Terry Reid- Better By Far 3/5/1968 Columbia DB8409 Demo NM ?? VERY RARE?? 45
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Terry Reid- Bette By Far.r/Fires Alive Columbia DB8409 Released 3rd May 1968
Vinyl is superb, no visible Mark's and clean labels in it's original birth sleeve.A really nice Demo in NM condition.
A EX copy sold for $145 in 2017 as buy now. but prices for an EX also sold for at auction for £21. Interested in serious offers only.
This was part of a collection from a late 1960s dj, and this demo amongst others were given to him to play, promote and review singles mainly from 1968.
Postage will be by 1st class signed for and Worldwide International Track and Signed
Terry Reid was a failry underappreciated English rock vocalist/guitarist ca. late 60's-early 70's....his first release was the interestingly titled "Bang Bang You're Terry Reid", which contained the single "Better By Far"...he was joined by Peter Solley on keyboards and Keith Webb on the drums. Seemingly, his lucky break was being asked to join Cream on thier 1968 US tour...."Bang Bang You're Terry Reid" is a MUCH better album than it was percieved as being at the time....."Without Expression" is another good number, aned the album holds up surprisingly well, in particular for those whom have never heard it.
An interesting story I had not hearad comes from the Wikipedia article on Reid....it seems that he was Jimmy Page's first choice for a vocalist for the "New Yardbirds", aka Led Zeppelin....since he was already committed to tour with Cream, Reid recommended Robert Plant. Apparently he was also offered the same job in Deep Purple (to replace Rod Evans), the position that was given to Ian Gillan.
His next release was also a quite good one, "Move Over For Terry Reid" (1969) which evidently was not terribly commercially successful, either, but listening to it today.....well, it's quite good as well...."Superlungs", "Rich Kid Blues", and his version of "Highway 61 Revisited" are all solid, and there is a good bit of other good, original material here. Likewise, his third full length, "River" is solid and was also rather poorly recieved commercially.
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