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STRANGE featuring Terry Brooks
USA - star people PRIVATE PRESS
Original ...MEGA RARE specially designed - custom flip-top box for promotional use only that was to be sent to radio stations and media outlets showcasing the STRANGE High Flyer LP
STILL FACTORY SEALED LP in the RARE promotional box ...
Terry Brooks is known to collectors of heavy
psych rock for his Translucent World 1973 and Raw Power 1976 albums,
released under the name Strange later reissued as Terry Brooks and
Strange . But digging deeper into the life and work of this gifted
guitarist, artist and author reveals a fascinating tale of a man who was
ahead of his time as a musician, and one who took control of the
pressing and releasing of his albums in the days before such endeavors
were common.
Though heavy psych is the tag typically given to
Terry s music, attentive listening across several albums reveals a deep
space quality and distinctly personal guitar style that is
simultaneously cosmic and manic, other-worldly and molten lava rocking.
For Terry Brooks the guitar solo is sacred. Solos frequently dominate
entire tracks, though far from being self-indulgent, the solo is for
Terry a means of articulating the very essence of his soul.
HIGH
FLYER was a One-take LP recorded live raw in the studio ... a long
album, it s 50 minutes The Earth Side delivers devastating
guitar-blasting hardrock dominated by plenty of explosive heavy searing
leads. The famous Billboard magazine reviewed it Recommended the
album which was pretty uncommon for a hits-ville crew to ever
recommend an underground psych album ...the songs on HIGH FLYER are full
of Brooks trademark fast-picking lead guitar style. The album s most
memorable song, It s A Beautiful Day, starts out a gentle ballad and
deteriorates into endless guitar-mania soloing. Overall the album is
entertaining, and compelling with an odd charm
A You Will Be Loved 5:24
Child Of The City 5:30
Rock And Roll Woman 4:26
Space Side
B What Kind Of Man 2:47
My Lady And Me 3:50
Love Of The Ages 4:42
High Flyer 3:50
CONDITION: rated: the rare custom designed promo box is in excellent shape, photo 2 shows the box is made out to a reviewer and signed by guitarist Terry... the actual LP inside is STILL FACTORY SEALED , a perfect copy with 4 sharp corners ... still has a fresh appearance -- there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... VERY collection worthy artifact from the American underground heavy-psych scene ...
A cool addition to anyone s music library
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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover record
