E-SUNSHINE PROGRESSIVE RARITIES!

In the next few weeks I’ll put on auction more than 200 nice and most rare Progressive LP’s. Have a look, it is worthwhile! Most of my vinyl comes from my own collection and is in great, collectible condition. This collection contains many rare German Kraut, progressive-psych folk, early electronic and psychedelic records from the period 1967 to 1977. All records are original first press, IF NOT I clearly mention it. I have chosen not to spend too much time in describing how great these records all are, i hope true collector's know how great these records are....

Band Record: I Drive – I Drive (extreme rare kraut record of UK band, their only LP, a master piece!!)

Label matrix: Metronome MLP 15.420

Country year: Germany 1972

Condition Record/Sleeve: VG+/EX

Extra info: (thanks to the I Drive Website) I Drive were (was) one of the last bands (at that time still called "Some Other Guys") to leave their Manchester (Salford / Altringham) home town and head for Germany in the late sixties (Valentines Day 1967) doing the "so called" Starclub scene, although our "Star Club" was the "Haus der Musik" in Wuppertal-Elberfeld where we proceeded to have a great time (noch ein Bier Bitte!!!) even though we didn't speak a word of german. From then on, things just kept getting better and better (apart from the bloody van breaking down on the way to Hannover, which was the real reason that we stayed in Germany) and finally, after doing the American Army Club scene for a while (during which time, Eric the Bass player met the girl of his dreams and decided to quit the band!), where we made a good name for ourselves, we decided to give the German Club scene a serious try and immediately had good reactions from places like the "Blow Up" in Munich, "Gruenspan" in Hamburg and the "P.N Club" in Munich where we played alongside groups like "The Remo Four" "Nectar" "Nazareth" and "The Skorpions" (later Scorpions). Without really knowing how or why, we slowly but surely became a part of the German "Progressive Rock scene" (although we never really did lose the "soulful touch") playing at all kinds of Gigs and Open Air festivals alongside people like "Klaus Doldinger" Brian Auger's Night train" "Tony Sheridan" "Amon Duul", "Can", "Phallus Dei", "Golden Earring"," Ihre Kinder"," Titanic"," Wind"," Twenty Sixty six", "Geronimo" and many many others. Apart from doing countless numbers of "one night stands" throughout Europe, we also did a large amount of Monthly Gigs in places like: Muelltonne (Hannover), Gruenspan (Hamburg), Colosseum (Regensburg), P.N. Club (Munich), Blow Up (Munich), Expresso (Straubing), Maxime's (Schweinfurt), Camera (Fuerth), K52 (Frankfurt) and many other Clubs and Dance Halls in places like:, Kaiserslautern Hof, Kitzingen, Mannheim, Zweibruecken etc. These "long term gigs" were the one's which gave us a really large Fan following. It was strange "but nice" to see that people were travelling from city to city to see us play . In 1971 (after losing our singer "Geff Harrison to Twenty Sixty Six) we recorded an LP in the Bavaria Tonstudios in Munich which was then released in 1972 by the Hamburg record Company "Metronome" under the title of "I Drive". This was to remain our only recording with this group (apart from a private pressing of a song called Classic Rigby), although Cheese & myself did do a couple of singles in Spain in 1973, and Cheese later went on to do quite a lot of recording with the Group "Helter Skelter" and then even later with his present project "Russ'n'Cheese". The last Gig which we played with the original members of "I DRIVE" (Geff came back for a brief stay) was in Munich in the "Crash" in the Lindwurmstrasse. We played the Gig, drank a couple of beer's too many, had an argument and split !!. and that was it !!!. Everyone went their own way, Dave to Hamburg, John to Kiel, Geff to Mannheim and Cheese and myself went to Regensburg where we hung around for a while before moving on to Spain where we played for a German pop Singer "Thomas Hock" who had just had a big hit with the Spanish version of "The Train to Nowhere" and desperately needed some musicians to back him up on tour.

All records will be carefully packed by me and I do not charge handling. Shipping will take place with air/priority mail or standard mail. Packages above 2kg will be shipped with TNT Global Express.

I accept cash in Euro’s and in U.K Pounds sterling. Within the EU I prefer (free) IBAN transactions to my bank account. I have U.K Bank as well, for digital banking transactions within the U.K. Paypal transaction on request, please contact me before the auction closes.

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