EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - WASA WASA 1st UK Press 1969 Harvest Pink Floyd

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	$		51

EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND -

WASA WASA

HARVEST

 SHVL 757

1st UK Press 1969

Machined matrices A-1 B-1.

A fantastic ultra heavy vinyl and even despite a couple of light hairlines this plays phenomenally. The ultra high groove walls ensure the very best audio experience possible for this album. The vinyl retains its beautiful gloss and has probably not been played very much. Of course NO skips, jumps, crackle etc.

The Edgar Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, is an English, psychedelic, progressive rock group.

The band started their career as a blues group under the name of The Edgar Broughton Blues Band, playing to a dedicated but limited following in the region around their hometown of Warwick. However, when the band began to lean towards the emerging psychedelic movement, dropping the 'Blues' from their name as well as their music, Victor Unitt left.

In 1968, the Broughtons moved to Notting Hill Gate, London, seeking a recording contract and a wider audience, and were picked up by Blackhill Enterprises. Blackhill landed them their first record deal, on EMI's progressive rock label Harvest Records, in December 1968. Their first single was "Evil"/"Death of an Electric Citizen", released in June 1969, which was also the first single released by Harvest!

The first single was followed by the Broughtons' first album, Wasa Wasa, and after a series of free concerts, many performed on the back of trucks and in the face of police harassment, the Broughtons entered into an attempt to capture their ferocious live sound on record by organising a performance at Abbey Road on 9 December 1969. Only one track was released at the time: a rendition of "Out, Demons Out!", an adaptation of The Fugs' song "Exorcising The Demons Out Of The Pentagon", which had become the band's set-closer and anthem. The rest of the recording was lost until its rediscovery and release in a remixed form in 2004 as Keep Them Freaks a Rollin': Live at Abbey Road 1969.

Wasa Wasa is the debut album by progressive rock band, Edgar Broughton Band. The album was originally released as "Harvest SHVL 757" in July 1969 and was produced by Peter Jenner (No EMI logo) was featured on the labels only on the first issues later pressings feature EMI!. The 2004 CD reissue contained 5 previousy unreleased bonus tracks, 4 of them being demos recorded by the band when they were a blues outfit called "The Edgar Broughton Blues Band". These tracks feature guitarist Victor Unitt, who left the band when they started to go into progressive rock, stating the members of the band to be "sell-outs". The last bonus track being a jamming session which was recorded on 21 January 1969, which was discovered when remastering the album.

Vinyl: VG+ to EX. A smashing ultra heavy first press vinyl with a few of wispy shallow hairlines. This is a well looked after copy of this now classic album. The groove walls on these first Harvest pressings are extremely high and it sounds!! The audio is splendid and the stereo separation supreme!! Of course NO jumps, sticks or skips. Just some light static on the deadwax in between tracks.

Gatefold sleeve: EX.  A great looking laminated gatefold sleeve which has a fully readable spine and straight crisp edges.Just a small mark on the front cover. there is no writing or smudging, the inside gatefold is totally unmarked. This is a very hard find these days and I hadn't seen this LP for many years until I came across this great copy. This also has the original advertising inner sleeve with pictures of albums y e.g. Quatermass, Syd Barrett, Bakerloo, Forest, deep purple etc. This sleeve is a rare item in its own right these days.

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