RARE 1969 WEST COAST POP ART WHERE'S MY DADDY PSYCH
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Aug 8, 2010
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Aug 3, 2010
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RARE 1969 ORIGINAL ~ UNDERGROUND PSYCH GEM!
The West Coast Pop Art Experiemental Band
A Childs Guide To Good And Evil
...USA - AMOS RECORDS - AAS 7004 - PROMOTIONAL
ORIGINAL 1969 promotional first pressing of a great album by this strange brew from southern California, collectively known as the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band...by 1969 this crew and their wonderfully weird album were buried to the point that tghe album seemed 'rare' back then...not exactly featured on any displays or endcaps...now matter how 'great' it was... Lyrically, however, Bob Markley seems to be continuing Where's My Daddy?'s creepy themes of paranoia, class resentment (for someone who funded the band through his trust fund, Markley seemed to write an awful lot of songs about wealth redistribution), and, perhaps most tellingly in light of the lyricist's eventual legal troubles, a predilection for underage girls. That blend of musical beauty and lyrical ickiness is, at heart, the true legacy of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. Whatever the utopian hippy dream entailed for Young America in the 1960s, this was not it. Summer burned and winter blown, Where's My Daddy? exemplifies the dark underbelly of the California good life, as we are granted a peak at some of the hidden corners of the not-so-glamorous side of Hollywood.The title track, a countrified blast of swagger that kicks off the album, lays it all out within the first minute: "Father went from can to can/ Mother goes from man to man". The song establishes our protagonist-hero Markley as an unwanted bastard (literally) who leaves home under some not very good circumstances. He leaves his home but quickly bemoans his lack of financial security a cool-as-hell rocker titled "Where Money Rules Everything" and subsequently joins up with the army on the hysterical "Hup Two, Hup Two". The experience leaves Bob a little worn down and confused ("A little queer on the third floor likes me/ But I won't wrestle him!") and longing to be set free from the constraints of the military ("Hup two! Hup two! Left-right! Left-right! I can't wait for the party tonight!").
Musically the first three songs on side one are outside the realm of what one might expect from a WCPAEB album. The title cut is a tight and restrained acoustic number, while "Money" and "Hup Two" both feature some strange and unique wah-wah guitar patterns from newly rejoined Mike Lloyd. The album then dovetails into a couple of beautifully longing, if traditional (by WCPAEB standards) ballads featuring Shawn Harris-- "My Dog Back Home" and "Outside/ Inside"-- separated by some bizarre, Markley-infused insanity in the form of "Give Me Your LoveThing". The overall effect of side one is musical schizophrenia of the best sort.
Side two, however, is where things start to get even more interesting. We are now outside of Markley's own self and are instead given a glimpse into the life of Poor Patty, a future Hollywood street urchin whose beginnings mirror that of Markley's character in the title track. (It should be noted for the record that in real life Bob Markley was the adopted son of an oil tycoon and presumably didn't want for much of anything.) From the sound of her spoken introduction, we're immediately made aware that this girl is probably about 10 years old, but the lyrics of the opening "Everyone's Innocent Daughter" hammer it home in no uncertain terms. She is at the cusp of adolescence-- "listening for what you haven't yet heard/ looking for what you haven't yet seen"-- and is putting away her toys in anticipation of more exotic pleasures in the city, where people's faces are "grim as granite". Danny Harris, singing lines no doubt written by and about Markley, responds "I want to run, tell the world how much fun you are." I think we can safely assume he's not just talking about his experience playing hop scotch or tiddlywinks with her.
"Free as a Bird" further chronicles Patty's relationship with the Markley character/ construct. Now she's sneaking out of her house to visit him "on the outside edge of town." The narrator is addressing the girl directly here, with the sage advice: "This is your precious time. Don't waste any of it apologizing to your friends for all your loose ends." Because, of course, "this time won't come again".
Yet surprisingly, the music to both "Everyone's Innocent Daugher" and "Free as a Bird" is gorgeous, harmony drenched guitar pop-psych. There's absolutely nothing sinister about the melodies whatsoever, which simply adds to the overall quality of these songs. Instead of what could have been perceived as a simple lewd come-on, we now see that this is a compex situation. Markley's affection for this girl less than half his age appears to be genuine and rooted in infatuation and appreciation rather than base lust.
On the following "Not One Bummer", Patty is set free of her parents and is now unleashed on the Sunset Strip in a scenario not unlike the one brought forth in the classic Catherine Hardwicke film Thirteen. The ebullient joy found in this bouncy track is contrasted by "Have You Met My Pet Pig?" where Patty first begins to encounter difficulties related to life on the Strip ranging from the mundane (curfew violation) to serious (her best friend getting busted). The song itself is probably one the finest ever written about life on Sunset Strip by any band, on par with such classics as Love's "Between Clark and Hilldale" or the Mothers' "Plastic People".
If you're thinking to yourself that this story can't have a happy ending, then you won't be disappointed by the album's highlight "Coming of Age in L.A.". Patty is now heard hustling the Free Press for change, when she's taken into an alley and is summarily "beaten, raped and robbed". During this whole scene, we are introduced to a who's who of Hollywood freaks and weirdos-- people Markley and the Harris Brothers no doubt knew well. At the end of this tragi-comedy, Poor Patty is dragged in front of a drunk judge, and when asked to comment on her situation, offers up the best response she can think of: "Judge... Not one bummer, the whole beautiful summer!"
If the group had decided to end the album there it would have already been enough to disturb, piss off and offend 90% of the people who bought it. However, we are treated to one more vignette in the life of Poor Patty, or perhaps Markley himself. By this point the two characters are so intertwined it's almost impossible to separate them, hence the song's title "Two People". It appears that the protagonist is now 74 years old and matter-of-factly recounting all the horrors of their life. The answer to the album's title is finally made clear: "My father died pushing a plow, while I was off beating a cow." As such, the album has in a way resolved back to the beginning, and the listener will be rewarded with additional insight the next time they listen to it, and the next, and the next, and so on.
This album is not something that anyone with an absolute, traditional sense of morality will enjoy. More than likely, such a person will be so put off by the story told within Where's My Daddy? that they would likely break the album in half and throw it in the trash or set fire to it. One must be open to what the characters are trying to say in order to appreciate this record. If you can make the leap, you just might find this album as rewarding as we do. Certainly, you'll never hear another record like it in your life.
By the way-- the identity of the girl on the album cover reveals more clues about the strange saga found within, if you know who she actually was
- 1. Where's My Daddy?
- 2. Money Rules Everything
- 3. Hup Two! Hup Two!
4. My Dog Back Home
5. Give Me Your Lovething
6. Outside/Inside
7. Everyone's Innocent Daughter
8. Free As A Bird
9. Not One Bummer
10. Have You Met My Pet Pig?
11. Coming Of Age In L.A.
12. Two People
CONDITION: The cover is VG+(+) having a promo sticker at bottom partially torn off, otherwise tere is minor small shelf wear that is starting, solid seams, no bends, the back cover featuring the 'freaky' looking band is CLEAN excellent ...
The vinyl is full of its original glossy shine on BOTH sides, visual VG+ having but some stray very light stylus hairlines that are minor, so plays exceedingly well (vg++ excellent enjoyable)
keeper copy!
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTIBLES!
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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