High Tide - Sea Shanties LP Timeless 731 (500 copies only) Coloured Vinyl MINT
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Condition: Mint condition - rarely played. Perfect playback - no hiss or clicks. I have all manner of versions of this classic LP, including an original from 1969 but still tend to buy various re-releases. However, as this version includes an additional track, 'Dilemma', (available on other High Tide releases inc. CDs) the running order doesn't feel quite right to me hence deciding to sell.
Coloured vinyl - see photos.
An AllMusic retrospective stated "On Sea Shanties, there's nothing fey and flowery in Hill's bleak lyrics or his doomy Jim Morrison-like delivery, and psychedelia's melodic whimsy is supplanted by a physicality more in line with the visceral heft of metal progenitors...High Tide weren't a power trio, though, and it was the interplay of Hill's guitar with Simon House's violin that created the band's unique signature. Showing that rock needn't be a marginal adornment, House whips up an aggressive edge that rivals the guitar... High Tide had the muscularity of a no-nonsense proto-metal band, but they also ventured into prog territory with changing time signatures and tempos, soft-hard dynamics, multi-part arrangements, and even some ornate faux-Baroque interludes... Far from the collection of nautical ditties its name suggests, Sea Shanties is an overlooked gem encapsulating the shifting musical currents in late-'60s British rock."
180-gram vinyl heavy carton gatefold sleeve.
High Tide were part of the wave of 'progressive underground' bands which grew up in Britain in the late sixties. Formed in Ladbroke Grove, London in 1969, the band featured the intense guitar playing of TONY HILL (ex MISUNDERSTOOD), the Violin and Keyboard skills of SIMON HOUSE (later to join the THIRD EAR BAND and then HAWKWIND), bassist PETE PAVLI and drummer ROGER HADDEN. Signing to LIBERTY RECORDS soon after formation, the band recorded SEA SHANTIES at Olympic studios, an album featuring some of the heaviest gothic rock recorded at that time.
This album contains the non-LP track DILEMMA
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