RARE 1968 ORIG THE RABBLE UNDERGROUND ROCK GENIUS HEAVY BLUES ZAPPA PSYCH LP
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ORIGINAL 1968 FIRST PRESS UNDERGROUND ROCK GENIUS!
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... THE RABBLE ...
The RABBLE ALBUM
USA - TRANS-WORLD - TW 6700
RARE...Original 1968 FIRST PRESS .. this is the RARE Canadian first print on the "Trans-world" label. The album was also released on Roulette Records in the USA with completely different cover and song mixes. Canadian 'heads' ~ The Rabble were all about and without a doubt a unique blend of underground rock, filled with twists and turns reflecting clever song writing & far-out playing ...
The Rabble were five hip and talented lads from Pointe Claire on Montreal Canada's west island who played a nominally way cool and groovy song infected melodics, all oddly eccentric and alternative to the Haunted's straight-on garage rock. Their first album is a psychedelic curio sadly languishing in oblivion, even as scads of American and international lesser collectibles scraped from the bottom of the dustbin of sixties psychedelia. So what gives?
The RABBLE were formed in 1966 by leader/guitarist Mike Harris and did the requisite club and bar slog across Montreal island, eventually playing before 4,000 people at the Queen's Park love-in in Toronto on May 22, 1967. But unlike other bands of the era, who were trying to establish rock as a serious medium (as evinced no doubt by the emergence of rock criticism at about the same time), the Rabble were more eccentric, stippling their music with wit, sarcasm and whimsy while crafting great self composed material.
Their single Golden Girl was a highlight on the Montreal airwaves during the technicolour summer of 1967. They won over a restless audience at the Paul Sauvé Arena when headliners "Cream" didn't show, walking off the stage triumphantly – in matching underwear. Their music, at its best, crossed a mix of wonderful catchy Beatlesque hooks with the no-barriers attack of Zappa's Mothers of Invention.
The first Rabble single, a psychedelic rocker "I’m Alaboundy Bam", got little chart action. The follow-up, a slice of catchy cool-pop-perfection number "Golden Girl," was a different story.
‘‘That thing just started popping,’’ group leader John Pimm said. ‘‘We started winning all these new music battles (on the radio) – phone-in things,’’
The Rabble seemed unstoppable. But beyond the groovy-hooks sound, they delivered shock value with musical anarchy and experimentation, too – particularly in songs like the Zappa-esque Black Potato, the Eastern-psychedelic flavored drama of "Rising of the Sun" and the sheer free-for-all madness of "The Energy Ritual," Harris’s 11-minute album-closing 'acid' suite.
Elsewhere, The Rabble fly their freak flag in full colors. 'Black Potato', for instance, is a tribal paean, replete with goofy jungle-like chants, to the humble spud, the "almighty black potato". 'The Crushing Hand of Mother' mixes odd time changes with social commentary and the Zappa-esque prescience of "your mother's got a hold on you, yeah / controls all the things that you do, yeah" before snapping into a staccato guitar riff and then back to its languid lament. And then there is the patently absurd 'Can I Squeeze', which belts out some of the nimblest guitar rhythms before popping the gross-out question of the century, "Can I squeeze your boil? / Can I crunch it, munch it, squeeze it, eat it?"
The Rabble jams it up at times with heavy blues sludge considered the happening sound (ala Cream) at the time, which adds to this overlooked charmer of a platter that should have been reissued a long time ago.
I Can Still Hear Them Laughing
Black Potatoe
Nothin’ But
Rising Of The Sun
The Crushing Hand Of Mother
Golden Girl
We’ll Bring You Flowers
Can I Squeeze
The Energy Ritual: I. House Of Cards II. What? III. Collapse Of The Sugar Plum Fairies IV. Genesis
CONDITION: The cover: rated: VG++ solid all over, light beginning shelf wear; no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...
The vinyl: Rated: VG(+) few minor scuffs/hairlines over vastly clean surface, plays with very enjoyable audio, better than visuals. Both Trans-World labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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