THEM Now-and Them ORIG 1968 TOWER Acid Fuzz Psych LP 1st PRESS EX CONDITION
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THEM~Now-and Them~ORIG 1968 TOWER Acid Fuzz Psych LP~1st PRESS~EX CONDITION THEM~Now-and Them~ORIG 1968 TOWER Acid Fuzz Psych LP~1st PRESS~EX CONDITION
Them ?– Now - And "Them"
Tower ?– ST 5104
VERY RARE ORIGINAL PRESSING OF THIS UNDERRATED PYSCH ALBUM BY THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF VAN MORRISON'S THEM!
PRESSED IN 1968 - ALMOST HALF A CENTURY AGO!!
COVER IS IN VG++ CONDITION WITH A STAPLE HOLE IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER, A BEND IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER, AND A SPLIT IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER WHICH HAS BEEN REPAIRED WITH CLEAR TAPE.
VINYL IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH LIGHT SCUFFS AND SOME PRESSURE MARKS.
IT PLAYS VERY WELL WITH OCCASIONAL POPS/CLICKS.
Tracklist
A1 Witch Doctor 2:33
A2 What's The Matter Baby 2:45
A3 Truth Machine 2:05
A4 Square Room 9:51
B1 You're Just What I Was Looking For Today 2:55
B2 Dirty Old Man (At The Age Of Sixteen) 1:44
B3 Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out 3:33
B4 Walking In The Queen's Garden 3:02
B5 I Happen To Love You 2:53
B6 Come To Me 2:20
Arranged By – Al Capp*, John Bahler
Artwork [Cover Art] – Bob Zoell
Bass – Alan*
Co-producer – Marty Cooper (tracks: B5), Them (3) (tracks: A4, B4)
Drums – Dave Harvey (7)
Lead Guitar – Jim Armstrong
Liner Notes – Carol Deck
Producer, Liner Notes, Management – Ray Ruff
Saxophone, Organ, Flute – Ray Elliott
Vocals – Kenny McDowell
The average '60s rock fan should be aware of this vital fact about Now & Them right away: This is not the version of the band that is most familiar, with Van Morrison on lead vocals. In fact, Morrison does not appear at all on this album, the first of the obscure LPs recorded by a reorganized Them after Morrison's departure for a solo career. For that simple reason, it cannot be compared to Them's previous recordings, either in quality or in style. Getting beyond that, it's not a bad record, though not a particularly good one, and pretty lacking in consistent direction. Perhaps because this was recorded in Hollywood (where Them was based at the time), it has a surprisingly American sound in many places. Yet their new sound, whatever it was, didn't coalesce, and the record seemed almost the work of several bands rather than one. There was fairly hard-nosed British R&B in the cover of John Mayall's "I'm Your Witch Doctor," American-styled blue-eyed soul on the cover of Timi Yuro's "What's the Matter Baby," bubblegummy psych-pop on "Truth Machine," echoes of the Monkees and the Association on "You're Just What I Was Looking for Today," a muted "Gloria" rewrite on "Dirty Old Man (At the Age of Sixteen)" (whose Strawberry Alarm Clock-like harmonies dilute the original arrangement, cut by the group slightly earlier on a non-LP single), disposable jazz-blues on "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out," Standells-styled garage rock on "Walking in the Queen's Garden," and an inferior cover of "I Happen to Love You" (done better by both the Myddle Class and the Electric Prunes). The big problem, however, was that the group simply did not have a lead singer miles within Van Morrison, nor did they write original material miles within what Morrison penned for the earlier Them records. For all that, it does contain one nice, lengthy, haunting raga rock piece, "Square Room," undoubtedly the most original work on the record, and the album's highlight.
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