ROY HARPER Flat Baroque And Berserk LP HARVEST 1970 UK 2nd Press+foc SHVL 766
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ROY HARPER
with [uncredited] The Nice
An idiosyncratic British singer/songwriter acclaimed for his deeply personal, poetic lyrics
and unique guitar work, Roy Harper was born June 12, 1941, in Manchester, England.
Eccentric, prolific British genius, a folk-rock cross of Bob Dylan's
troubadourism and Syd Barrett's freewheeling spirit
"FLAT BAROQUE AND BERSERK"
Produced by Peter Jenner with kind thanks to Tony Visconti and David Bedford
1970 LP HARVEST RECORDS STEREO SHVL 766
MADE IN ENGLAND SECOND PRESSING
WITH boxed EMI Logo and with 'MADE IN GT BRITAIN' at 6 o'clock on the label
The copy pictured here is a second pressing
the original pressing did not have the EMI box logo on the label.
The rim credits on both first and second pressings will say " The Gramophone Co. Ltd"
This version: Issued on green/yellow Harvest label (with boxed EMI logo)
in a gatefold sleeve laminated on the outside
and with both Harvest and EMI logos on the front and on the inside panel to the right
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: HARVEST - GREEN/YELLOW LABEL and with boxed 'EMI' - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (rear only) SHVL 766 (1E 062 ? 04262)
Catalog on labels: SHVL 766 (SHVL.766A / SHVL.766B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): SHVL 766 A-3
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): SHVL 766 B-2
On labels: "Made in Gt. Britain" (on the labels appears at 6 o'clock)
?1970 on both labels (on the labels the release year appears at 8 o'clock circa)
Produced by Peter Jenner for Blackhills/Enterprises
On Inside Panels: Photos by John McKenzie
E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd)
Made and Printed in Great Britain
On Back Sleeve: Notes by Roy Harper
Cover design by Lon Goddard
7001 TPS Printed and made by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd. London SHVL 766tracklisting
Side A: DON'T YOU GRIEVE - I HATE THE WHITE MAN
FEELING ALL THE SATURDAY - HOW DOES IT FEEL - GOODBYE
Side B: ANOTHER DAY - DAVEY - EAST OF THE SUN
TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND - FRANCESCA - SONG OF THE AGES - HELL'S ANGELS
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RECORD VG(+) but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Roy Harper's fourth album found him in an acoustic folkie mode more often than not, though as usual
(for circa late-'60s Harper) there were detours into pretty rocky items on occasion.
It's not much of either a progression or a slide from the lyrically convoluted, somewhat but not incredibly melodic
path he had established with his prior work. "I Hate the White Man," however, is certainly one of his
most notable (and notorious) compositions, a spew of lilting verbiage that's hard to peg.
It could be irony, it could be ironic self-hatred, it could be muddled reflections on the chaos that is the modern world,
or it could be a combination of all of them. There are gentler items, sometimes with subdued harmony vocals
and orchestration, that sound rather like Harper's most acerbic side sanded off with edges of
Al Stewart, Donovan, or Tim Hardin; "Another Day" is the prettiest of those.
The atypical "Hell's Angels," on the other hand, has a twisted, chunky rock feel rather
like the solo work of another of producer Peter Jenner's clients, Syd Barrett...(AllMusic)
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