Inner Sleeved and Outer Sleeved and Come Shipped in Sturdy Professional Record Mailers
Each Record for Sale Has Been Checked Under A 100-Watt Light Bulb and Play Tested on a Rega P3
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