CARAVAN Caravan LP VERVE FORECAST 1969 UK orig MONO VLP6011 Prog Rock CANTERBURY

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 RICHARD COUGHLAN, PYE HASTINGS, DAVID SINCLAIR, RICHARD SINCLAIR

Musically inventive progressive rock band that came out of the Canterbury scene 

with a gift for melody as well as imaginative improvisation, 

Caravan were one of the more formidable progressive rock acts to come out of England in the 1960s,

 though they were never much more than a very successful cult band at home, 

and, apart from a brief moment in 1975, barely a cult band anywhere else in the world

"CARAVAN"

Produced by TONY COX

Recorded at Advision Studios, London, October 1968

1969     LP     VERVE FORECAST RECORDS      VLP 6011  MONO

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING    'PILLAR' SLEEVE

Released in a laminated cover (on front) with flipback (on rear)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  VERVE FORECAST -  GREEN/BROWNISH LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover (rear only): VLP 6011     

Catalog on labels: VLP. 6011 (VLP.6011A / VLP.6011B) 

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): VLP 6011 A-1

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): VLP 6011 B-1

On labels: upper rim text reads "M.G.M. Records Ltd.   Made in Gt. Britain"

Made under licence from Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Inc., owners of the trade mark 'Verve'

Sold in U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists 

?1969 on both labels (on the labels the release year appears at 9 o'clock)

Rights Society: Robbins Music Corp. Ltd

On Back Sleeve: Also Available in Stereo No. SVLP 6011

All songs written by: Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair and Sinclair 

'Where but for Caravan would I' written with further assistance from Brian Hopper

MGM Records Limited, London England 

Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patent No. 943.895 S/VLP 6011 

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: PLACE OF MY OWN - RIDE - POLICEMAN

LOVE SONG WITH FLUTE - CECIL ROOM

Side B: MAGIC MAN - GRANDMA'S LAWN

WHERE BUT FOR CARAVAN WOULD I

  grading

RECORD SIDE A:

Track 1: VG(+) (but on my turntable 1 skip) 

Track  2 - 3: STRONG VG+

Track  4: VG (Heavy line with many scratches throughout)

Track  5: VG(+) (scratches at the start__the end of the heavy line from track 4)

RECORD SIDE B:

Track  1: NEAR EX

Track  2: VG+ (some light noise)

Track 3: VG+ to NEAR EX, BUT, on my stereo equipment, the arm of my turntable 

is blocked/stands still nearby the middle of the track, 

so you have to use a very light pick up/needle to pass through

SLEEVE VG(+) (please, see pictures and read above description)

For their first album, Caravan was surprisingly strong. 

While steeped in the same British psychedelia that informed bands such as Love Children, 

Pink Floyd, and Tomorrow, Caravan relates a freedom of spirit and mischief 

along the lines of Giles, Giles & Fripp or Gong. The band's roots can be traced to a 

British blue-eyed soul combo called the Wilde Flowers. Among the luminaries to have passed 

through this Caravan precursor were Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, and Hugh Hopper 

and Brian Hopper (pre-Soft Machine, naturally). By the spring of 1968, Caravan had settled 

nicely into a quartet consisting of Pye Hastings (guitar/bass/vocals), 

Richard Coughlan (drums), David Sinclair (organ/vocals), and Richard Sinclair (bass/guitar/vocals). 

Inspired by the notoriety and acclaim that Soft Machine encountered 

during the burgeoning days of London's underground scene, 

Caravan began a residency at the Middle Earth club...(AllMusic)