THE SUPERFINE DANDELION - (S/T) Mainstream - Psych LP - 1ST RPESS 1967 - SHRINK
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THE SUPERFINE DANDELION
“THE SUPERFINE DANDELION”
Mainstream S/6102
1967
FIRST PRESSING
EX / EX
STILL IN SHRINK
BEST PRICED COPY ON EBAY AS OF 01-20-2017. There are two copies of this rarity on eBay sitting at $104 (a cutout with cover condition identified as VG), and $203 (incl. post.). Check it out.
Exceptionally hard to find psych pop LP from 1967 in extremely hard to find great shape! The Superfine Dandelion were a psych pop group out of Phoenix who hooked up with local club owner Jim Musil (owned J.D.’s and the Fifth Estate nightclubs) who landed them a recording contract with Mainstream (who had just released the first LP by Big Brother & The Holding Company with Janis Joplin at the time).
Beautiful shape here. It doesn’t get much nicer for an LP that isn’t sealed.
The fine AllMusic web site says: “One of several West Coast (or nearly West Coast) '60s bands on the Mainstream label, the Superfine Dandelion made one album in 1967 that mixed San Francisco psychedelic, folk-rock, pop, and jug band influences. They were formed in Phoenix in early 1965 by singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter Mike McFadden. McFadden had been in local garage band the Mile Ends, who had released a good punky Rolling Stones-y single, "Bottle Up and Go," in 1966; bassist Ed Black, who had been in the Mile Ends in their final days, was also in the Superfine Dandelion. Their self-titled LP had a good deal of sub-Jefferson Airplane folk-psych-rock, with plenty of minor chords, harmonies, and wistful lyrics. There was also an occasional countryish influence in the spirit of the Lovin' Spoonful and Buffalo Springfield, and some good-timey jug band flavor.
The album made little impact, and the group disbanded in 1968, with bassist Rick Anderson (who only joined shortly before the album was finished) going on to the Tubes, and Black touring and recording with Linda Ronstadt in the first half of the 1970s, later playing with Karla Bonoff's band.”
The LP was reissued on CD in 2006 but the sound was not quite the same.
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