HORSLIPS happy to meet UK OATS LP octagonal sleeve 1972

	£		26
	$		34

Artist: HORSLIPS

Title: HAPPY TO MEET SORRY TO PART

Format: stereo LP

Label: OATS, UK (MOO 3)

Year: 1972

Style: progressive rock, folk rock, traditional Irish

Info: Rare original UK pressing LP in unusual octagonal die-cut booklet sleeve.

The actual vinyl has been stored separately of the sleeve in a plain paper sleeve for extra protection.

Has original issue matrix numbers of MOO 3A-2E and MOO 3B-3E.

"At one point in the mid-'70s, Horslips seemed poised to become Ireland's answer to Steeleye Span. But they also had a shot at being the next Jethro Tull (only a better hard rock outfit), or maybe Genesis, or even Yes in their folkier moments. Those events never quite happened, but Horslips released half a dozen superb albums along the way, becoming Ireland's most acclaimed folk-rock and progressive band.


Horslips were founded in Dublin during 1970 as a quintet playing a brand of folk-based rock music whose only parallel could be found in the early work of Fairport Convention, who themselves had only been together for two or three years. Where Fairport freely mixed British and American folk and folk-rock traditions, however, Horslips drew on their distinctly Irish roots, and were capable of playing straight folk material when the moment called for it, but weren't afraid to turn up loud and hard, in the best art rock style, on the right songs.


Depending on the moment, Barry Devlin (bass, vocals), John Fean (lead guitar, vocals) Eamonn Carr (drums, vocals), Charles O'Connor (violin, mandolin, vocals), and Jim Lockhart (flute, tin whistle, keyboards, vocals) sounded a bit like either Genesis or Jethro Tull, and actually had stronger original material to draw from than Tull did. Fean, in particular, was equally good at playing soft folk-like passages and loud, ringing electric runs on his instrument, and could easily have held his own in a guitar duel with Martin Barre or Steve Howe, among others. But where Tull (after their first album) became exclusively a vehicle for Ian Anderson's wildman flute antics and complex, pretentious, satiric, and scatological lyrical conceits, Horslips, until their final years, had ample room for each player to show what he did best, and no single member dominated the group. They spent three years gigging constantly in Dublin, tightening and honing their sound to a fine point, and formed their own record company, OATS, to produce and release their debut album, Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part, in 1973.


That first album, with its mixture of traditional Irish folk instruments and a hard art rock sound recalling the sounds of Genesis from Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot, outsold the work of many established acts in Ireland, and led to a distribution deal with RCA and tours of England and Continental Europe..."

13 tracks:-

-side 1:
HAPPY TO MEET
HALL OF MIRRORS
THE CLERGY'S LAMENTATION
AN BRATACH BAN
THE SHAMROCK SHORE
FLOWER AMANG THEM ALL
BIM ISTIGH AT OL

-side 2:
FURNITURE
ACE AND DEUCE
DANCE TO YER DADDY
SCALLOWAY RIPOFF
THE MUSICAL PRIEST
SORRY TO PART

Vinyl in very good+ condition with some mild surface wear and light scuffs in parts, but plays great with just occasional background crackles which can only be heard in between tracks and in the quiet sections.
Labels are clean and i can't see any spindle marks.
Sleeve in very good++/excellent- condition and still looks tidy with just a bit of light/mild wear on the edges and some light surface/rub wear on the pages. Booklet is intact with all pages present and the two staples still in place. Very hard to find this sleeve in decent condition like this!

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