UK ORIG THE CREATION 1966 1967 SLASHING MOD FREAKBEAT The Who Small Faces ++
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1973 COLLECTIBLE FREAKBEAT MAGIC
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~ THE CREATION ~
UK - Mad Hatter Charisma -CS 8
Original, rare and sought for good reason, the 1973 UK pressing loaded up on the raw 45 mixes of the mighty CREATION - direct from metal masters. Many in-the-know musicologists would advise the Creation to be the ultimate UK Mod freak-beat band from the Swingin' '60s London scene. One listen to this platter and it's hard to argue...
44 years ago UK-only pressing depicts the glorious raw slashing CREATION in top form - 1966 - 1967:::
The Creation can be awesome. So who gives a damn about Creation – yet another semi-failed mid-sixties band with two minor chart entries? Ask Jimmy Page. He requisitioned Creation guitarist Eddie Phillips tetchy-rasping violin-bow droning Gibson 335-guitar technique at the very inception of Led Zeppelin via his stint with the Yardbirds. Ask Ron Wood of the Stones who served briefly in the Creation line-up. Ask Shel Talmy, producer, co-conspirator and some would say creator of the Kinks and the Who. He always talked of Creation with high regard. The Creation performed braincell-blazing work: Our Music Is Red – With Purple Flashes.' Creation are something of a cult. A flash and gaudy legend.
The Creation were ‘the ultimate exponents of freakbeat’. But in their time they more perfectly epitomised Op Art in UK Pop-Rock. Op, or Optical Art, specialised in the manipulation of strong, distinctive, deliberately disturbing visual effects. A spin-off of Pop Art, picked up and plundered by the image-hungry aware of Swinging London through exhibitions – and later through glossy Mod journals like ‘Rave’, and TV Shows like ‘Ready Steady Go’. Both of these institutions promoted Op Art rock bands.
Flip out the sleeve of that first Who album, ‘My Generation’ (1965), get a load of the distorted guitar sounds and effects spattered across “I Can’t Explain”, “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” and “My Generation” are attempts to translate an optical effect into an aural one. Just as the angry grating guitar solo mid-way on the Smallfaces debut single “Whatcha Gonna Do About It” was also billed as Op (or Pop) Art (the two distinct artistic disciplines tended to blur with general acceptance). But Creation were the ultimate Op Art band. A group who best epitomized the whole proto-psychedelic movement. Eddie Phillips first told Norrie Drummond of ‘New Musical Express’ that ‘we see our music as colours. It’s purple with red flashes’ (4 November 1966). So explaining their whole theatrical dynamic which was planned and executed as a multimedia assault, from Phillips’ violin-bowing technique and ear-splitting controlled feedback, through vocalist Kenny Pickett who aerosols instant Abstract Expressionist art on stage choreographed to the music, using spray-cans or spattering paint-bombs on canvas-screen backdrop-props which he then rips up and shrapnels at the audience, or ignites into vivid action-art pyres. Sometimes he paints willing girl’s bodies too. And the band’s astonishing singles – while predict the wildness and weirdness of psychedelia to come, tie themselves temporally to the whole visual arts movement better than any released before, or since.
Creation’s finest material is littered across both sides of this platter ...
Creation ‘were so close to making it, Pete Townshend asked their guitarist, Eddie Phillips, to join the Who. He wouldn’t, so Townshend joined the Creation fan club...
Making Time
Life Is Just Beginning
If I Stay Too Long
Through My Eyes
Hey Joe
Painter Man
Cool Jerk
How Does It Feel
Try and Stop Me
I Am the Walker
Can I Join Your Band
Tom Tom
CONDITION: The cover: rated: VG++ extremely- ragile 44 years ago first print handled lightly (visuals) -- still very collectible -- there are no delete marks, no split seams and no writing ... VERY collection worthy ...
The vinyl: Rated: M- smooth and clear, plays perfectly (M-) enjoyable ...No issues ... both UK Charisma labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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