SAM GOPAL ESCALATOR SEALED GATEFOLD LEMMY MOTORHEAD
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U.S. BUYERS SHIPPING MEDIA $ 5.50 PRIORITY $ 7.00 ADDITIONAL $2.00 PER RECORD. BOTH WITH A TRACKER. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PAY ACTUAL COST ( ESTIMATE $ 15.00 - $ 16) ADDITIONAL RECORDS ( $5 ) COMBINED SHIPPING ALWAYS HONORED. RECORD COVER AND RECORD SEALED MINT MINT. STABLE RECORDS 1968 . CATALOG # SLE 8001 STEREO . PICTURES ON MONDAY/ TUESDAY. Classic 1968 Psychedelic Rock album. One of a handful of albums released on the short lived Stable imprint, Escalator is a gem of an album that is notable for the presence of Ian Willis, otherwise known as Lemmy. However, Escalator is as memorable for the talents of Malaysian born percussionist Gopal and his band also including Roger D'Elia (guitar) and Phil Duke (bass). With such fine material as 'The Dark Lord', 'The Sky is Burning' and 'Midsummer Night's Dream', Escalator is an essential album of British underground Rock from the late 1960's. Esoteric. Sam Gopal was brought back from obscurity by his connection to Ian Fraser Kilmister (b.1945) - the famous Lemmy of Motorhead, who was guitarist and singer of the first incarnations of Sam Gopal's band, which feature other two stars - Mick Hutchinson on guitar and Andy Clark on keyboards . Years after Gopal returned to co-operation with Andy Clark, and in 1990/1991 recorded two solo projects - "Soap Opera" and "Not For Sale" ( as far as I know, available on vinyl only - sorry, if I am wrong).
The early bands of Gopal were managed by Robert Stigwood and, later, - by Peter Grant (as "Cosmosis" Sam Gopal recorded several tracks for Led Zeppelin label in 1971).
Sam Gopal was born in Malasia and studied and played tablas (not bongas or congas - tablas, tradition percussion of the Northern India)since the age of 7. In 1962 he came to London and by 1965/66 his "Sam Gopal Dream" became an element of growing London psychedelic scene. If Ravi Shankar revolutionized sittar, Sam Gopal did the same for tabla (or tablas), with which he replaced traditional percussion section of the rock-band.
That was excellent innovative music - psychedelic, underground, avant-grade - is irrelevant.
In 1967 the band performed in London Alexandra Palace next to Pink Floyd, Savoy Brown, Arthur Brown, etc, etc, - needless to say that Sam Gopal was more convincing and mature than shy and naive ventures of other bands into meditative oriental music.
In mid-70s Gopal worked in France with Didier Malherbe (sax) and Patrice Lemoine (piano).
He spend further 7 or so years in Nepal studying tabla and theory of music, which brought his skills further up - almost to impossible perfection - and broaded his composing horizon - Sam Gopal's music was based on 12-tone table with new over-tones and rhythms (in 1999 he recorded the first blues performed on tablas - "Solid Water Blues".
Although staying somehow in the shade, Sam Gopal is an iconoclastic personality in the history of music and an institution himself - buy this album!
LEMMY ON FAR LEFT OF PICTURE
On Aug-17-10 at 16:14:02 PDT, seller added the following information:GEMM WEBSITE HAS A VERY GOOD COPY FOR $ 924.81
On Aug-18-10 at 10:54:09 PDT, seller added the following information:NOTE I WAS INFORMED BY A EBAYER THAT THIS IS NOT A FIRST PRESSING. SORRY ABOUT THAT . I APPRECIATE THAT AND HOPE ANYTIME SOMEONE HAS KNOWLEDGE TO PASS IT ON TO ME.
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