"SPEED KILLS" 1968 TEN YEARS AFTER STONEDHENGE HARD BLUES PSYCH ALVIN LEE
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ORIGINAL 1968 FIRST PRESS HARD PSYCH~ROCK CLASSIC
TEN YEARS AFTER
STONEDHENGE
\ USA -DERAM RECORDS - DES 18021
TOPS! FINAL COLLECTION COPY
REALLY HARD to find THIS CLEAN ... here, a clean first printing...collection worthy! NOT with the usual heavy shelf rub or wear you see ...
Original 1968 first pressing (a rare find in clean M-) in THICK gatefold cover on the famed DERAM label finds the TYA breaking out in a bluesy psych direction with strong playing and infectious melodies within complex instrumentations...
Having focused on the blues over their first couple of albums, 1968's "Stonedhenge" found Alvin Lee and company taking some tentative steps to diversify and spread their creative wings, i.e. where the psychedelia crept in... While the album brought the band some initial commercial recognition in the States, that's not to say this set was any where near a commercial success -- on the contrary, made for prime underground FM radio play. The kick off track "Going To Try" is a top highlight with its infectious melody and strange delivery that offers the listener a new direction TYA were heading....even so, tracks such as 'A Sad Song' , 'No Title' and ''Hear Me Calling' blues remained the predominant sound, but this time around Lee and company took some stabs at writing rock and roll. Their best efforts are more enthusiastic than the album's pedestrian blues numbers, 'Woman Trouble' and 'Speed Kills' - although the latter's train crash ending was kind of jarring, and it's at best of high energy hard ripper in the best of TYA tradition. Strange as it may sound at first, once Alvin Lee's skat jam Skoobly Oobly Doobob' 'melody' get's ahold of you -- you'll know it for life.
(side 1)
Going To Try - 4:52
I Can't Live without Lydia - 1:23
Woman Trouble - 4:37
Skoobly Oobly Doobob - 1:47
Hear Me Calling - 5:44
(side 2)
A Sad Song - 3:23
Three Blind Mice - 0:57
No Title - 8:13
Faro - 1:10
Speed Kills 3:42
CONDITION: The cover: The thick gatefold cover is solid shape: M- and that's just great for such a wear prone cover ===most originals look heavily worn after 47 years (the dark cover is highly wear-prone) so way way above average here, a top level survivor from 47 years ago ...this copy is a well worthy collectible with fresh original colors ...
The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated M- TOP COPY very clean audio, NO distracting problems ... both DERAM labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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