JACKIE LOMAX "SOUR MILK SEA"+"THE EAGLE LAUGHS AT YOU" 1968 APPLE 1802 VG OOP 7"

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THREE YEARS AGO I LOST ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS TO CANCER, HE WAS A COOL MUSICIAN A DRUMMER BY TRADE, ORIGINALLY FROM SEATTLE, BUT RELOCATED TO L.A. IN 1985, HE AMASSED A VERY LARGE MUSIC COLLECTION, AND HAD KILLER TASTE FOR ROCK & ROLL, SADLY I AM SELLING OFF A LOT OF HIS COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF HIS WIDOW TO HELP PAY OFF DEBTS INCLUDING HOSPITAL BILLS, TAXES AND STORAGE UNIT FEES. I AM NOT TAKING ANYTHING FOR THIS SERVICE, DOING IT FOR MY FRIEND (MISS YOU DAVE!). THIS ITEM IS FROM HIS COLLECTION.

THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING.

THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED.

ARTIST: JACKIE LOMAX

TRACK LISTING: “SOUR MILK SEA” (3:54) b/w “THE EAGLE LAUGHS AT YOU” (2:27)

A

Sour Milk Sea

3:54

B

The Eagle Laughs At You

2:27

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Apple Records, Inc.

Credits

• Producer – George Harrison
  

LABEL: APPLE RECORDS

CAT.#: 1802

YEAR: 1968

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN VG CONDITION. NICE LUSTER TO THE VINYL. NO LINES, SCRATCHES, BLEMS, DINGS ETC. BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. THERE'S SOME VERY VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND SOUND ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES, BUT THE SONGS ON BOTH SIDES PLAY VERY CLEAN. THERE IS A SCRATCH IN THE INNER GROOVE ON THE “A” SIDE, ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LABLE, IT IS IN A SPOT AFTER THE SONG IS FINISHED PLAYING, MORE COSMETIC THAN ANYTHING ELSE. (SEE THE BAD PHOTO)

RECORD SLEEVE: THE SLEEVE IS A GENERIC WHITE PAPER SLEEVE.

OTHER INFO: THIS RECORD IS OUT OF PRINT. PRODUCED BY GEORGE HARRISON.  "A" SIDE FEATURES ALL THE BEATLES EXCEPT JOHN. ALSO FEATURES ERIC CLAPTON ON THE "A" SIDE.

ARTIST & RELEASE INFO:

John Richard Lomax (10 May 1944 – 15 September 2013) was an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his association with George Harrison, who produced Lomax's recordings for the Beatles' Apple record label in the late 1960s.

John Richard Lomax was born in 1944 in Wallasey, Cheshire.He was a member of Dee and the Dynamites, The Undertakers, The Lomax Alliance, Heavy Jelly and Badger. He worked with The Tea Bags, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Leon Russell and Nicky Hopkins.

Career

1962–1970

In January 1962, Jackie Lomax left Dee and the Dynamites to join the Merseybeat band The Undertakers.[2] They followed The Beatles' route through local venues before setting out for Hamburg, Germany, and securing a recording contract. They signed with Pye Records and released four singles,but they only managed one week on the UK Singles Chart with "Just a Little Bit" (#49 in 1964).In 1965 they decided to try their luck in the United States.

Lomax spent two years in the US with The Undertakers and a couple of other groups. In 1967, Brian Epstein took his latest line-up, The Lomax Alliance, back to the UK to showcase them at London's Saville Theatre. He arranged for a single and an album to be recorded, and they signed to CBS before Epstein's death.During that period, CBS released two Lomax Alliance singles and one Jackie Lomax solo single. More than enough tracks for an album were recorded but it was never released.

After Epstein's death, The Beatles' new record label, Apple Records, took over responsibility for Lomax's recording career, and George Harrison became involved in production. Despite having three-quarters of The Beatles on the record, plus Eric Clapton and Nicky Hopkins, Lomax's 1968 debut single on Apple, the Harrison-penned "Sour Milk Sea", backed with "The Eagle Laughs at You" written by Lomax, made little commercial impression. Lomax and Harrison recorded the remainder of the Is This What You Want? album in Los Angeles, with Hal Blaine and other members of the Wrecking Crew; but as with the concurrent single, the Lomax-produced "New Day", success remained elusive when the album was released in early 1969. A final Apple single followed, a cover version of "How the Web Was Woven" featuring Leon Russell. By 1970, The Beatles' breakup left the remaining Apple Records artists in limbo.

"Sour Milk Sea" is a song by English rock singer Jackie Lomax that was released as his debut single on the Beatles' Apple record label in August 1968. It was written by George Harrison during the Beatles' stay in Rishikesh, India, and given to Lomax to help launch Apple Records. The recording is a rarity among non-Beatles songs since it features three members of the band – Harrison, who also produced the track, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. Performed in the hard rock style, the song also includes musical contributions from Eric Clapton and session pianist Nicky Hopkins, and was the first of many Harrison productions for artists signed to the Beatles' record label.

Harrison wrote "Sour Milk Sea" to promote Transcendental Meditation, which the Beatles had been studying in Rishikesh with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In the lyrics, Harrison espouses meditation as a remedy for worldly cares. The group recorded a demo of the song while considering material for their 1968 double album, The Beatles (also known as the White Album). On release, Lomax's single was overshadowed in Apple's "Our First Four" promotional campaign by the Beatles' "Hey Jude" and Mary Hopkin's "Those Were the Days"; it enjoyed only minor success internationally, becoming a top 30 hit in Canada. Together with its B-side, the Lomax-written "The Eagle Laughs at You", the song was included on the singer's only Apple album, Is This What You Want?, released in March 1969.

"Sour Milk Sea" received favourable reviews in 1968 and has continued to invite praise from music critics, particularly for the energetic quality of the performance. Several writers consider that the song deserved to be a hit for Lomax and that, had the Beatles retained it for the White Album, it would have been among the best songs on the album. The track also appears on the 2010 multi-artist compilation Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records.

"Sour Milk Sea" was one of several songs that George Harrison wrote while staying at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, India, from February to April 1968. Having first visited India in September 1966, following the Beatles' final concert tour,Harrison became enamoured of the teachings of the Maharishiand led his Beatles bandmates to Rishikesh to study Transcendental Meditation two years later. With Life magazine labelling 1968 "the Year of the Guru", the Beatles' visit generated wide interest in Transcendental Meditation and Eastern spirituality generally, among Western youth. Author Simon Leng writes that with "Sour Milk Sea", Harrison adopted "the role of advertising executive" to further promote meditation.Leng views it as a follow-up to "Within You Without You", in which Harrison had first channelled the teachings of the Hindu Vedas into a song.

In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison says that "Sour Milk Sea" espouses meditation as a means to improve the quality of one's life, as well as advocating a proactive approach when faced with difficulty. He says he named the composition after a picture titled Kalladadi Samudra, which reflects the theme of Vishvasara Tantra in sacred Hindu texts, particularly regarding "the geological theory of the evolution of organic life on earth". Singer Jackie Lomax, whose debut solo album Harrison had agreed to produce before the Beatles departed for India, said that the Sour Milk Sea symbolises "a fallow period" during each of the Earth's 26,000-year evolutionary cycles, before the planet begins its process of regeneration.

As with the other songs he wrote in Rishikesh, "Sour Milk Sea" marked the start of Harrison's return to the guitar as his main instrument, coinciding with a gradual relinquishing of his attempts to master the Indian sitar.In a September 1968 interview, he recalled that he wrote the music "in ten minutes" since he was without a guitar at the time and had to borrow John Lennon's. He also said that, although it was not until June that he decided to forgo Indian classical music and fully re-engage with rock music, "[Even when] I was in India, I always imagined the song as rock 'n' roll."

Recording

With Harrison as his producer, Lomax recorded "Sour Milk Sea" for release as a single.The sessions for the song began at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London on 24 June 1968,before moving to Trident Studios,to use that facility's superior, eight-track recording equipment.Speaking to Melody Maker in September, Harrison described the recording as a "glorified jam session".The line-up consisted of Lomax on vocals, Harrison and Eric Clapton on guitars, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Paul McCartney on bass, and Ringo Starr on drums. McCartney was absent from the initial session, however,only returning on 25 June from an Apple-related business trip to California. While Apple projects typically featured one member of the Beatles, "Sour Milk Sea" is the only track where more than two members of the band appeared on another artist's recording.

Clapton's electric guitar playing gave the song a riff-based quality that was absent from the Beatles' version.Lomax later said that he thought the track "worked as an instrumental", and he recalled his nervousness when it came to overdubbing the vocal part, with "three Beatles in the control room watching me". In addition to supplying acoustic rhythm guitar on the song,Harrison played an electric guitar solo, which appears shortly after the two-minute mark on the recording,following Clapton's lead guitar break.Hammond organ was also added over this instrumental passage,although the part is uncredited. Recording was completed on 26 June Like Clapton and Hopkins,Lomax went on to contribute to the sessions for The Beatles, singing backing vocals on "Dear Prudence".

"The Eagle Laughs at You"

For the single's B-side, Lomax recorded his composition "The Eagle Laughs at You".Produced by Harrison, the song was also recorded between 24 and 26 June. According to Apple Records historian Andy Davis, the musicians on the track comprised an "ad hoc power trio" of Lomax on bass and rhythm guitar, Harrison on lead guitar and "a couple of overdubs", and drummer Tony Newman from Sounds Incorporated.Lomax recalled that he and Harrison overdubbed a cornet part (played by a studio cleaner) and then manipulated the recording to make it sound like the call of an elephant.

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