THE EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND-WASA WASA-HARVEST 1ST PRESS SHVL.757 1969 EX+
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£ 20 Sold For
Apr 22, 2012 Sold Date
Apr 12, 2012 Start Date
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THE EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND-WASA WASA TYPE SINGLE LP-STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO

HARVEST 1ST PRESS WITH NO EMI BOX ON THE LABELS-GRAMOPHONE CO LTD RIM TEXT. MATRIX NUMBERS SHVL 757 A-1 & SHVL 757 B-1 AND STAMPERS 1O/1A

CATALOGUE NUMBER SHVL 757 YEAR OF RELEASE 1969 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD-Ernest J DAY LAMINATED OUTER BOARDS INSERTS/EXTRAS NONE   GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s)

NICE EXCELLENT+ (NICE CLEAN record with VERY LIGHT playwear and VERY LIGHT surface handling marks,plays great throughout)

LABELS

EXCELLENT+ (CLEAN LABELS with NO writing rips tears stickers or removal marks,and LIGHT spindlewear)

SLEEVE

 

Front board and Inner Gatefold EX+

NICE CLEAN sleeve.The front board has no writing rips tears stickers or remains,the laminate is bright and shiny with just a little light rubbing and pressure marking and light creasing.INNER GATEFOLD is clean and unmarked with very light ageing and wear.

Rear board EX CLEAN with shiny laminate and light pressure wear,has a light laminate crease bottom right corner Flipbacks N/A N/A Spine EX+ COMPLETE and light wear and complete lettering with a bit of rubbing wear near the bottom Edges EX+ TOP and bottom edges have very light wear with no laminate loss or cracking Opening EX+ LIGHT wear and VERY LIGHT usage Corners EX+ ALL corners have just light wear.   INNER /EXTRAS

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Establishing themselves as an unholy collision between the still-nascent Pink Fairies and the legendary Fugs, the debut album by British free-festival favorites the Edgar Broughton Band almost literally re-created the spirit of their natural territory -- a muddy field full of sunbaked hippies -- with eight more or less epic tracks that, though their inspiration has long become the stuff of ancient history, remain essential listening to all but the most jaded ears.

All maniacal cackle and frenzied riffing, the band's first single, "Evil," and the brutal bellowing of "Love in the Rain" are the most conventional numbers in that they were certainly written as crowd-pleasing stompers in the days before "Out Demons Out" established itself as the Edgar Broughton Band's all-consuming anthem.

More impressive, however, are the numbers which see the band stretching both their capabilities and their audience's expectations -- the lengthy opus "Dawn Crept Away," the evocatively titled "Death of an Electric Citizen," and, best of all, "American Boy Soldier." Ranking alongside Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" as British rock's finest contribution to the Vietnam War, it is a Mothers of Invention-esque piece that blends sneering spoken word with a delightfully doo wop-ish invocation of all that war really has to offer and all that its servants leave behind. "Shot down from my plane/Never be the same again/I was just 16 years old."

As jaggedly metallic as it is theatrically ambitious, Wasa Wasa (an Eskimo phrase meaning "from far, far away") stands alongside early albums by the Fairies, the Deviants, and Hawkwind as a dramatic snapshot of a very special moment in time, as the whimsical hopefulness of the late '60s gave way to the chilled cynicism of the early '70s. And, while the band would certainly produce better songs over the next three years, they never again unleashed such a potent mood.

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