WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND "VOL.III A CHILD'S GUIDE..." CANADA VG/VG-

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THREE YEARS AGO I LOST ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS TO CANCER, HE WAS A COOL MUSICIAN A DRUMMER BY TRADE, ORIGINALLY FROM SEATTLE, BUT RELOCATED TO L.A. IN 1985, HE AMASSED A VERY LARGE MUSIC COLLECTION, AND HAD KILLER TASTE FOR ROCK & ROLL, SADLY I AM SELLING OFF A LOT OF HIS COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF HIS WIDOW TO HELP PAY OFF DEBTS INCLUDING BILLS, TAXES AND STORAGE UNIT FEES. I AM NOT TAKING ANYTHING FOR THIS SERVICE, DOING IT FOR MY FRIEND (MISS YOU DAVE!). THIS ITEM IS FROM HIS COLLECTION.

THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. BUT I DO NOT ACCEPT “BEST OFFERS”, THE MONIES GO TO MY FRIENDS WIDOW.

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ARTISTS: WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND

TITLE: “VOL.III A CHILD'S GUIDE TO GOOD & EVIL”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

Eighteen Is Over The Hill

2:37

A2

In The Country

1:56

A3

Ritual #1

2:03

A4

Our Drummer Always Plays In The Nude

2:36

A5

As The World Rises And Falls

4:38

A6

Until The Poorest People Have Money To Spend

2:11

B1

Watch Yourself

5:16

B2

A Child's Guide To Good And Evil

2:17

B3

Ritual #2

1:58

B4

A Child Of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death

2:34

B5

As Kind As Summer

1:06

B6

Anniversary Of World War III

1:35

Credits

• Artwork By [Art Direction] – Ed Thrasher

• Cover Art – John Van Hamersveld

• Engineer – Joe Sidore

• Producer – Bob Markley, Jimmy Bowen

Notes

Tracklisting on cover and labels are different. Ones on labels are matched with actual listening.

Track duration's not mentioned on record or sleeve. Track duration's taken by timing

Cover Art by John Van Hamersveld - on back cover name shows as John Van Hamersveldt

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): 30763 RS 6298 A-1B

• Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): 30764 RS 6298 B-1B
  

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS CANADIAN PRESSING

CAT. #: RS 6298

YEAR: 1968

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN VG/VG- CONDITION. NO VISIBLE WEAR, SCRATCHES, LINES, BLEMS ETC. . NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER TO THE VINYL. AUDIO/SURFACE NOISE BETWEEN THE TRACKS. THERE IS SOME VERY LIGHT SURFACE NOISE, I HEARD ONE OR TWO SMALL “CLICKS” BETWEEN TRACKS.BUT SONGS PLAY CLEAN FOR THE MOST PART.. THERE IS LIGHT SURFACE SOUND, BUT NOTHING THAT CAUSES SKIPS, POPS, CLICKS ETC ETC. THIS IS A PRETTY CLEAN RECORD. THE SIDE 1 LABEL HAS WRITING ON IT (SEE PHOTO)

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG/VG- CONDITION THERE'S NO WRITING ON THE JACKET. STRAIGHT EDGES, NO WRITING, TEARS, WRINKLES OR SEAM SPLITS, ETC.ETC... DRILL HOLE IN THE JACKET DONE BY THE RECORD LABEL (SEE PHOTO). THIS HAS SOME VERY OBVIOUS WEAR, RING WEAR FRONT & BACK, ALSO WRITING IN RED CRAYON UPPER RIGHT CORNER, THERE'S A SMALL CORNER SEAM SPLIT UPPER RIGHT (SEE PHOTO)

MORE INFO: I TRY AND MATCH WHAT I AM SELLING WITH DISCOGS LISTINGS. THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. CANADIAN PRESSING. (SEE PHOTO). I AM A HUGE FAN OF THIS BAND AND WAS SURPRISED TO SEE IT IN DAVE'S COLLECTION, IT DOES HAS SURFACE NOISE, MAINLY THE LEAD IN GROOVE IN SIDE ONE, THERE IS BACKGROUND SOUND IN PLACES, A FEW MINOR CLICKS & POPS, BUT THIS IS SUCH A COOL RECORD, I HAVE MOST ALL OF THEIRS ON VINYL, AND I WAS UNAWARE OF A CANADIAN PRESSING, SO HERE YA GO.... GOOD LUCK! FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS...

BOB

MORE ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE:

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (WCPAEB) was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group created music that possessed an eerie, and at times sinister atmosphere, and contained material that was bluntly political, childlike, and bizarre. Representing different musical backgrounds among band members, the group, at times, resembled a traditional Byrds-esque folk rock ensemble, but the WCPAEB also, within the same body of work, recorded avant-garde music marked by multi-layered vocal harmonies.

Aspiring musician and scenester Bob Markley managed to join the group the Laughing Wind in exchange for his connections in the music industry and substantial bankroll. The original five-piece line-up consisted of Michael Lloyd (rhythm guitar, vocals), Shaun Harris (bass guitar, vocals, Danny Harris (lead guitar, vocals), John Ware (drums), and Markley (tambourine, vocals).

The band debuted with the album Volume One in 1966 on the small FiFo record label. In the early years of the group, much was made of the WCPAEB's elaborate psychedelic light shows, which became the focal point of their live performances in Los Angeles. Following the release of Volume One, the WCPAEB signed with Reprise Records, recording three albums with the company, including arguably their most accomplished work Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil in 1968. Two additional albums, Where's My Daddy? and Markley, A Group, were distributed on independent labels before the group disbanded in 1970.

Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil is the fourth album by the American psychedelic rock band The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (WCPAEB), and was released on Reprise Records in May 1968. By the time the group commenced recording Volume 3, guitarist Danny Harris had excused himself from the WCPAEB, reducing their numbers to a trio. As with the WCPAEB's earlier work, the album saw the band continue to blend psychedelic influences and complex studio techniques, and was marked by a bizarre fusion of innocence and malice in the band's lyrics. Volume 3 featured the WCPAEB's most ambitious music to date, and the striking cover art of John Van Hamersveld, yet it failed to sell in sufficient copies to chart nationally. In more recent times, the album has been considered the band's most accomplished work and a masterpiece of the psychedelic genre.

Background

The WCPAEB had toured extensively on the Los Angeles live circuit during the first two years of their existence, but by 1968 the band stopped performing to become a studio band and focus exclusively on record production. In terms of record sales, the WCPAEB had fallen short of success on their major label albums Part One and Vol. 2 (Breaking Through) released by Reprise Records.After Danny Harris succumbed to what his brother bassist Shaun Harris described as a "sort of manic depressive illness", the group was effectively dropped to the trio of Bob Markley, Shaun Harris, and Ron Morgan, with session musician Jim Gordon on drums.

Recording sessions for Volume 3 commenced in early 1968, with Markley and Jimmy Bowen producing and Joe Sidore serving as the audio engineer.Morgan was instrumental in creating the psychedelic sound effects that adorned much of the album's tracks. In an interview, Morgan's younger brother Robert recalled how Morgan provided his contributions to the album: "Ron could really put on his guitar antics! He would use some very unusual effects. He had a Magnatone which Seers Roebuck made for accordions and it had a wild organ-type of sound. He would also use a Lesley speaker and a lot of Vox equipment - amps and 12-strings - because the group were sponsored by them for a while".

Among the songs that were recorded for Volume 3, the Markley-Morgan penned composition "Eighteen Is Over the Hill" according to music historian Richie Unterberger was one of the album's most pleasing moments with "some exquisite pop harmonies".Another song written by the two, "As the World Rises and Falls", features a guitar line reminiscent of "Smell of Incense" from the previous album, and some of Markley's most poetic phrasing. The album's title-track made effective use of wordless harmony vocals and the oddly striking and macabre imagery monologued by Markley. Both "Ritual #1" and "As Kind as Summer" make ample use of sound manipulation techniques, the latter of which features a reel-to-reel tape manually rocked back and forth, (as one of the earliest examples of "scratching" found on a recording) over the word "evil", backwards and forwards, gradually slowed down to nothing. In addition, "As Kind as Summer", along with the "live" song "Watch Yourself", were credited to Robert Bryant and Robert Yeazel respectively, both musicians who performed live with the WCPAEB.

Volume 3 was released in May 1968 and despite being less focused than Volume 2, it nonetheless successfully expanded on the musical approach of its predecessor. The album's front cover features the artwork of graphic designer John Van Hamersveld, adding an abstract image which contrasted light and darkness.[Although the album failed to chart at the time, the work's reputation has grown over the years. Sean Lennon, writing for Rolling Stone magazine, placed Volume 3 in his list of lost psychedelic albums classics, and has described it as "really out there. They almost make Frank Zappa seem mainstream".A review on the Rising Storm website commented that the album is "a surreal set of beautiful folk-rock and off-the-wall psychedelic excursions from the mind of notorious west-coast playboy Bob Markley". Richie Unterberger was less than complimentary in his review, describing the album as contrived and "average or even unmemorable, easy-going late-1960s L.A. rock".

By the 1990s, a revival of interest in the WCPAEB had begun, which resulted in Sundazed Records reissuing Volume 3 and their previous three albums in 2001. The Sundazed reissue features two bonus tracks, the mono versions of "Shifting Sands" and "1906", both taken from their second album Part One. European reinstallments of Volume 3 omit "Anniversary of World War III", which is just total silence.

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