West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One US GARAGE PSYCH ROCK LP WCPAEB
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The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band ~ "Volume One"
Original German pressing on the highly collectable 3-color steamboat Reprise label (RS 6247) from 1967. The laminated cover is in excellent condition and the record is in very good condition.
This somewhat mysterious collection of L.A. players issued several albums in the late '60s that plugged into the era's psychedelic-rock scene, freakouts, and trippy lyrics without establishing a solid identity of their own. They cut a fair number of great tracks, moving without rhyme or reason from straightforward Byrds and Kinks edges to self-absorbed psychedelic pop grooves to self-conscious exercises in hippy outrageousness (including, of all things, a cover of the Mothers' "Help I'm a Rock"). The best of their output holds up extremely well.
With their impressive light show, the WCPAEB became popular around Los Angeles and were signed by Reprise Records. Their first "proper" album, "Part One", ranged from anthemic psychedelia tunes and catchy, trippy laced ballads, on to harder-edged psychedelic numbers. It reflected the tensions between the band’s musicians and Markley, who effectively controlled the band’s output but who was regarded by the others as musically untalented. Markley contributed rambling psychedelic lyrics and spoken sections, and the album also included ill-assorted inputs from nominal co-producer Jimmy Bowen, songwriters Baker Knight and P.F. Sloan, drummer Hal Blaine and pianist Van Dyke Parks. Disputes between Markley and Michael Lloyd also led to the inclusion of guitarist Ron Morgan, who over time became a fully fledged member of the band.
Tracklisting:
A
Shifting Sands
I Won't Hurt You
1906
Help I'm a Rock
Will You Walk With Me
Transparent Day
Leiyla
B
Here's Where You Belong
If You Want This Love
'Scuse Me Miss Rose
High Coin
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