WEST COAST WORKSHOP Wizard Of Oz 1968 ORIGINAL ELECTRONIC SYNTH PSYCH LP LISTEN

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THE WEST COAST WORKSHOP "THE WIZARD OF OZ" LP

ORIGINAL 1968 PRESSING ON THE CAPITOL LABEL, STEREO ST 2776

COVER IN VG+ shape, light seam wear on bottom, light staining on back

VINYL has handling scuffs, nothing deep, plays real nice VG++

Credit must be given to the enlightened minds in 1968 who had already seen through the motion picture classic “The Wizard of Oz” for what it REALLY represented – clearly, Dorothy Gale was the world’s youngest pothead.  Hurricane, schmurricane – everyone knows that was just some really good weed that transported the girl and her dog to a land where monkeys flew and roads were paved with yellow “bricks” – yeah, that’s right, BRICKS.  What seems REALLY strange is that it took almost 30 years for people to finally catch on.  But in 1968, word was out, in the form of two albums, Mort Garson’s moogy masterpiece “The Wozard of Iz”, and this one, “The Wizard of Oz and Other Trans-Love Trips” by the West Coast Workshop.  Surely this must be the strangest thing Nick Venet’s ever been involved in, having signed and produced the Beach Boys, Fred Neil and the Stone Poneys.  Here, he completely reinvents the Wizard of Oz music as one long cosmic head trip, full of sitars, tablas, flutes and plenty of crazy mad sound effects.  One listen to “T.T.B.C. Theme”, with its mystic sitars, thumping tablas and eerie bendy saw notes, and you’d think this Wizard guy was really a mahareshi living somewhere in Marrakesh.  Probably even has Mia Farrow stashed away in a back room.  The Yellow Brick Road now becomes the “Yellow Brick Trip”, and ends with a chorus of children in what must’ve really been one wicked crash.  “Max the Hobbit”, who I really don’t remember from either the original Wizard of Oz OR the Tolkein trilogy, is a very strange, truly demented, monumentally f&*^%ed up track whereby several species of furry animals gather together and groove in a poppy field while the distant faroff rumbling of drums and sitar echo in the distance, and I’m sure you can throw in a few Ents and Orcs too, for good measure.  Or just check out the sound clip below.  If that grabs your attention, there’s plenty more strangeness to be found in “Ozwind”, where screeching synthesized curlews dance with chittering electronic moles, sharing acid brownies with a twittering C3PO from “Star Wars” and his English friend Steve “Peregrine” Took, who’s more than happy to play his bongos and provide a bit of rhythm to this bleeping, pulsing and squeaking throng.  No doubt about it, sobriety can’t be held responsible for this kind of music – “The Wizard of Oz and Other Trans-Love Trips” is easily the most wasted, stoned and freakish thing ever associated with the Beach Boys name (well, not counting “Johnny Carson”).   Forget “Dark Side of the Moon” – try synching THIS up with the original film and your head will simply explode.  This is the REAL story of Dorothy Gale and the Wizard of Oz.  Now someone get that chick into rehab.

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