1967 THE SEEDS FUTURE - GARAGE PSYCH PUNK - ORIG SKY

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1967 ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING!

                                  THE SEEDS

                    Future

 ...USA - GNP Crescendo - GNP 2038

ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING THICK GATEFOLD of the most classic FLOWER POWER Psychedelic SEEDS featuring Sky Saxon 

the SEEDS insisted on revisiting its formula, reinventing new versions of "Pushin' Too Hard" like "Flower Lady & Her Assistant." This is a sophisticated package with a gatefold which includes lyrics over pastel sunflowers as if the band was Joni Mitchell.  "Six Dreams" is Black Sabbath's Ozzie meeting George Harrison in some biker film soundtrack with weird sound effects and a sitar. The harp on "Fallin'" underscores Saxon's passionate garage vocal. Imagine, if you will, Brian Jones during the recording of Satanic Majesties deciding to bare all the excesses of rock stardom. This album is a trip, not because it reflects the ideas captured in the Peter Fonda film of the same name, but because a band had the audacity to experiment with record company money and make something so noncommercial and playful. Droning organ sounds penetrate "Fallin'," the seven minute, 40 second final track. Saxon writes in the inner-sleeve essay "Originations of the Flower Generation" "...The farmer lives by the elements alone, the sun, the rain, and the earth, but the earth needs its seeds to sow the flower generation of the leaf...." It's heady stuff, and the melody and sound of "Pushin' Too Hard" permeates incessantly. Hardly a Future, as the title proclaims, this is actually the Sgt. Pepper of the flower-power set, a reinvention of past efforts, but no "Strawberry Fields" or "Day in the Life" to bring it out of its cult niche. Very listenable, highly entertaining, and totally not for the mass audience. Tunes like "Now a Man" are low-key Ventures riffs with naïve guitar and Saxon being as indulgent as humanly possible. Despite its musical coolness, Future holds up quite well to repeated plays by sitting firmly in the past.

1. Introduction-March of the Flower Children
2. Travel With Your Mind
3. Out of the Question
4. Painted Doll
5. Flower Lady and Her Assistant
6. Now a Man
7. Thousand Shadows
8. Two Fingers Pointing on You
9. Where Is the Entrance Way to Play?
10. Six Dreams
11. Fallin'

CONDITION: The cover is solid with a little previous wear starting, just a little and not at all bad for over 40 years of being around. An obviously 'put up on the top shelf' item, there is barely visible a name that use to be on the cover, though hard to see) no split seams, no bends, it's solid VG+(+). 

The vinyl is VG++ with only light faint scuff line or two, harmless, upper level shine all over both sides, plays EXCELLENT! 

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record