WALT MCKENZIE Forever New RARE XIAN PSYCH Private Press AL PERKINS * SEALED MINT
  $   70

 


$ 70 Sold For
Nov 1, 2022 Sold Date
Oct 28, 2022 Start Date
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WALT MCKENZIE – “FOREVER NEW” LP. 

PRIVATE PRESS AS “LIFELINE RECORDS WMC-7001” / STEREO / STILL SEALED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINKWRAP AND IN NEAR MINT CONDITION – SMALL SECTION OF SHRINKWRAP MISSING FROM THE BACK COVER. 

TOTALLY RARE LATE-1970’S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA XIAN HIPPIE ROCK FEATURING SOME SERIOUSLY NOTABLE PLAYERS ON A SESSION THAT SEEMS MOSTLY FORGOTTEN… 

AL PERKINS PRODUCED IT AND PLAYS A BUNCH OF GUITAR, STEEL GUITAR, AND BANJO ALL OVER IT… PERKINS IS BEST REMEMBERED AS A MEMBER OF THE GREAT PSYCHEDELIC ROCK BAND MORNING, AS WELL AS BEING A MEMBER OF STEPHEN STILLS’ MANASSAS, BUT HE PLAYED ON LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF SESSIONS IN THE 70’S, NOTABLY PLAYING ALL THAT BADASS STEEL GUITAR ON THE ROLLING STONES “TORN AND FRAYED” ON “EXILE ON MAIN STREET” AND ON SIGNIFICANT RECORDINGS BY THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS, RITA COOLIDGE, GRAM PARSONS, JOE WALSH, THE EAGLES, DAN FOGELBERG, RANDY NEWMAN, ROGER MCGUINN, THE JAMES GANG, AND JUST TONS MORE! 

LEGENDARY JAZZ BASSIST JOHN PATITUCCI HANDLES ALL THE BASS PLAYING HERE… PATITUCCI DID A LONG STINT WITH CHRISTIAN CHANTEUSE TWILA PARIS, BUT ALSO DID TIME WITH HEAVYWEIGHTS LIKE CHICK COREA, TAL FARLOW, AND EVEN WAS (NOT WAS)! 

THE LEGENDARY RICHARD SOUTHER, FROM “A BAND CALLED DAVID” FAME, PLAYS KEYBOARDS HERE, ALONGSIDE SMITTY PRICE WHO PLAYED ON TONS OF EARLY CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN SESSIONS IN THE 70’S AND 80’S… CACTUS MOSER — WHO LATER MARRIED WYNONNA JUDD — PLAYS THE DRUMS… 

RECORDED BY JOE BELLAMY AT THE NOW LEGENDARY PEACE IN THE VALLEY STUDIO IN ARLETA, CALIFORNIA… THIS SESSION DOESN’T SHOW UP IN ANY DISCOGRAPHY FOR PEACE IN THE VALLEY SESSIONS AND I’M THINKING THIS IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SESSIONS BELLAMY RECORDED THERE… PROBABLY LATE 1977 OR MID 1978. 

WHATEVER THE CASE, IT’S A STONE-COLD XIAN PRIVATE-PRESS RARITY — AND UNDOUBTEDLY A LATE-PERIOD LAUREL CANYON SOFT-ROCK HIPPIE BOULDER!!! YOWZA! DIG DEEP, DIGGERS! 

ALL REASONABLE OFFERS ENTERTAINED! DON’T BE SHY! 

WE HAVE OVER 22 YEARS EXPERIENCE SELLING COLLECTIBLE AND RARE RECORDS AND BOOKS, AS WELL AS POP CULTURE COLLECTIBLES, EPHEMERA, AND EFFLUVIA!!! ALL OUR ITEMS ARE PERSONALLY INSPECTED AND CONSERVATIVELY GRADED! SO, BUY WITH CONFIDENCE!!! 




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