Touch LP Street Suite PRIVATE PSYCH ORIG 1969 HEAR IT
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ULTRA RARE PRIVATE PSYCH!
This is the rarest of the rare. 100 original pressings of this classic LP were made! The LP is in EX- condition with some light scuffs, clean, distortion free grooves. Nice label, a few slight spindle traces. Cover in Fair condition with some moisture damage. Almost all of the original LP's have been accounted for! There hasn't been one sold in over a year world-wide, so get this original while you can! The CD reissue of this LP actually used an LP as its master, and who's to say that the grooves on this LP aren't the best of any example found so far? See for yourself in the samples that I archived today, and compare to the versions that you've heard. The last copy that sold on Ebay sold for $999 over a year ago, so don't be surprised by the flurry of bidding.
Check out a high res sample from the actual LP:
A local St. Louis, Missouri band. Only 100 copies of their album were pressed. We're talking an ultra rarity of the highest order here. There are a couple of throwaway country tracks (Happy Face and Got To Keep Travelling On) and the finale, Gettin' Off, is marred by a tedious drum solo but the rest is for the most part mindblowing psychedelia. The best of these are Catfish, with some bluesy psychedelic guitar work, and two social commentary songs, Get A Gun and Let's Keep The Children On The Streets, a song about the riots of the sixties.
Ray Schulte had earlier played in Bob Kuban and The In Men in 1962, before helping to form The Guise and, with his brother Jerry, an act called The Sheratons. Tiring of the pop and R&B scene, Touch were formed in mid-67, to create a more powerful fusion of psychedelic blues, and they quickly picked up support slots for acts such as Steppenwolf, Cream and Iron Butterfly, also playing at a free festival with Big Brother & The Holding Co. and Hourglass in '68.
Shortly after their album was recorded, Paulette headed West to join a commune, and Ovid quit. A new line-up recorded two further 45s, which feature some good fuzzy guitar work and in particular their version of Light My Fire, which is slower and fuzzier than The Doors', comes off well.
One final session in 1970, with Royal on electric harpsichord and lead vocals and David Surkamp (later of Pavlov's Dog). In particular The Magic Inside You is noteworthy for some fine lyrics, echoing the changing times. Incongruously, the band then landed the job as back up band for Tony Orlando & Dawn, who were riding high on a wave of commercial success from hits such as Tie A Yellow Ribbon.
OVID BILDERBACK perc
PAULETTE BUTTS vcls, tamb
JERRY SCHULTE bs
RAY SCHULTE (aka RAYMOND STONE) gtr, vcls, hrmnca
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