ULTIMATE SPINACH Behold & See V Rare Orig 1968 US MONO Promo Only Acid Psych LP
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Ultimate Spinach
Behold & See
Very Rare original US LP released on MGM Records in 1968. 1st US Promo Only MONO pressing with a custom Yellow MGM label, the sleeve has a 'DJ' and 'MONO' sticker on the front.
Ultimate Spinach's second album The Penultimate Spinach (as they would make only one more LP) is a slightly more subdued continuation of the derivative psychedelia in their debut. Again, it's like a hack take on West Coast groups. There's Country Joe & the Fish in Ian Bruce-Douglas' electric keyboards (which don't play anything as good as his solos on "Sacrifice of the Moon" from the first album); Jefferson Airplane-like female vocals (by guest singer Carol Lee Britt) and songwriting on "Where You're At"; some Quicksilver Messenger Service-type guitar arrangements on "Mind Flowers"; a melody and vocal reminiscent of Kaleidoscope's "Keep Your Mind Open" on "Fragmentary March of Green"; and more. Songwriter Bruce-Douglas' lyrics are unintentional hippie parodies without any irony or humor, whether solemnly aspiring to a beatnik state ("take a trip to the center of your mind") or indicting the straight world ("he has an ulcer in his brain, from thinking of how to divorce his wife"). When the album turns to social critiques, it's uncertain whether the band is trying to mimic the Mothers of Invention without the wit, or whether they're unwittingly embodying the very kinds of groups whom the Mothers took the piss out of on We're Only in It for the Money.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
1 Gilded Lamp Of The Cosmos 2:30
2 Visions Of Your Reality 5:49
3 Jazz Thing 8:20
4 Mind Flowers 9:38
Side Two
1 Where You're At 3:10
2 Suite: Genesis Of Beauty (In Four Parts) 9:56
3 Fifth Horseman Of The Apocalypse 5:50
4 Fragmentary March Of Green 6:51
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Released on MGM Records in 1968
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Catalogue Number E-4570
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Record is in Ex condition (few light surface marks)
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Sleeve is in Ex + condition (spine has been neatly taped)
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