The Serpent Power M- UBER RARE MONO FIRST PRESSING '67 SAN FRAN PSYCH HOLY GRAIL
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Description
The Serpent Power-S/T (Vanguard VRS 9252 MONO) M- with VG+ jacket with minor 8.5” x .5” strip missing on the B/C overlay (see scan). Comes with the original gray and white Vanguard inner sleeve.
Cherry copy of UBER RARE MONO FIRST PRESSING of this legendary '67 San Francisco psych band featuring poet Richard Meltzer and his wife Tina.
Note: You virtually never see this noticeably different mono mix offered so don’t miss out!
You can hear the entire album on Youtube (or at least the stereo pressing since I don't think the mono one is posted there).
“Think of the Serpent Power as the Bay Area's version of the Velvet Underground. Led by poet David Meltzer, with Meltzer on untutored post-folk guitar, Meltzer and his wife Tina singing his songs, poet Clark Coolidge clattering behind on drums, and the soon-vanished John Payne fixing a hole on organ, their music was minimalist folk-rock with noise--the climactic, electric-banjo augmented "Endless Tunnel" goes on for thirteen minutes. Some songs began as poems, other didn't, but all feature notable lyrics--some romantic, some gruff, some both. And all but a few are graced by excellent tunes, none more winsome than that of the lost classic "Up and Down." [Robert Christgau/Rolling Stone: The 40 Essential Albums of 1967]
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