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RARE 1967 ORIGINAL
HAUNTING FEMALE/MALE HIPPIES PSYCH FOLK CLASSIC
RARE MONO SONG MIXES
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THE SERPENT POWER
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USA - VANGUARD RECORDS - VRS 9212 - MONOPHONIC
the Hippies Summer Of Love ... 50th year anniversary listings ...
RARE 1967 FIRST PRINTING... IN GLORIOUS MONO
STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE
The mono song mixes are bold punchy...different from the song separation stereo edition...
...Original 1967 first pressing by an incredibly good Sanfrancisco psych/folk mix capped off with flowing/haunting melodies and a long exotic epic ... female male vocals of the best kind ...hear a couple tracks see below description
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The mighty SERPENT POWER, a San Francisco band, was fronted by poet David Meltzer who formed the band with his wife Tina in 1966. Ed Denton then manager of Country Joe And The Fish was knocked-out and recommended them to Vanguard after hearing their first gig, a benefit for the Telegraph Group Neighbourhood Centre on 27th November 1966.
The album is notable for tasty flowing electric guitar work amid fantastic self penned tunes as on Gently Gently and Open House , plus Tina s beautiful vocals are to the fore on the amazing Flying Away, a haunting track with beautiful melody...the group are probably best remembered for the album s closing track Endless Tunnel, an ambitious amalgam of Western and Eastern musical styles.
Overall the album is legendary and sadly Serpent Power s only album, it s definitely a psychedelic masterpiece. Besides Meltzer and his wife Tina who sang both lead and harmony vocals , the band also included Denny Ellis and David Stenson on lead guitar and bass, respectively, both of whom had gotten their start with 66 first LP Grass Roots. The band became a full rock outfit with the inclusion of John Payne on organ and Clark Coolidge on drums. The album received a somewhat limited pressing makes it now so hard to find and, despite featuring some excellent examples of flowing psychedelia, the band never got that big, known mostly within the San Francisco area. The album s last track is a fantastic raga-rock epic reaching exotic exploratory directions. The band didn t record another album, and disbanded in 1968. David and Tina Meltzer went on to record another album, Poet s Song, under their own names.
CLARK COOLIDGE drms
DENNY ELLIS ld gtr
DAVID MELTZER hrmnca, gtr, vcls
TINA MELTZER vcls
JOHN PAYNE organ
DAVID STENSON bss
Don t You Listen to Her ...2:20
Gently, Gently ...2:36
Open House ...3:31
Flying Away ...4:26
Nobody Blues ...3:50
Up and Down ...3:37
Sky Baby ...2:32
Forget ...3:34
Dope Again ...0:47
Endless Tunnel ...13:14
CONDITION: The Cover: Clean and solid all over, M- factory shrink wrap Has no split seams, no delete marks, no writing and rich original colors...a great collection score
The Vinyl: all clean over both sides, M- full of shine The whole LP plays with excellent audio and IS very enjoyable ... both silver MONO Vanguard labels are free from soil writing
A cool addition to anyone s music library
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GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG ,VG , VG, VG-
M Completely clean, no marks
M- Carefully used, looks clean, plays clean, shiny gloss, no marks
EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean
VG Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, clean
VG a bit more scuff or markls still plays well with very minimal surface at worse
VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops
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VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps
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