RARE ORIGINAL HOLY GRAIL ROCKADROME 1969 TEST PRESSING CANADIAN PSYCH GARAGE
$
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Description
You are bidding on the original 1969 test pressing of the classic Canadian psych LP ROYAL AMERICAN 20TH CENTURY BLUES by THE ROCKADROME.
Matrix # ASP12001/ASP12002
Apparently only 5 or 6 test copies were produced .
Generic white cover. Test pressings never came with covers. Covers were only produced once the record received the go-ahead for production.
Visually vinyl is a very glossy VG++ with some minor scuff marks and a few superficial hairline scratches ( not deep and cannot be felt).
Play graded on a high end moving coil cartridge sound is loud and clean.
A test pressing of this highly collectible LP for the Canadian garage pysch collector, to my knowledge, has never come up for auction and this one has a low opening bid of $999.99 with no reserve.
Buyer pays $15 shipped to the US.
I will only ship this overseas with a tracking number in order to be protected in case of a buyer claiming not to receive the item ( this is paypal rules not mine)
Unfortunately this service from Canada costs $40 to Europe and $70 to the Far East.
Overseas buyers please do not bid if you you can`t afford the shipping costBIO from Canuckstan music : A near-mint copy of Rockadrome's lone 1969 LP will probably set you back at least a month's rent - and not a one-bedroom in Wawa (ON), either. Recorded in the early months of 1969 at Art Snider's Sound Canada studios in Toronto and pressed up in very limited quantities, Royal American 20th Century Blues is an impossibly rare psych-rock curio that has sold for upwards of US$1900.
The band (guitarists Ron Dove and Mike Clancy, along with bassist Paul Lachapelle and drummer Rick Vallieres) formed in Toronto in 1968, with the older Clancy having once recorded with rockabilly acts Jack Bailey and The Naturals and Jerry Warren and The Tremblers. Royal American... seems to have one foot planted on either side of the Atlantic, flitting from Brit-infused freakbeat ('Very Strange') to acerbic West Coast guitar jams ('Thirteen Miles Down'), sometimes even in the same song (the amazing five-minute title track). Dove's Dylanesque whine on the jangly 'There You Go Again' should by rights be maddeningly annoying, but instead the song could almost be a long-lost Blond on Blonde outtake. And the sombre piano reprise that closes side two is a sober lament - almost frighteningly so - on our own royal American twentieth century futility. The record is not without its detritus, but still, how Royal American 20th Century Blues could have gone so unnoticed remains a mystery.
Snider kept the lads busy later that year, employing them as session musicians on a couple of equally arcane endeavours, Hyde's obscure folk LP on Quality and, a few years later, for Snider's wife's project, the Allen Sisters. But aside from a solo seven-inch by Dove, the band responsible for one of Canada's rarest records was never heard from again.
