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THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND

BOB MARKLEY, DAN HARRIS, SHAUN HARRIS, MICHAELL LLOYD

One of the more offbeat acts to emerge during the psychedelic era, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 

were certainly eclectic and ambitious enough to live up to their slightly clumsy moniker, capable 

of jumping from graceful folk-rock to wailing guitar freakouts to atonal, multilayered, avant-garde compositions 

at a moment's notice, but they also reflected a strongly divided creative mindset, 

with Bob Markley, the lyricist and ostensive leader of the group, on one side and the rest of the band on the other

"THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND PART ONE"

1967      LP        REPRISE  RECORDS       STEREOMONO  SRI 6247

MADE IN ITALY     ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

3-COLOUR + STEAMBOAT LABEL

LAMINATED SLEEVE (on front) + FLIPBACK

This version: Part One (on front); Part 1 (on spine & labels)

With original Italian sticker on front (lower side)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  REPRISE  -  "3-COLOUR" + STEAMBOAT LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: SRI 6247

Catalog on labels: SRI 6247 (6 30647 / 6 30648)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): RS 6247-A-   30647-   1D

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 30648   RS 6247 B   1-A

On labels: Reprise Records

Made in Italy

Tutti i Diritti Riservati

POP SERIES  

? 1967

Prod. B. Markley e J. Bowen      STEREOMONO

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Part 1

Rights society: DR

On Front Sleeve: StereoMono

On Back Sleeve: Liner notes from 'Los Angeles Times' and 'Career Magazine'

Produced by Bob Markley and Jimmy Bowen

Distribuzione Messaggerie Musicali-Milano-Roma

Stampato in Italia su licenza Reprise Records, U.S.A. da Compagnia Generale del Disco - Milano

Stampa Reparto Grafico C.G.D

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side 1: SHIFTING SANDS - I WON'T HURT YOU - 1906

HELP, I'M A ROCK - WILL YOU WALK WITH ME

Side 2: TRANSPARENT DAY - LEYLA

HERE'S WHERE YOU BELONG - IF YOU WANT THIS LOVE

'SCUSE ME, MISS ROSE - HIGH COIN

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RECORD  EX  (please, read above description)

SLEEVE STRONG VG+ (please, see pictures and read above description)

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's first album for Reprise was the best of the group's career, 

in large part because it was the most song-oriented. It was still plenty weird, almost to the point 

of stylistic schizophrenia, but when you got down to it, much of the record was comprised of fairly 

catchy songs in the neighborhood of two and three minutes. At times they sounded like reasonably normal, 

fairly talented Byrds-like folk-rockers ("Transparent Day," P.F. Sloan's "Here's Where You Belong"); 

at others, a Kinks-like garage band ("If You Want This Love"); and at others, a fey Baroque pop outfit 

(the orchestrated "Will You Walk With Me"). There was an undercurrent of unsettling weirdness 

and even paranoia, though, in some cuts with otherwise pleasing tunes, like "Shifting Sands," 

with its sizzling distorted guitars; "I Won't Hurt You," with its heartbeat bass and disconnected vocals; 

and "Leiyla," where a standard teen garage rocker suddenly gets invaded by spoken dialog 

that seems to have been lifted from a vampire B-movie. 

The cover of Frank Zappa's "Help, I'm a Rock" flung them into freakier pastures...(AllMusic)