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C. A. Quintet Trip Thru Hell Authorized 2 Record Set Reissue Sealed - RARE
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December 9, 2020
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C. A. Quintet "Trip Thru Hell" Sundazed Authorized 2 Record Set Reissue Still Sealed in mint condition. Sundazed LP 5037 Stereo/Mono. This 2 record set has not been available as new for many years now as Sundazed transitioned to pressing a single record eliminating the second LP in this 2 record set.
The album is double sealed. It has the original shrink wrap intact and is also enclosed in an outer sealed poly bag.
The photo of the inside of the gatefold record sleeve is from an open copy of this album in my record collection.
There's not much to compare this album to, even in the weird
music offerings of 1968 with its spooky organ and morbid imagery. But with the exception of the brassy good-time track "Underground Music", psychedelia was very rarely this dementedly
gloomy. Occasional pealing bells and curdling screams, to say nothing of the cover art, add to the foggy underworld menace.
The 12 bonus cuts (2nd LP in this album) gather some rare non-LP singles, alternate takes, and previously unreleased songs, and the liner notes feature extensive interviews with Ken Erwin and engineer Steve Longman.
Virtually no one outside Minneapolis heard of the C.A. Quintet during the late-'60s. It was the C. A. Quintet's fortune to actually reach a considerably bigger international audience when their album was reissued on CD in the early '80s. Starting as a rather conventional pop-soul/garage band, their one and only album, Trip Thru Hell (1968), was a worthy slice of dark psychedelia. With spooky organ and the occasional trumpet of singer/songwriter Ken Erwin, the group's murky and macabre vision dotted with trips through hell, cold spiders, Colorado mornings, and the like was genuinely original and chilling. Trip Thru Hell only sold 700-800 copies when it was first issued (originals which now sell for just under $2,000.00, but after gaining status among hardcore '60s psychedelic collectors, it was reissued in 1983 by Sundazed under license from the C. A. Quintet!
