MONO 1966 CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND No Way Out PSYCH Garage

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    ORIGINAL 1966 MONO FUZZ PUNK SNARL !                                 

 THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND

                    No Way Out

\                              USA - TOWER RECORDS - T- 5096 MONAURAL

=> > Original 1967 first pressing vinyl on the famously collected TOWER Records label....the first of 3 great albums released by the legendary CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND...in glorious MONO...the mono release with the punchy big beat boost, way different from the stereo issue...

Released in September of 1967, No Way Out came at the end of the band's first 15 months of existence, a period that encompassed the recording and release of four singles of generally extraordinary quality, and as good as anything heard from any garage band anywhere during that period. "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" and "No Way Out," are the core of an immensely powerful LP. Also highlighted are the group's nicely cranked-up "Come On" (obviously influenced by the Rolling Stones' debut single, which was, itself, a good trick, since the latter had never seen a U.S. release in any form) and the psychedelic Bo Diddley-based "Gone and Passes By". The other six tracks are highs as wellm including "Let's Talk About Girls," "In the Midnight Hour," and "Hot Dusty Road," ...then the band submerge into psychedelia in "Expo 2000" and "Dark Side of the Mushroom," and finally, the bizarre "Gossamer Wings," a psychedelic digression that used the band's basic track from the 1966 single B-side "Loose Lip Sync Ship" as its jumping-off point. All of that said, No Way Out is still an extremely impressive and enduring album that nicely straddles the garage punk and psychedelic genres; the Watchband's "Come On" still gets this reviewer's pulse bouncing to the Watchband's heated beat, and it and the other cuts are still highly potent, slashing, exciting, clever pieces of music. "Gone and Passes By" and "No Way Out" are sharp works of psychedelic punk music, the former mixing sitar music with a shimmering Bo Diddley beat to superbly seductive effect, while the latter is built on a twisting, jagged blues- and raga-based lead guitar line that recalls the late-1966 vintage Jefferson Airplane's work. And "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" is a stirring, even threatening anthem to youthful defiance. Of the rest, "Let's Talk About Girls" is still a very good track and a killer opener for the album, "In the Midnight Hour" and "Hot Dusty Road" are not too far behind. "Dark Side of the Mushroom" and "Expo 2000" are very effective slices of psych. So the record is an essential '60s album in any collection.

MONO Tower Records DT 5096, MATRIX NUMBER: 

A: TOWER- T-1-5096 (S-1598)

B: TOWER- T-2-5096 (S-1610)

1. Let's Talk About Girls 2:43
2. In the Midnight Hour 4:26
3. Come On 1:48
4. Dark Side of the Mushroom 2:37
5. Hot Dusty Roads 2:23
6. Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In) 2:23
7. Gone a Passes By 3:12
8. No Way Out 2:21
9. Expo 2000 2:39
10. Gossamer Wings 3:29

CONDITION: The cover: the front VG+ has some stray light areas of shelf lring wear; lightly around the sides, and left bottom corner; the spine has light rub wear and there a razor mark down the front middle. The back cover is clean. No seam splits, no writing. The 43 year old cover still looks collectible with bright colors.

The vinyl the original bright shiny luster is still on both sides. visual VG++ having only a few minor looking hairlines, nothing much visual. With just a little light surface here or there, expect excellent loud and vibrant clear playback 

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record