1968 PAUPERS Fuzz Psych Garage Sgt Pepper FLICKER BOOK
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1968 Garage PEPPER Psych grooves + cool photo group *flick book* insert!
==MONO==
= THE PAUPERS =
ELLIS ISLAND
USA - Verve Forcast - FT 5031 - MONO - PROMO
ULTRA RARE Original *MONO* 1968 VINYL PROMOTIONAL COPY first pressing of coool and underrated garage psych LP ala Sgt Pepper-isms moves and grooves...
First off, major labels had all but stopped producing MONO albums by the end of 1967, finding a mono release after 1967 (like this 1968 copy) is something special, be sure, not many of these (as a mono promo) were ever made...
The mono release contains different song mixes from the stereo issue and, as well, features a solid punchy mono production completely different from the stereo issue.
***contains the elusive large fold-out photo/ *flick book* insert ...yeah, the flicker book is unassembled, but makes pictures in motion of our heros (in action!)....
1968 Ellis Island the second album by the Paupers, contains a front cover color photo of the four bandmembers inserted on a Sgt. Pepper-style collage by Ollie Alpert. Inside the LP is a very psychedelic black-and-white picture of the group, which also features 16 single photos of The Paupers 4 members — photos which you can cut out to make a flick book! Like a trendy flicker ring with more sustain, you can see the musicians move in the optical illusion if you follow the instructions. Problem with this concept was that there was no Andy Warhol to splash his name on the cover and get the idea some attention à la the famous banana cover.
If Verve Records (the groups record company) had difficulty understanding the Mothers of Invention and the Velvet Underground, where the Paupers fit in was anybody's guess. Adam Mitchell takes seven of the nine lead vocals as the band touches on a variety of psychedelic styles, beginning with "South Down Road." This opening track plays like Procol Harum battling the Electric Prunes -- it's eight and a half minutes of acid blues on an interesting album by an interesting crew. Mitchell's originals, four co-written with Skip Prokop, are an odd bunch. It seems Procol Harum won the war on the first song because "Cairo Hotel" sounds like they've now taken on Kaleidoscope U.K. in a battle of the bands. The intellectual display quickly disappears when the rural comedy of "Another Man's Hair on My Razor" brings side one to a close. OK, it's amusing, but despite all the Sgt. Pepper trappings, there's no "Lucy in the Sky" in these grooves. Al Kooper guest stars on keyboards, and maybe they should have taken his "This Diamond Ring" and jumped the gun on Frijid Pink by reinventing that pop classic with a wall of distortion. Side two's opener, "Numbers," could be "Eight Miles High". "Numbers," with its Strawberry Alarm Clock guitars and Janis Joplin bassist-to-be Brad Campbell singing lead, is jarring, but that's the rule on this album. Campbell would go on to play on I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! and Pearl with Joplin. Interesting to note the credible resumés involved in this esoteric project. Skip Prokop's one solo composition is also his one vocal -- doing an off-key Keith Moon-style vocal over a dreamy track, the Small Faces phase shifting meets...you guessed it...Procol Harum. This track is minus the fuzz guitars, instead employing effects, giving the listener some breathing room. Adam Mitchell takes the vocals back from here on out -- it's a dramatic "Yes I Know" written by Campbell, Prokop, and Mitchell, six minutes and 23 seconds of more psychedelic blues. This music would've been a blessing for the latter-day Blues Magoos and Electric Prunes, groups who moved away from these types of sounds, much to the chagrin of their fans. Without the hit singles those groups enjoyed, the Paupers' Ellis Island never got the attention it kind of deserved. It is both vintage and obscure, which will make it quite collectable...
- South Down Road
Cairo Hotel - Can't Go On
Another Man’s Hair On My Razor - B:
Numbers - Oh That She Might
Yes I Know
Ask Her Again - Julliana
CONDITION: The cover has a PROMO/MONO sticker at bottom of a 'stereo' cover (wasn't commercially released in mono) is all solid and stiff M- with NO problems! Top clean 40+ yrs old collectible lost psychedelic gem...
The vinyl is ALL shiny and smoooth "M-" excellent ~~ expect to play TOP LEVEL !
The un-assembled flick book is in M- condition
40+ year old garage psych artifact as a super rare MONO / PROMOTIONAL
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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