The Third Power - Believe (ORIGINAL 1st press of GREAT DETROIT HEAVY PSY 1970)

	€		53
	$		62

• Label:   Vanguard ?– VSD-6554, US 1970  
• White Label promo copy     
• Zustand: 
  Record: alltogether vg+ (A side has a few light marks, which do not affect play,  B side looks better) 
  Cover:  vg (corners bent/crinkled; edge wear but no seam splits, ring wear; promo-sticker on back) 
• Kommentar:  von rising storm
  

  The Third Power get straplined nowadays as “Detroit’s answer to Cream” and their sole album from 1970 is touted as “one of the finest psychedelic hard rock albums of its era”. Frankly, the first statement is an exaggeration; okay, there are similarities, particularly to the Brit trio’s live recordings, but find me a guitar-led three-piece of the time that didn’t draw on Cream, and of course on Hendrix, if you will. Like Jack Bruce, bassist Jem Targal utilised the thick, grinding sound of a Gibson EB-3 and sang in a beautifully articulated sub-operatic high tenor that could sound uncannily like Bruce’s, but guitarist Drew Abbott’s style owed little to Eric Clapton other than in his use of the universal pentatonics and bends and his occasional wielding of a clangy, reverbed Firebird. However, like Cream (but unlike many of their contemporaries: take a bow, Grand Funk Railroad), these guys really could play. Targal frequently includes fearsome bass double-stops and whole chords that even Bruce would never have sanctioned, and drummer Jim Craig moves effortlessly from subtle snare rolls to all-out cymbal assaults on his double kit, whilst Abbott’s funky rhythm chops and no-holds-barred mega-fast fretboard excursions contrast with Clapton’s by-then mature, restrained studio technique.

   By the time of their signing to Vanguard they’d settled into a straightforward progressive power-trio style based on collaborative musicianship with little studio trickery other than overdubbed lead guitars and occasional well-mixed-back keyboards. The material lacks the quirky artfulness of Bruce’s compositions with lyricist Pete Brown and the reliable blues-based inflections of Clapton’s writing with Martin Sharp; instead of Cream’s prevailing jazzy edge and twelve-bar framework you get melodic riff-rock, rattling funk-rock and stately ballads, nothing startlingly original but masterfully performed, with a crisp production by Vanguard’s legendary roots-music producer Sam Charters  which the reissue gratifyingly reproduces. The galloping “Lost In A Daydream” may owe a debt to Moby Grape, whilst “Comin’ Home” borrows the bombastic drums and pounding bass of many a Led Zep moment, and they get undeniably close to Cream on “Feel So Lonely” whose centre section steals its live feel, rolling rhythm and wailing guitar leads directly from “Crossroads” on the live Wheels Of Fire. “Passed By” is a totally un-Cream-like ballad carried on 12-string acoustic, piano and tambourine, whilst “Crystalline Chandelier” with its windchimes, flowing orchestral basswork and baroque harmonies is about as psychedelic as they get and could, I guess, be compared to some of Jack Bruce’s post-Cream solo work. The opening “Gettin’ Together” and closing “Like Me Love Me” are full-on, distortion-laden generic hard rock with all three players firing on all cylinders.           

• Tracks:
  A1 Gettin' Together 4:18 A2 Feel So Lonely 4:17 A3 Passed By 3:43 A4 Lost In A Daydream 2:31 A5 Persecution 3:24 B1 Comin' Home 3:49 B2 Won't Beg Any More 4:28 B3 Crystalline Chandelier 3:41 B4 Like Me Love Me 5:23

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Ich löse jetzt nach und nach meine Schallplattensammlung auf, die ich in über 30 Jahren zusammengesammelt habe...

I am liquidating during the following months my record-collection after collecting for over 30 years....  

Ich biete nur originale LP's an.
I am offering only original LP's.

Zustandbeschreibung: erst LP dann Cover   

Grading:    Record / cover

Zustandsangaben:

SS = still sealed = Platte ist noch versiegelt. Dies ist aber keine Garantie für  Pressfehlerfreiheit ! /
Record is still sealed . This is not a guarantee, that the record is free of pressing-defects

mint/m : Die Platte (bzw. Cover) ist in jeder Beziehung optisch und akustisch in einem neuwertigem Zustand /
The record/cover is in every way like new !

very good /vg = Platte ist gespielt und weist leichte Fremdgeräusche auf . Haarkratzer sind vorhanden jedoch kaum hörbar. Cover hat leichte Abnutzungsspuren /
Record is used and has slight surface noise. Slight scratches may be seen but only very hard to hear. Cover shows slight traces of wear

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