Stevie Cochran-No Need To Worry-Private-Promo-100 Press

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STEVIE COCHRAN
NO NEED TO WORRY
(SELF PRESSED)
1-11762-21890
1983

Only 100 pressed (and who knows how many still exist) in an attempt to secure a record deal

Excerpt from a previous auction describes it well:

It’s hard to gauge the true rarity of most three or even four-figure albums – who knows how many Open Minds or Koobas albums were melted down after the initial pressings didn’t sell?  But you can easily measure the rarity of this 1983 album by Stevie Cochran – only 100 were pressed, and far fewer have shown up for sale.  It hasn’t been reissued either (and don’t hold yer breath), because this puppy didn’t even get a proper album release back then (and a cover that’s just a paste-on sticker), but rest assured – there are less than 100 people in the world at most who can own one of these.  At any given time.

It’s an unassuming little record – it was never meant to be sold in stores, hence the front-cover-as-an-afterthought.  It certainly doesn’t look like a rarity, and not much has even been written about it.  Acid Archives called it a “hardrock cruncher” and compared it to Truth and Janey (and that should pique some interest), while the only online dealer who seems to have one for sale describes it as “a heavy guitar rocker with over-the-top fuzz and 70’s vibe.”  He’s also selling his for $750.

If you’re a guitar lover – and I mean LOTS and LOTS of guitar – Hendrix guitar, Adrian Belew guitar, Robert Fripp guitar – then hells yeah, this one SMOKES!  The title track worships Jimi Hendrix more than Robin Trower’s bedroom walls, with lots of trippy psychedelic phasing on the guitar leads, real showboat kinda stuff.   Stevie keeps the phasing effect on full-power for the proggier “Got to Get a Woman,” whose Duke-era Genesis feel would make Patrick Bateman proud.  There’s even a nod to earlier Genesis in the “Silent Sorrow for Empty Boats” moog choir that runs behind the last verse/chorus.  Classic rock radio shoulda pounced on this, but they didn’t.  Hey, if Billy Thorpe could get “Children of the Sun” on the air, then surely there was a place for Stevie Cochran.

Elsewhere, “Truth” sounds like something off the Adrian Belew and the Bears album.  And at 9 and a half minutes, “Attack/Cops and Robbers” is clearly Stevie’s ultimate speed guitar showcase.  It’s his very own “Eruption,” at first, then gets far more intricate and jazzy once the full band joins in.  Points should also be given to the drummer, whose on fire here, and the whole song comes off sounding like one of those powerful instrumental jams from King Crimson’s Red.  If Stevie was setting out to prove his guitar prowess on this album, he sure did it – too bad a major label didn’t agree. 

Lovers of the prog rock axe in all its electric glory will find a new hero in Stevie Cochran.  He had the chops, he had the hooks, and he wrote some pretty good songs too.  And you’ll be one of less than a hundred people in the world who own it. 

International buyers - Orders over $100 will be shipped registered mail, it's an additional $11.50 to the shipping cost but I will gladly split the extra cost with you ($5.75 each) making it $20 total