RARE 1970 ORIG = THE PURPLE IMAGE = HEAVY HENDRIX STOOGES FUNK PSYCH BLASTER LP
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RARE 1970 HEAVY PSYCH/FUNK ORIGINAL!
Promotional Copy
THE PURPLE IMAGE
\ USA - MAP CITY - 3015 (PROMO)
EXCEEDINGLY RARE advanced release promotional
...file this rarity next to the likes of BLACK MERDA, NEXT MORNING and early Funkadelic ....for here is....thee Original 1970 first pressing of the PURPLE IMAGE and all that they've in store for you....
Released in 1970 on the obscure Map City label, founded by former Kama Sutra artists and song writer, the ex-Tradewinds Pete Anders and Vincent Poncia, Cleveland-based Purple Image sadly managed only this lone effort. It’s clever use of fuzz and wahwah guitar demonstrates a clear Hendrix influence, as does the second side’s final track, Marching To A Different Drummer, a 15-minute guitar jam extravaganza. The overall sound is tight and driving, making for a truly excellent album which also features some really nice cover art. Continuing on this funk hunt- here's the sole release and 1970 debut of Cleveland . A lot has been made about the super-heavy psych-funk Purple Image crew, working less within the more dominant (for black artists) soul idiom of the time, but that only serves to obscure just how funky this album is. It's as heavy as Jimi Hendrix a la "Machine Gun" or The Stooges on Fun House. And like on those examples, even at the height of heaviness, it's not just heavy metal excess- it's hard and mean and direct, and still ultimately groove-based. Truly a Black Rock Beast, is Purple Image.The highest highlight for me is the opener, "Living in the Ghetto", a rip-roaring series of ghetto tableau ("Mama's in the kitchen cookin' midnight supper!"), punctuated by utterly wicked electric guitar "Machine Gun"-isms. You might actually hear specific licks swiped from "Machine Gun", a worthy source to quote if ever there was one, and it enriches the track's dialogue between Black Music and Heavy Metal. (Come to think of it, The Stooges said they were cribbing "Machine Gun" when they wrote "Dirt" in this same year, to continue the Fun House comparisons.)
The other enormous highlight of the record is a monstrous version of Bob Craig's "Marching to a Different Drummer". A thrashing, relentless, fifteen-and-a-half minute onslaught that starts out as a funky singalong, then mutates into a psych-rock apocalypse, complete with a free-wailing sax to drive the guitars into chaos, and a crunchy harmonica infusion near the end.
Meltdown with this bad puppy 1. Living In The Ghetto
2. Why
3. Lady
4. We Got To Pull Together
5. What You Do To Me
6. Marching To A Different Drummer
CONDITION: The Cover: solid and colorful ....has a promo stamp at top right corner, the front cover is rated "EX" (excellent) ...while the back cover is clean, rate it VG+ for three tape pulls at the edges of bottom, far left and right; outside edges only = so no problem with visuals which are clean ... the cover has no bends, no writing, no split seams ...just light past visual use which was careful over the past 43 years...
The Vinyl: highly shining over both sides, rated collectibly near "EX" (excellent) having only a few minor inner sleeve like paper scuffs...plays fantastic in mint audio zones ...both MAP CITY labels ar clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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