Travel Agency SF Fuzz Psych Prog Frank Davis Fever Tree Original Viva

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Travel Agency - S/T
(US Viva V-36017 Stereo) 1968
The Travel Agency story is a complicated one.
What is known is they are from California,
formed in San Francisco and featured Frank Davis
who had previously worked in the studio
with the Fever Tree in Texas.
A self-titled LP, produced by Bread's James Griffin,
was released on LA's Viva Records in 1968.
Drummer Frank (real name Francisco) Lupica joined
a little later, prior to the LP.
Important Note: for the last time, Frank Davis was NOT
in this band as has long been mis-reported.
Lupica had previously been in Us, a Bob Segarini-led
garage band who'd recorded for the Autumn label in 1965
but whose sole 45 was not released due to a dispute over
arrangements between Segarini and the label -
see the CD compilation Nuggets From The Golden State:
Dance With Me for the full story. Us split soon after and Segarini
went on to lead a succession of more successful
bands (Family Tree, Roxy, Wackers).
When Tom Beal left the Travel Agency, he was not replaced
and the band carried on as a trio; it was this latter line-up that
recorded the LP, produced in L.A. by sessioneer James Griffin
(later of Bread) on Snuff Garrett's Viva label.
Side One is the stronger; the haunting and stately
neo-prog keyboard intro which blossoms into the poppy
What's A Man, strong fuzztone on Cadillac George,
and gentler love songs Lonely Seabird and So Much Love.
There are fast commercial rockers (Make Love and Old Man)
and catchy pop (That's Good). Perhaps because of this diversity
and the lack of band identity, thanks to the absence of
any member info or credits, the album was overlooked and
remains underrated. Steve Haehl and Frank Lupica reappeared
a couple of years later in Shanti, whose eponymous
Eastern-influenced LP was released in 1971. Two tracks thereon
were composed by non-member Mike Aydelotte, aka Michael Sage
when he was in Travel Agency. Lupica went on to a solo career and,
billed as Francisco, performed one-man shows all over California
playing numerous exotic instruments including a self-built electrified
I-beam; adorned with keyboards and other devices, he dubbed it
the Cosmic Beam. In 1976 he released his proto-new age LP,
Cosmic Beam Experience. In the same year he was musician and
composer for Tanka, a very short animated film about
Tibetan thankgas (images from the Tibetan Book Of The dead)
alongside former Shanti bandmates Ashish Khan and Pranesh Khan;
in 1979 he was sound effects creator for Star Trek The Motion Picture;
and in 1998 his music was used and sampled in the film The Thin Red Line.
He played violaon the Deep Song CD by Ranee Lee.
A small split on cover top left. Minor paper scuffs on Glossy disc

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All Visual Gradings Condition - Cover / Disc
VG++/VG++ to M-


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