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BEAUTIFUL MINTY TOP COPY
1967 ORIGINAL First Print
ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP
HAUNTING FEMALE/MALE TRADEOFFS
WEAVING PSYCHEDELIC CLASSIC
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THE SERPENT POWER
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USA - Vanguard VSD-79252
MINT Original...RARE 1967 FIRST PRINTING
Still with the original Vanguard designed 1967 inner sleeve
SONG SEPARATION STEREO
MINT Original 1967 first pressing by an incredibly convincing San Francisco electrified psych outflow with haunting melodies and highlighted in a 13 mins exotic epic ...
Featuring female male vocals in top-flight level
The LP is legendary, if you don t own a copy, treat yourself
Original mighty SERPENT POWER, the San Francisco band, 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 rightly knocked-out and recommended them to Vanguard after hearing their first gig, a benefit for the Telegraph Group Neighborhood Centre on 27th November 1966.
The SERPENT POWER 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 fantastic melody...the group are probably best remembered for the album s long 13:14 track Endless Tunnel, an ambitious amalgam of EAST/WEST exotic styles.
Overall the album is legendary and sadly Serpent Power s only album, 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 - drums
DENNY ELLIS - lead guitar
DAVID MELTZER - guitar, vocals
TINA MELTZER - vocals
JOHN PAYNE - organ
DAVID STENSON - bass
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
The cover: rated: MINT In ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP ...a perfect cover, awesome cover without any fading, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...absolute TOP COPY
The vinyl:
Rated: M- complimenting the nice cover, the vinyl is terrific, shiny smooth and plays with clean wide-range audio ... both Vanguard labels
are flawless
includes the original 1967 Vanguard printed inner sleeve
