WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND WHERE'S MY DADDY

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Up for auction this time is the 1969 Psych LP by the WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND titled WHERE'S MY DADDY on AMOS RECORDS AAS 7004 in Stereo.  "PROMOTIONAL COPY NOT FOR SALE" ON BOTH LABELS.

LP condition is NM- with no scratches or play wear, but some paper sleeve marks keeping this record from being a solid Near Mint.  Tiny trace of writing on one of the labels.  Sound quality will be a Near Mint record.  Cover with no holes, no cuts, and no splits in jacket, but has a rubber stamp on back and some writing.  Also, cover seems to have some mosture staining.  and there for must be downgraded to VG and not the VG+ I would give this cover with no markings.

Beautiful promo copy of this impossible to find Original Psych Relic.  Stock copies are not around in Original issues in good clean condition, and promos are just never found.  If you can get over a VG cover, then this is a stunning LP.  Perhaps find a better cover for this beautiful Promo copy.

scans are coming of jacket and labels.

A true RARE vintage Psych piece!

If a band could ever be called a psychedelic group, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band fit the bill. This somewhat mysterious collection of L.A. players issued several albums in the late '60s that plugged into the era's standard folk-rock, freakouts, and trippy lyrics without establishing a solid identity of their own. But because the currents they were riding were themselves so inspired.  They cut a fair number of tracks, moving without rhyme or reason from straightforward Byrds and Kinks cops to zany orchestrated self-absorbed psychedelic pop to self-conscious exercises in hippy outrageousness (including, of all things, a cover of the Mothers' "Help I'm a Rock"). Though their legacy reeks of determined trendiness, the best of their output holds up reasonably well.

When the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band were booted by Reprise following the commercial failure of their three albums for the label, their former producer Jimmy Bowen signed the band to his own Amos label for a follow-up. The result, 1969's Where's My Daddy?, surely must qualify as one of the creepier musical efforts of its year. Even without prior knowledge of bandleader and lyricist Bob Markley's later descent into severe mental problems, not to mention a string of arrests involving underage girls, the lyrics of this album are disturbing; with that background, some of them are downright horrifying. A concept album of sorts, Where's My Daddy? charts the odyssey of "Poor Patty" (possibly the barefoot ten-year-old street kid pictured on the album's sleeve) through the post-Summer of Love bad trips of the Los Angeles street scene. From the Lolita-like innuendoes of "Everyone's Innocent Daughter" to the climactic "Two People," which ends up with a beaten and raped Patty pleading her case to a disinterested judge, side two of Where's My Daddy? is like one of those cautionary morality films of the '40s and '50s as reinterpreted by Dennis Hopper's character from Blue Velvet. The music seems almost secondary, with most of the brief tracks consisting of little more than one- or two-chord vamps under Markley's increasingly fragmented and freaky story. More of an album to be marveled at than enjoyed, Where's My Daddy? holds a certain psychological fascination.  

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