Stalk-Forrest Group St. Cecilia The California Album Vinyl LP never played

$

37

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White Soft Underbelly, Blue Oyster Cult 1. Gil Blanco County 2. Ragamuffin' Dumplin 3. Bonomo's Turkish Taffy 4. Arthur Comics 5. Curse Of The Hidden Mirrors 6. What Is Quicksand 7. St. Cecilia 8. Donovan's Monkey 9. I'm On The Lamb, But I Ain't No Sheep 10. A Fact About Sneakers Pretty much in the vein of the band's former incarnation (White Soft Underbelly), this archived album of the Stalk-Forrest Group shows the psychedelic and obscure embryo of Blue Öyster Cult, in another of their primitive shapes. Minus bassist Andrew Winter, the rest of the line up included here is the same that some months later recorded the s/t BÖC's debut, though the band members still were occult under disquieting aliases, namely Jesse Python (Eric Bloom), La Verne (Allen Lanier), Prince Omega (Al Bouchard), or the lead guitarist and vocalist Donald Roeser, aka "Buck Dharma", moniker he still uses of course. This profusely bootlegged album from 1970 contains a music that, somehow, is close and distant to BÖC; nevertheless showing clearly traces of the band's quality, the sound is still pretty soft and 60s, psychedelic yes, though yet lacking that obscure heaviness which gave the band fame. One of the most interesting cuts here is 'St. Cecilia', almost 7-minute long and featuring a fine guitars interaction by Bloom & Roeser, besides of 'I'm on the lamb, but I ain't no sheep', re-recorded for the 1972 debut "Blue Öyster Cult". 'Curse of the hidden mirrors' will unavoidably redirect the aficionado toward the BÖC's studio album of -almost- the same name from 2001 (their last one so far), album which enigmatically doesn't include this song. The closing and jamming 'A fact about sneakers', almost clocks in at 8 min, bringing another standout of this fine selection which, in the end, was rejected by Elektra and never released, except 300 copies of a single ('What is quicksand?'), which was sent to radio stations exclusively.

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