RARE 1969 31 FLAVORS (THE FIREBIRDS) Hard FUZZ PSYCH BLOW YOUR MIND
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HEAVY FUZZED GARAGE RUMBLER BY THE FIREBIRDS IN DISGUISE
1969 RARE ORIGINAL
THE 31 FLAVORS
(((FIREBIRDS)))
\ USA - Crown CST 592
MINTY CLEAN VINYL (check full details below)
RARE & wanted Original 1969 first pressing of an awesome heavy rumbling fuzzzz psych garage obscurity containing some lethal crude workouts that should get more than a few of you all excited...!
These cats were also known as The FIREBIRDS, yep, the same group that issued the monster fuzz garage collectible "Light My Fire" a few momths earlier in the the late sixties as this Lp.
"Free Fuzz" and "Free Drum", finds the band tying up loose ends from the previous FIREBIRDS album. Although the previous album has these two tracks listed, they weren't actually on that record, so the label put them here instead. These tracks are much better if you listen to them in succession, starting with "Free Bass" from the previous album, because they were indeed recorded in one continuous take.
The penultimate pair is "Protest" and "One-Two-Three-Four" that gets to the new material that was actually recorded by The Firebirds in a completely different session than on the previous album. These two tracks are excellent, but they're really odd when you compare them to the Light My Fire songs. You can tell that the band really matured here. The vocals sound so much better, and it actually sounds like the guy has his own style, instead of the Jack Bruce style he did before. The lyrics are no longer acidic Hendrix cops. They now sound like serious song-writing attempts, and the singer's improved style gives one an impression of sincerity. The drummer settled down, and sounds much more professional. The bassist is the only member who didn't necessarily clean up his style. His tone is really rumbling heavy. The guitarist still plays with distortion compared with the last album. He uses just enough to give his riffs a cool, dark feeling (and it manages to be heavy), and it compliments the singing pretty well. He even changes to a smooth guitar tone at the end of "One-Two-Three-Four" for a nice little blues solo, which is unlike any of his sloppy blues solos from the previous album. And although we're not really experts in the intricacies of guitar tuning, it really sounds like the guitarist detuned his strings along with the bassist, which could be a reason that it sounds so dark, and it makes even more sense when you listen to the last pair of songs, because he reaches a low frequency of fuzz you may never even thought was possible in the 60's.
Which brings us to the the last pair, "Real Far Out" and "Distortions of Darkness". This pair is such a masterpiece of stoned sludge. Unlike the last pair, these are pure jamming tracks, and the guitarist uses his fuzz-box, seemingly to its highest setting. The first one is a blues workout, namely the song "Steppin' Out" which you associate with Eric Clapton, but it's probably originally performed by somebody else. It starts off as nice and fuzzy heavy blues, but as the song progresses the guitarist delves deeper and deeper into some sort of nightmarish acid trip, and his guitar follows him into some really sloppy sludge. It really does sound real far-out.
And finally, they save the best song for last. They really could not have come up with a name as accurate as "Distortions of Darkness". This stuff is pure fuzzed-up evil. It's actually a heavy psych jam form of "Reflections" from the previous album, the detuned bass and guitar just bring this song to the heaviest levels of the 60's. An essential track for anybody who considers themselves a fan of garage psych or proto-heavy rock.
Hair Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In
Protest
Free Fuzz
B:
One-Two-Three-Four
Real Far Out
Free Drum
Distortions of Darkness
CONDITION: The cover: thick cover is solid all over, a hard to find at all but especially clean (one of the most extreme wear prone cover!)...this copy rates VG+ with mild cover wear on front, back cover is clean rated: "EX" (excellent) pretty much all copies have a lot of shelf wear ...NO seam split, no bends, and NO writing ...great original colors = collection worthy rarity ...
The vinyl: is visually clean TOP COPY M- plays clean all over! ...BOTH 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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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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