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RD 007CD
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"An unreleased album from this post-Day Blindness band, recorded in 1969/70. This album is a heavy bluesy psychedelic masterpiece of the highest order. It is virtually the second Day Blindness album with slight personnel changes, but musically in a more heavy psychedelic direction. The lead guitarist Gary Pihl is well known today for being the guitar player of Boston. Here he plays an amazing psychedelic guitar and it reminds us in parts of the mighty Mariani's Perpetuum Mobile album. Superb bass guitar by Johnny V. Vernazza and crazy drums by Roy Garcia, who later went to play with the legendary band Gold (of Rockadelic Records fame!). Only one 45 single was ever released of those fantastic sessions on Studio 10, and the single is mega rare these days. CD features 2 long (20 minutes!!!) bonus tracks." Enhanced CD-ROM content with band history, pictures and additional notes.
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RD 006CD
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One of the most eye-opening LP archival issues of 2007 is now also available on CD, with bonus tracks. Also including members Mark Levinson and Bruce Langhorne. "This is what can be called one of the major sensations in the raga influenced psychedelic/acid folk field. Also some of the earliest recordings in this genre and hitherto unreleased. After the release of the Light of Day album in 1966 the now legendary Pat Kilroy and Susan Graubard went on with playing and creating music together. What you hear on this album is what they recorded for Warner Brothers in the summer of 1967, a true groundbreaking adventure of the highest order. They expanded in the direction they started in 1966 and the result is far beyond and superior to everything I heard from that time period before in this musical style except for Tim Buckley. No wonder that it didn't come out at that time because those recordings were for sure far too adventurous for Warner Brothers and also for almost other leading music companies at the time. Incredible -- and I mean INCREDIBLE raga influenced psychedelic/acid folk with some of the best songwriting I know of with monstrous lyrics and deep lead vocals. Also a wide range of instruments were played like incredible raga-esque acoustic guitar, electric bass, Spanish cowbells, bell tree, silver flute, bamboo flutes, viola, tamboura, conga drums, tables, acoustic and electric bass and tambourine. Pat Kilroy sadly died of Hodgkin's disease in December of 1967 at a very young age. If this record had a proper release at the time, it would be a major classic and a milestone today in the psychedelic history book. This CD release contains six superb never before released bonus tracks recorded at Warner Brothers Studios and KPFA-FM radio station during 1967. Be ready for an incredible musical trip along with an amazing, long and very intense story behind." [please note that all copies of this CD have brief digital glitches on tracks 12 & 13 -- these are not going to be corrected or repressed]
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RD 005CD
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CD reissue of this unreleased album of West Coast psych recordings from 1969. "CD of LP plus one bonus track. Monstrous & unreleased at the time heavy/psychedelic/West Coast artifact of the highest order. This is one of the five best-ever promo-only releases to emerge from California. Only released in a quantity of a couple of copies to get a major record deal that never materialized. Three of the songs were used in a low-budget biker flick called Black Angels. The original demo LP had only a plain black label with no kinds of credits. We found this hidden gem looking for unreleased music by the band The Zoo of Presents Chocolate Moose fame. The original producer told us that a demo-only LP was released by The Zoo after the Chocolate Moose album. The slightly different line-up had the name Joyful Noise (you can see a scan of the acetate in Hans Pokora's 4001 Record Collector's Dreams) but at this time they were looking for a tougher name to fit to the music and they found Mad Dog. Under this name a couple of test pressings were done. So we made a re-release deal straight away.The tape was sent for remastering and cover artwork. To our surprise the guy told us, after hearing the tape, that he knew the music and that it had already been re-released by another label without any kinds of info using the numbers from the dead end part of the vinyl which was C1/C2! The C was for Cavett, the producer's name. Since the project was already paid, we decided to go on with the release to please collectors with an amazing remastering straight from the master tapes, and an insert with unseen pictures and a band bio written by Morgan Cavett."
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RD 015LP
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"Long awaited release of the best unsigned San Francisco band of the '60s! Side 1 is the now legendary 1969 1-sided demo-only LP from the remastered mastertape. Side 2 are studio recordings from the Church in San Anselmo, CA in 1971. Side 3 and 4 are live recordings from the Walnut Creek Civic Center, CA in 1970. The front cover was done by the legendary '60s poster artist Randy Tuten. The booklet includes hitherto unseen photos and the story of the band told by the different musicians. Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl; comes with a heavy old style cardboard foldout cover and a multi page insert."
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RD 012LP
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First commercial release of this album, recorded in 1969. "Monstrous & unreleased at the time heavy/psychedelic/West coast artifact of the highest order. This is one of the five best ever promo only releases to emerge from California. Only released in a quantity of a couple of copies to get a major record deal that never materialized. Three of the songs were used in a low-budget biker flick called Black Angels. The original demo LP had only a plain black label with no kinds of credits. We found this hidden gem looking for unreleased music by the band 'The Zoo' of 'Presents Chocolate Moose' fame. Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with unseen pictures and a band bio written by Morgan Cavett."
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RD 017LP
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"This was basically a follow-up band of Country Weather as a trio featuring Greg Douglass and Bill Baron. Mistress played all over the San Francisco Bay Area for the better part of a year. They had it all going for them, the songs, the musicianship, drive, ambition, the right attitude, the fans, everything, everything that is except for time; they didn't give it enough before they called it quits. Their first gig was June 15, 1973 and their last was July 14, 1974 and in between there was a ton of fun and a lot of hard rockin'. The first time lightning struck for Mistress was in 1996, when TaXim Records in Germany released their original album Free Flyte. The second time that lightning struck Mistress is now, with the release of New Ground, a new album of old music. The music on New Ground is taken from some early rehearsals, demos and radio broadcasts. There are also tracks from Wally Heiders famed San Francisco recording studios. This was in the final days with their new drummer Chuck Burgi who had just replaced Bill Baron about a month before. This was all in an effort to streamline and make their sound a little leaner and meaner and it worked like magic, these are some of their hottest recordings. The insert includes photos of the band and the story told by the different musicians."
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RD 008LP
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"The second record in the series of unreleased obscure bands mentioned in Ralph Gleason's book The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound after RD 7 (Haymarket Riot) This rural Westcoast/blues/psychedelic album from the early days (1967) includes 5 long tracks with furious guitar, organ jams and powerful vocals, reminding to many of the numerous milestones of legendary SF era. All recordings are arranged professional, which guarantees a perfect sound from the original mastertapes. Contains an insert with a very detailed band story, thick cover and thick vinyl."
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RD 006LP
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Elaborate reissue of an early 70s American psychedelic classic, originally issued on the Kent label as a deluxe gatefold double album. From the LA area, this mixes sprawling guitar, violin & some keyboard-weirdness with a patch of vague Buckley/Beefheart/Fankhauser reference points on to a base of melodic psych-rock extensions. With a lyrical vantage point not far from the heightened visionary nonsense of a Damon-like character, assumably delivered by Mr. Bob Smith (there is no longer any doubt that he really is "Bob Smith"), this delivers a final touch of addled magic. With this new reissue and accompanying liner notes by Bob, it can be confirmed that Daryl Dragon(!) and Don Preston (Mothers of Invention) helped him record this album, along with his backing group Silverskin." "Only legit reissue of the original Visit 2LP and a bonus LP recorded in 71/72, by Bob Smith. The Visit was recorded in 1970 in LA and it redefined the existing borders of the psychedelic movement. From the first thought about this album to its release it took 3 years to put all ideas in an musical concept -- the result: obscure and complex songs with mindblowing instrumentation and depth." All copies of the box show a certain amount of "wear" (and sometimes split corners), the box is poorly manufactured, to say the least, it's always been like that...
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RD 001CD
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"David and Tina Meltzer, the leaders of Serpant Power, from San Francisco recorded an album in 1969 for Capitol records which was never released. Music goes into Serpant Power direction -- same fantastic songwriting, great acid folk tunes and crystal clear voice of Tina make it to an outstanding album, better than the Poet Song on Vanguard. Contains detailed bio and is from the original mastertape."
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