CLEAN 1968 TANGERINE ZOO Psych Organ + Fuzz Garage

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Grab it and run...1968 first pressing hammond organ/fuzz drenched psychedelic garage

          The TANGERINE ZOO

                                USA -  Mainstream Records - S/6107

Thee oh-so-sought Original 1968 first pressing VINYL pressing of the very first Tangerine Zoo album, one of thee major fuzz-garage collectibles from the USA sixties scene...

Boston psychedelic band the Tangerine Zoo formed in 1967 in nearby Swansea, MA. Guitarist Robert "Benny" Benevides, bassist Tony Taveira, and drummer Donald Smith first collaborated in the Ebb Tides, which the previous year issued "My Baby's Gone" on the Arco label. With the additions of singer/guitarist Wayne Gagnon and keyboardist Ronald Medeiros, the group renamed itself the Flower Pot, abandoning the Ebb Tides' garage rock sound in favor of a more psychedelic approach. In addition to serving as the house band at the local Venus de Milo restaurant, the band also opened for the likes of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Van Morrison, and Deep Purple. Their growing popularity was buoyed by a large fan base in Boston, and in late 1967 signed with the New York City-based Mainstream label. While recording their debut LP, label execs demanded another name change, fearing backlash from the obvious marijuana reference in the Flower Pot moniker; after setting on the Tangerine Zoo, the group released its self-titled debut in early 1968.

Opening the album with an intense cover of THEM's Gloria, reworked into a 6-minute epic, with swirly Hammond and feedback-drenched psychedelic fuzz a-plenty and the band manage to stamp their own style on this classic, in a much more interesting way than renowned cover-butchers Vanilla Fudge, bringing it well and truly into the Summer of Love, albeit 6 months too late. Swathes of the Doors dynamic and aggressive style make this stand out from the standard "Love and Peace" fayre, with tightly controlled breakdowns, instrumental solos from everyone, and noises off creating a far-out, frenzied atmosphere.

If you thought that was good, it's the next track that's the real beginning of the treats; "Trip to the Zoo" is so thinly disguised it's laughable, with stonking basslines creating a jazz-flavour to the heavy freakout music that is to follow, and lyrics like "They pick my brain, brain, brain, brain" leaving you in no doubt what sort of trip they were having - but leaving me a little mystified as to what actually happened at the zoo... This track is pure musical LSD - you don't need to take anything, except this album at ear-splitting volume, the way it was intended to be heard. But if you do, please make sure your head is screwed on tightly.

The musical mind expansion continues with the next track - something that sounds like a glass harmonica provides an eerie opening to an angsty, bluesy tale of woe relating something akin to Stockhalm Syndrome, as the Hammond ripples and sweeps menacingly through something that sounds not unlike the roots of Progressive Rock, reminding particularly of the unsung Scottish band Clouds (formerly 1-2-3), who supported Hendrix on some of his British gigs - clearly Hendrix's booking agents had a taste for this kind of unpredictable, wild and progressive music.

"Nature's Child" is a title that summons up visions of trippy hippy music, but this is again closer to the sound of the Doors, with plenty of Garage energy, dynamic, and more of that angsty melancholy, concerning Barry McGuire's world of destruction. Here the instruments are pushed to recording equipment breaking point, as ice-pick harmonics ring out, threatening to shatter tweeters and ear drums simultaneously.

"The Flight" is more of the same as the above, you'll be glad to hear - great, foot-tapping no-nonsense psychedelic rock with plenty of Hammond organ Swoops, thumping bass lines and feedback-drenched fuzz guitar sizzlings.

"Mommy and Daddy" is rather odd, though, having a kind of Scottish flavoured instrumental following the childish Syd Barrett-inspired vocal section - what's this all about? Just part of a very odd trip, as the music continues into "Symphonic Psyche", a rather manic piece designed for hungry heads - and very catchy. Shoulda been a hit!

The last two tracks, the imaginatively titled "Crystalescent Heaven" and the less imaginatively titled "One More Heartache" are a slower, more mellow number and a manic, uptempo rocker resepctively, that don't add anything more musically, but make a fine ending to a very rounded and very capable debut album which really should command a lot more recognition than it ever got, especially when you put them up against some of the other stuff that caught on as 'classic' sixties rock...uh.

01 - Gloria
02 - Trip To The Zoo
03 - Please Don't Set Me Free
04 - Nature's Child
05 - The Flight
06 - Mommy And Daddy
07 - Symphonic Psyche
08 - Crystalescent Heaven
09 - One More Heartache

CONDITION: The cover is "EX" (excellent), there is a little wear started at top of spine but not split anywhere, all seams are solid, otherwise, yeah, this is a collection keeper and harder to get these days than 'Tio Pepe's HOT ICE congelada picante' which in English is a brand of squeeze and eat hot-spicy frozen flavored ice that vanished without a trace....

The vinyl is in the neighborhood of "EX" (excellent), a coule minor superficial scuff lines, this baby plays like a jewell...clean and tastey !!!

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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