JAMESON Color Him In 1967 ORIG GARAGE PSYCH LP Boettcher Bonniwell SHRINK? HEAR

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JAMESON "COLOR HIM IN" LP

ORIGINAL 1967 white label pr0m0 LP ON THE US VERVE LABEL, STEREO V-5015

COVER IN EXCELLENT shape - it's still in shrinkwrap but I don't think it's the original shrinkwrap

VINYL plays EXCELLENT

"Jameson is startling!  Jameson is impatient.  He is angry."  So reads the liner notes on the back of his 1967 LP Color Him In.  He's also an incomplete paint by numbers kit, and surprise, his eye is all one color and the bridge of his nose should be the same tone as his hair, at least according to the numbers assigned to them.  Don't worry - I didn't actually PAINT on this album cover, but something tells me based on the seemingly randomly-assigned numerical directions, he'd probably come out looking more fake than Melissa Rivers.  And if you're really curious, he's complete (albeit in black and white) twice on the back cover, so you can see for yourself that he really DOES have a left side of his face.  And he's got some songs too.  Some introspective singer/songwriter folky pop stuff, and some groovy swinging sunshine pop stuff that's bathed in luxurious pillows of sound, thanks to wunderkind producer Curt Boettcher.  And at times, I swear to God the liner notes didn't lie, he really DOES sound angry, especially on the Music Machine soundalike "The New Age," with its fast galloping tempo and grunting snotty dead-ringer-for-Sean-Bonniwell vocals.  Play this one for your favorite Music Machine fan (the one still wearing a single black glove even in July) and I betcha even HE'LL think you picked up one of Sean's old studio tapes from the Bonniwell Family Annual Garage Sale. 

 "Jameson wants to destroy everything and build a beautiful, shiny world on the rubble."  That may be true, but don't mess with his affection or there'll be hell to pay, because even the world's biggest hippie anarchist doesn't like getting f**ed with in the bedroom, as evidenced on the bitter breakup nugget "Who's Putting Who On"... 

"Hey babe, here's the key back to your front door,

And girl, I won't be stopping by like I did before.

And I hope you know who's been putting who on."

Harsh stuff from the man with the Black Velvet Elvis face.  If his heart were part of the kit, it'd be painted solid black (for evil).  And yet ol' Curt and the boys give his venemous brushoff a rather trippy Maharashi magic carpet vibe, complete with swirly Middle Eastern breaks and something that sounds exactly like those weird seagull noises from the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows."  Which would have probably sounded more at home on the flower power title track, which postulates that "your mind has windows and your soul has a door."  But that one gets the Association/Sagittarius/Millennium treatment, all bouncy sunshine pop beats and chirping "ba ba ba" backing vocals.  The music is, without question, top-shelf late 60's pop psych, but you can't help thinking there's maybe a disconnect between Jameson's lyrics and Curt's production.  "My music is where I have been, what I have seen, how I feel and who I am," Jameson writes on the back cover, presumably between bong hits.  That's four separate colors, if you're keeping score at home.  As for me, you can just color me impressed. 

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