ALICE COOPER Easy Action 1970 UK STRAIGHT 1st PRESS EJ DAY GF
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Mar 13, 2015 Start Date
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ALICE COOPER Easy Action 1970 UK STRAIGHT 1st PRESS EJ DAY GF

ALICE COOPER
Easy Action

UK STRAIGHT ?(STS 1061) FIRST ISSUE (June 1970)
PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL (172g) WITH THE UK STRAIGHT LABELS
MATRIX: STS-1061-A1 / STS-1061-B1
THE ALBUM IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL GATEFOLD "Sleeve printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford."
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND "FOREIGN PATENTS PENDING" PRINTED IN BLUE

The author of the book 'Alice Cooper', Steve Demorest, accurately calls this "the great undiscovered" Cooper album.
Pretties for You is a difficult record, and Love It to Death is a classic, but this pre-Bob Ezrin album, created with help from Neil Young producer David Briggs, might be the perfect picture of an evolving Alice Cooper Group.
"Mr. & Misdemeanor" has Cooper beginning to define his nasty trademark vocal style: "Here's new pretties for you/nobody likes me but we adore you." Cooper became known for writing two-and-a-half- to three-minute catchy tunes with negative themes, augmented by longer pieces toward the end of the recordings. With that in mind, this is almost pre-production for Love It to Death, although the band is more inventive here.
"Shoe Salesman" could be Strawberry Alarm Clock, and this clone British pop/punk would've been a nice arena for AC to continue dabbling in, had Ezrin not transformed them into hard rockers. For those not convinced of Cooper's ability to sing after the beautiful adult contemporary songs he composed with Dick Wagner in the late '70s, Easy Action gives evidence that Cooper has more of a voice than he got credit for. "Still No Air" has a sci-fi slant, a slant they could've taken up when the members departed from Cooper and became the Billion Dollar Babies. "Below Your Means" is almost seven minutes of early Who-style musical investigation.
There is that great West Coast Jefferson Airplane sound throughout, some hybrid of L.A./U.K. garage rock and psychedelia. Side two opens with "Return of the Spiders," with upfront fuzz guitar. Dedicated to Gene Vincent, one wonders if this was influenced by David Bowie or if David Bowie influenced it? Both artists emerged around the same time, with Alice Cooper under Frank Zappa's wing, for better or for worse. Their androgynous personas both covered simultaneously in Rolling Stone magazine. "Laughing at Me" is very similar to Bowie's "Man Who Sold the World." There's the cryogenic "Refrigerator Heaven"; a very British pop "Beautiful Flyaway," which is listed as fifth on the album cover, but is actually the fourth track; and "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye," a seven-minute-and-30-second song which clearly sounds like it belongs on Zappa's record label. That this band could run the gamut from Zappa to Bowie, and perhaps inspired both, makes Easy Action a good study and entertaining record

Side 1:
Mr And Misdemeanor (3:10)
Shoe Salesman (2:39)
Still No Air (2:34)
Below Your Means (6:54)
Side 2:
Return Of The Spiders (4:32)
Laughing At Me (2:16)
Refrigerator Heaven (2:01)
Beautiful Flyaway (3:01)
Lay Down And Die, Goodbye (7:36)

LABELS: EXCELLENT
Clean, unmarked labels with moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: VERY GOOD+
Some marks/scuffs are visible but these have little audible significance
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT(+)
Plays extremely well throughout with a deep, rich and warm sound - a touch of low-level surface noted between some of the tracks - nothing really but no other audible distractions of note - great copy
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Apart from a bump to the top spine corner the gatefold is in fine shape and all spine text is clear and bold

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