SERPENT POWER OUROBOUROS RARE NUMBERED PRIVATE PRESSING

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·       THE SERPENT POWER – OUROBOUROS [THE UNRELEASED THIRD ALBUM; BOTH SECOND ALBUM (ON CAPITOL LABEL) AND THIRD ALBUM WENT UNRELEASED; THIS, THE THIRD ONE WAS FINALLY RELEASED IN 2006 AS DAVID MELTZER’S PRIVATE PRESSING ON INDIE ‘LOCUST’ LABEL, IN A LIMITED PRESS RUN OF ONLY 500 COPIES, EACH INDIVIDUALLY HAND-NUMBERED AND SEQUENCED – THIS IS THE ORIGINAL LOCUST STEREO LP [NO NUMBER; BLANK, WHITE LABEL]

·       LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION; THIS COPY IS # 496 OF 500.

·       INCLUDES DAVID MELTZER’S TYPEWRITTEN LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

·       ORIGINAL 180-GRAM RELEASE ON HIGH-QUALITY, VIRGIN VINYL

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THIN CARDBOARD COVER (NO THICK CARDBOARD COVERS WERE EVER PRODUCED FOR THIS TITLE)

·       ORIGINAL SILK-SCREEN COVER

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       As far as we know, this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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"The Serpent Power were a short-lived and under documented group of Bay Area freakers & tweakers founded by poet David Meltzer & his wife, Tina. Under the original incarnation, Serpent Power would record only one album for Vanguard who signed them on the recommendation of Ed Denson (Country Joe & the Fish manager/Takoma Records co-founder). The Vanguard LP is a doozy of sunshine pop psych & raga rock. Needless to say, the 'song' structures would be reserved for the beautiful family tones of David & Tina Meltzer's Poet Song recordings for Vanguard & a dormant album for Capitol called Green Morning. Phase two of Serpent Power, on the other hand, would regroup as an amorphous musical blob that seemingly let it all hang out & that's just what you get on Ourobouros. This is a deliciously hairy, off the cuff live document of the band's second incarnation recorded at KPFA in 1969. Bob Cuff (of the great art rock band The Mystery Trend), Jim Moscoso, Jean-Paul Pickens, fellow poet/seer Clark Coolidge & David Meltzer were joined by Daniel Moore, leader of The Floating Lotus Opera Company and a mystery friend named Christian for a session of spontaneous, combustive aggro hippie jams." --Dawson Prater

"It's splendid stuff, each of the two pieces evolving organically, with the musicians dropping in and out and sharing the spotlight around. So what begins as a banjo-led bluegrass groove mutates thereafter into Eastern flavored exotica, squawking [Captain Beefheart's] Magic Band style nuttiness, or west coast psychedelic jamming." - Mike Stax , Ugly Things Magazine

THIS IS A NO-RESERVE AUCTION!

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG NEAR MINT. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The album comes with the original insert (introduction from Meltzer)

(c)           The album comes with 2 original postcard-sized flyer ads

(d)          The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(e)           In addition, the record is pressed on a beautiful, high-quality, virgin-grade vinyl, which is usually used for audiophile, extended-dynamic-range, half-speed mastered and connoisseur pressings.

·       COVER

COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a small, rectangular, sticker residue (small yellowish discoloration from the removed price sticker) (nothing significant)

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No ring wear

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No wrinkles or creases

-        No yellowing from aging

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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