The Other Half, Love, Randy Holden Psych Garage Nuggets
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The Other Half - Self-Titled LP 1968 Stereo Acta A-38004
Cover: Good
Vinyl: Good
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On Mar-05-04 at 12:06:09 PST, seller added the following information: The vinyl label is yellow. Again, the numbers are Stereo A-38004 on the cover. On the vinyl label itself it says: Stereo A-38004 LPS 76,639. I don't know how the goldmine grading system works because I have yet to buy their price guide. But I know this is a quality copy. It plays and sounds just fine. However, It does have a lot of light surface scratches on both sides and I'm not sure what that means value wise. On the sleeve you can see the worst damage in the scan. It still has a respectable gloss to it. The back also has some dirt but nothing too intense. Feel free to ask me anything else. On Mar-06-04 at 04:20:32 PST, seller added the following information:Ok, this is my last description revision. I just want to say that I listened to this record again and it totally rules, there's something for everyone here. "Introduction" is a bonafide song; even if it only a minute and fifty seconds. It has a classic sort of British invasion feel (they were from California) and has some cool sounds of girls screaming on it. That song segways into "Feathered Fish," and something magic happens. Arthur Lee wrote this song while at the height of his powers in the mid-sixties but for whatever reason Love never recorded it. It's truely a lost classic with some of Arthur's most bizzare lyrics. The chorus, for example, goes "Feathered fish are quite a dish in the dark. Six and Third is where my bird starts to bark." The only other group know to have recorded this song during the 1960's was the Sons of Adam. They were the group Randy Holden was in before the Other Half and, actually, also featured Michael Stuart who was Love's drummer on De Capo and Forever Changes. Anyway, the point is, the song is a must hear for Love fans and although the Sons of Adam version has show up on a bunch of comps and is somewhat available, this version has remained fairly obscure. This is a shame because the Other Half version is more forceful and raw and, to my ears, better. We get three more garage rave-ups namely "Flight of the Dragon Lady," "I Need You" (not the Kinks song) and "Oz Lee Eaves Drop"(I'm assuming this is a reference to the infamous Owsley LSD being dropped on the regular in those days.) Plus, the song "Wonderful Day" where they get all emo and show the softer side of their sixties male personas. That's side one. Side Two starts with "Bad Day" which rips-off the guitar line from the Beatles "Taxman" and has some neat sounding, yet subtle, backwards tape looping. The next song is "Morning Fire." In my mind, this is the album's other highlight. It has this really interesting middle eastern guitar line that keeps popping up and this weird electronic sort of oscillator noise. The last two song "What Can I Do For You, First Half" and "What Can I Do For You, The Other Half" are two parts of a longer jammier number. I can't completely endorse this part of the album because at almost ten minutes it gets a little boring and self-indulgent, but it does give Holden time to stretch out and show off his impressive gutair chops and it still beats the heck out of the Blue Cheer. Lastly, I'd like to state that this record has never skipped whenever I've listened to it and it sounds clear and undistorted. In fact, if I didn't need the money I would'nt be selling it because I kind of dig it (if that wasn't abundently clear.)
Here's what Ritchie Unterberger writes about the Other Half on the All Music Guide: This obscure San Francisco '60s band gained a degree of notoriety in the '80s when their punk-garage single "Mr. Pharmacist" was included on one of Rhino's Nuggets compilations and covered by the Fall. Actually, most of the Other Half's material was far less garage than psychedelic, featuring the sustain-laden guitar of Randy Holden, one of the best Jeff Beck-inspired axemen of the '60s. Boasting a just-out-of-the-garage approach to Haight-Ashbury psychedelia, the group cut a little-heard, fairly strong album, as well as a few rare singles, in 1967 and 1968. Holden, who had previously played in the L.A. psychedelic garage band Sons of Adam, went on to join Blue Cheer and record on his own.
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