BLOSSOM TOES - WE ARE EVER SO CLEAN - 1967 German Polydor

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65

This is the first BLOSSOM TOES LP, but pressed on the German Polydor label not the original UK Marmalade label. A real nice flower psych album that was prevalent for the times in England.

The BLOSSOM TOES Story:

Brian Godding and Brian Belshaw formed a band called the "Gravediggers" in the UK. They fumbled their way through the "Shadow's" and "Beatles" cover songs playing pubs, clubs and work dance's. They got pretty good and had a bit of a fan following, so they changed their name to "The Ingoes" after a "Chuck Berry" song. They decided to get a manager and tried out for Georgio Golmelsky. He was pretty big at the time and he told them to take a hike. They moved on to Germany and played some venues with hostel English/German crowds. But, they got better as a band and went back to the UK and Georgio one more time. This time he took pity on them, signed them and handed them off as second billing to some famous blues musicians. But, nothing panned out so Georgio farmed them off to France were they enjoyed some success. Finally back in England they were able to record an album, but Georgio insisted on new tunes for the "flower power" generation. The band reluctantly obliged as they were more of a rocking blues band by this time. The first album called “We Are Ever So Clean” is full of quirky sounds and noises to go along with the mostly flower pop songs. A bit like "The Who's - Sell Out" album and the antics of "July". They were still known as "The Ingoes", so Georgio had his executives rename the band "Blossom Toes" for "flower power" effect. The album has its charm, but the band was very disappointed. They never played any songs from that album "live" and instead alleviated their anger over the recording by jamming with duel lead guitars. Hey! The song writing opened up and they got some real serious heavy sounds from their "self therapy". A second album was recorded (If Only For A moment) that showed "Blossom Toes" as a real player amongst the "heavies" with much more guitar. Their live shows got a big boost from (then unknown) David Jacobson who later went on to be part of the sound behind "Genesis". Record sales were minimal and money was.......well....there was no money. They were on the road constantly traveling from one venue to another when one night there was a serious accident. Nobody was hurt too badly, but the band decided that it just wasn't worth it and broke up. A couple of years later (1971) they reformed and started recording another album. They did not have a name as yet, but after a particularly bad recording session and the engineers gone, they found a tape of that session labeled "Brian & Brian Blunder Tape". (BB Blunder) They liked the name and stuck with it. The cover of this album depicts the first "Blossom Toes" album in the trash and like the second album, the guitar jams really come out on this one, effectively removing the whimsical memories of their forced "flowered" debut. All albums are recommended.

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