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2003 LP release on Veronica Breth's Del Val label ('the real follow-up to their pizzazzed debut'). "Legendary Grape is an album by Moby Grape -- original album was issued in 1989 as a five hundred copy, cassette-only release on Herman Records. The album was at the time credited to The Melvilles, being one of the names used by Moby Grape during the course of their protracted dispute with former manager Matthew Katz over ownership of the band name and related royalties. The album was recorded by original Moby Grape members Peter Lewis, Jerry Miller, Bob Mosley, and Don Stevenson. All group members contributed songs, as had been the case during all of the band's history. However, whereas in the past Jerry Miller and Don Stevenson had generally written together, including some of Moby Grape's best-known songs, both were now writing exclusively separately. Founding member Skip Spence was not well enough to perform, though one of his songs was included on the recording. It was the practice of Spence's bandmates to try to include at least one of his songs on every Moby Grape recording, irrespective of Spence's ability to participate in the recording." Very old stock, copies have edge warp not affecting play.
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2022 restock, low price, last copies. Del Val Records present a reissue of Tryad's If Only You Believe In Lovin', originally released in 1971 as a private press. Ultra-deluxe LP reissue on the newly resurrected Del Val label -- obscure but legendary label previously responsible for early editions by The Brigade, The Bachs, Bent Wind, D.R. Hooker, Fifty Foot Hose, etc. Long overdue and much delayed reissue of this 1971 NYC private press few have heard and less have seen. Comparable to the best UK folk-fusion LPs of the era, this is like a Yankee version of Hunter Muskett's great Every Time You Move (1970) with co-ed vocals plus bass/drums/pedal steel/flute/keys accompaniment and East Coast haunted not West Coast hip, though you'll be reminded of a certain revered private from out there that wouldn't exist for another five years: Relatively Clean Rivers. Comes with a four page lyric insert and the cover is what they were made like fifty years ago.
"Low key but really cool. Hard to believe it's an NYC piece from '72 from a sonic aspect. There's a kind of innocence to overall heft that puts me in mind of very early Bay Area stuff, like the second We Five LP (1967). That same sort of psych-is-hanging-unnamed-in-the-background vibe. The only thing that really places it in the '70s is that pedal steel which has a definite post-Sneaky-Pete feel. Very cool." --Byron Coley
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DV 011LP
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2013 release. Del Val Records present a reissue of Kevin Aprill's Sunset Upon An Imaginary Beach Of Latent Energy, originally released as a private press in 1971. What Charlie Tweddle should have sounded like and/or if Peter Grudzien had done Metal Machine Music (1975). Ultra-deluxe LP reissue on the newly resurrected Del Val label -- obscure but legendary label previously responsible for early editions by The Brigade, The Bachs, Bent Wind, D.R. Hooker, Fifty Foot Hose, etc.
Byron Coley in Bull Tongue Review: "There's also a totally blissed side of Basho-style guitar jumboism on the reissue of Kevin Aprill's Sunset Upon An Imaginary Beach Of Latent Energy, which purports to be a lost acetate from 1971. Let's assume it's true. The cover art is dandy and the second side lives up to the Charlie Tweddle comparison -- quite zonked, although in a space age sorta way. It's a pretty cool record.
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