THE WILD CHERRIES. KROME PLATED YABBIES. RARE AUSSIE ROCK SINGLE
A$
49
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Description
A rare opportunity to own a piece of Australian rock history. A great collectors item in good condition. Only surface marks and no deep scratches which is usual for a good copy of its age. It is fairly fresh and has not been played too much. It looks as though it belonged to a radio station. My guess is that it is an early pressing used for promotional purposes and will gain value in time. Items like this do not come up this often.
In early 1967 Les Gilbert put together a new version of The Wild Cherries, switched form bass to organ and crucially recruited guitar hero Lobby Loyde, who had just left The Purple Hearts. The Mark II Wild Cherries blitzed the trendy Melbourne disco circuit with its Cream and Hendrix-influenced amalgam of hard R&B and experimental psychedelia, a style that had scarcely been witnessed with such commanding power in Australia before. Gobsmacked audiences were bludgeoned with a menu of songs from those afore-mentioned artists, as well as fire-breathing versions of the band's early original Singles. The bizarre title of their debut 45 "Krome Plated Yabbie", belied its Move-ish incendiary power. Driven by Lloyd's feedback guitar pyrotechnics and the evil vocal inflections of Robinson, this emotive and dynamic tune sounded like nothing else on the airwaves during '67, and closed in a welter of Townshend-inspired guitar feedback freakery. Sorrce: http://www.milesago.com
