Insanely rare psych acid rock 7 first and only pressing. The record was limited to 50 copies although other sources say 25 copies privately pressed apparently with Nick Mason of Pink Floyd producing the B Side Boring Song. Please see detailed notes with regards to this record.
In 1970 a group from Derby calling themselves CHARGE took a tape they made of two songs in the local Uni library to a small pressing plant and had a few 7 records made, their only release.
Catalogued in recent price guides as a 20 private pressing, this disc has flown under the radar, with the B side being spotted as being a good piece of Pink Floyd sounding psych and included on a CD compilation of the genre.
The small pressing plant they group went to to get this record pressed was DEROY, much sought after by collectors looking for those rare folk/psych discs, the disc has the matrix stamper of ADM549 B / ADM549 B. The ADM prefix is a known DEROY stamper, this places this disc as being pressed at the DEROY plant late 1969 early 1970. The stamper for Side A is pressed into the labels edge.
It is believed that only 25 to 50 copies of this rare record were ever made, unlikely many survive today. This is only the third copy I have come across anywhere online the last copy being sold in 2010 in only VG condition.
The group are listed as...
Andy on lead guitar
Paul on organ and rhythm guitar
Chris on bass guitar
Slim on drums
... no last names.
DAVE YOELL was one of the members of The Principal Edwards Magic Theatre in 1969
The producer of PEMTs records in 1969 was Nick Mason of Pink Floyd.
By the end of 1968 the Pink Floyd psychedelic sound was sounding dated, it has been suggested that Nick Mason may have helped stamp his influence on this BORING SONG ... working with or alongside Dave Yoell... maybe it was just an influence during the PEMT days... but there is definitely something highly Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett style about the song. No one is sure if Syd is actually singing or playing on this record but there s a slim chance?
The sleeves were printed with the records in situ, hence why the printing is only picked up in a circular shape, and the plain white labels have got the rest of the print... the side pictured is the Boring Song side, which has what is similar to news paper print/stories around the edge unreadable as stories , and the central picture on the sleeve/label is of the group... the other side doesn t reference the group and is black and white newspaper type TV listings.
Condition
Sleeve:
The sleeve is in Excellent minus condition
Vinyl is close to Mint- Side A Excellent
Side B is the same but with a superficial mark that does not effect play so graded at Excellent.
SIDE ONE : WHIPLASH
SIDE TWO : BORING SONG
FORMAT : 7 single, 45rpm
VERSION :
LABEL : ZEUGMA / DEROY
CATALOGUE NUMBER : no catalogue number, but matrix stamper is ADM549 A - B
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN : UK
DATE : 1970
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