RARE MICRO re PEGGYS LEG GRINILLA UK HOLY GRAIL PROG Canterbury Organ Guitar
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1973 HOLY GRAIL UNITED KINGDOM PROGRESSIVE
PEGGYS LEG
GRINILLA
ITALY? - PRIVATE PRESS
Very limited and long gone 2ndpress, said to be 200 copies made only and sold out immediately ... while we can't refute that contention, it seems to have been an awfully small project to undertake, unless keeping it 'special,' even as a micro-repress, may have been a consideration. However, the pressing is flawed, all copies have a low end hiss - even IF the vinyl looks mint. Obviously produced by very low end pressing plant - something like from a home/basement self production...The cover itself is very weight heavy, talk about a triple thick cover!
Peggy's Leg have always appeared something of a mystery. A musical myth of legend and folklore. we've never seen a picture of any band member let alone the album, an album which to high end collectors is a holy grail. Those who claimed to actually have a copy of the only album that Peggy's Leg released, Grinilla, are quite impressed with themselves as being part of an exclusive club. Only 500 original copies were pressed and no one knows how many of these actually exist. But some 15 years back an Italian exact reissue in private pressed form emerged, though limited to only 200, the copies dispersed as soon as they were pressed. The cover in itself reflects the mystery of "Grinilla" - a black and white drawing of a gorilla dressed in a space suit, he has a huge banana on his back thats fed to him via a tube and the gorilla has this huge evil grin on his face! Cool.
The album features a unique mixture of classical, Canterbury edged rock & prog wrapped up in a psychedelic sensibility this album is indeed a very strange and unique experience, and rather than being pompous or bordering on pretension like perhaps the Nice or ELP, Peggy's Leg have this innocent naiveness about their music, though full of passion as "Think For Yourself" testifies, and the musicianship throughout is very tight, Peggy's Leg are always very competent juxtaposing hard and fast distorted riffing with smooth and delicate acoustic passages and intricate time signatures, and it can take a few turns to get to grips with the six selections on offer. To hear the groups subtle change from one style to the next, as on "Into The Nightmare", is a worthwhile experience. And just as you settle into that mood a flurry of electric harmony guitar riffing from Jimmy Gibson and Jimmy Slevin kicks in accompanied by some machine gun drumming from Don Harris before gently easing in to where we started with a smooth lyric that's pure psychedelia. This is par for the course here, and every tune is wonderfully constructed and thoughtout. The lyric content is very dreamlike with allusions of mythical places and stoned out visions, references to Hitler, plagues and disease. Obviously they had a short time to record this album, the vocals certainly do show limitations, and though it is excellently frenetic in places musically, it would definitely have benefited from a more forgiving mix, and the vocals with some extra manipulation could have been more that edge it lacks if the drama the lyrics demand and in turn they do sound rather slight and even unfinished.
And if anyone is familiar with the classical piece "Sabre Dance" written by Khatschaturian, there is a version here that is mind-blowing fast with a heavy chocked riff doubled with the bass of Vincent Duffy and ends the album on a high
2 Think For Yourself
3 Variations for Huxley SIDE TWO
1 Into The Nightmare
2 Just Another Journey
3 Sabre Dance
CONDITION: The Cover: triple thick - like a slab of thin wood, well, almost...its M- having no problems ... all clean ...
The Vinyl: looks M- very smooth with no marks, no scuffs, no scratches ...the lo-fi pressing production has a low end hiss, but the music covers much of that problem ...
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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