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LION 151LP
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"First vinyl release for the band's incredible singles since their initial pressings in 1970/71 (Side A). First time on vinyl for all other tracks (Side B). LP limited to 500 copies. Insert includes band history, photos, and images of sheet music for several songs. Jarvis Street Revue's only album (1970), Mr.Oil Man, is an absolute heavy psychedelic monster that leaves no one who hears it untouched by it's sheer avalanche of psychedelic heaviness, wasted acid leads and great vocals. After recording it, Jarvis Street Revue toured for three months. 'We were treated like gods,' Jarvis leader and Neil Young running mate Tom Horricks said. The band did a cross-Canada tour to promote the album but unfortunately for them, as was often the case in those days, the album was not released until after the tour. So much for stardom. The band soon broke up. But tucked somewhere in the band's murky history were recording sessions that produced three stupendous psychedelic singles, plus tracks for an unreleased second album, Strands of Time. Sure, those singles and strays appeared on our Jarvis Street Revue CD, but most tracks make their vinyl debut here; as for the incredible, rare singles, they've never been compiled until this very moment! Insert includes band history, photos, and images of sheet music for several songs. 'Back in 1970, up in the cold North of Ontario, Canada hailed a group that had already had prophetic visions of the corporate, strictly-business, profit-driven, polluting, oil addicted, don't let the environment-get-in-the-way-of-a-buck bullshit world that we currently live in.' --Helios Chrome"
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PACE 033LN-CD
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"Poised between Toronto and Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Ontario became the unfortunate refuge for every touring band in Canada; that mandatory break while crossing the perilously vast Canadian Shield. With a nine-hour drive to anywhere else, Thunder Bay's isolation goes beyond the cold, Northwestern psyche. It permeates the Canadian consciousness, leaving its mark on every musician crossing the Bay's threshold. No doubt, Canada's vastness can be heard in much of the northernly musical output. There is perhaps no better example of this than Thunder Bay's Jarvis Street Revue. Their lone Columbia label LP from 1971 leaves no one untouched by the band's sheer avalanche of psychedelic heaviness, wasted acid leads and harrowing vocals. Every song is laced with a conviction born from the physical landscape they called home. Jarvis Street Revue spent (literally) a month of Sundays recording the album and bouncing tracks to create effects. The album's (and band's) concern with the environmental - including bold statements on the use and abuse of the oil reserves, rapacious business men, and the depletion of Earth's natural resources - were truly visionary. Tucked somewhere into the band's murky history were recording sessions for a handful of singles, and a few cuts for an unreleased second album, Strands of Time (1971); all of these other recordings (ten in all) are included as bonus tracks. This makes the entire output of this legendary band available for the first time in this revised and expanded version of this seminal psychedelic effort. Wrap around over-sized booklet has a band history by Tom Horricks, plus photos, images of sheet music for most of the songs, and lyrics for the band's greatest statement, Mr. Oil Man."
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