Sold Date: August 6, 2017
Start Date: July 30, 2017
Final Price: $21.50 (USD)
Bid Count: 2
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THIS IS A VERY NICE MONO COPY OF THE HARD TO FIND PSYCH RARITY
ELECTRIC MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND BODY BY COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH ON
MONO VANGUARD #VRS 9244
BOTH SIDES OF THE RECORD AND BOTH LABELS ARE IN VERY GOOD + CONDITION, WITH ONLY A VERY FEW MINOR SURFACE SCUFFS & SCRATCHES.
THE COVER IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION-  NO WRITING, NO STICKERS, NO TAPE, NO SPINE DISTRESS. THERE IS A TINY BB HOLE ON THE TOP LEFT  --  [SEE PHOTO]
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~ In 1967, this album defined the genre known as acid-rock ~

COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH's 'Electric Music For The Mind And Body' is their most joyous and cohesive statement and one of the most important and enduring documents of the psychedelic era, the band's swirl of lysergic atmospherics is drenched with distorted guitar and whirling organ at its most inventive. In contrast to Jefferson Airplane, who were at their best working within conventional song structures, and the Grateful Dead, who hadn't quite yet figured out how to transpose their music to the recording studio, Country Joe & the Fish delivered a fully formed, uncompromising, and yet utterly accessible -- in fact, often delightfully witty -- body of psychedelic music the first time out. Ranging in mood from good-timey to downright apocalyptic, it embraced all of the facets of the band's music, which were startling in their diversity: soaring guitar and swirling keyboard excursions ("Flying High," "Section 43," "Bass Strings," "The Masked Marauder"), the group's folkrock roots ("Sad and Lonely Times"), McDonald's personal ode to Grace Slick ("Grace"), and their in-your-face politics ("Superbird"). Hardly any band since the Beatles had ever come up with such a perfect and perfectly bold introduction to who and what they were, and the results -- given the prodigious talents and wide-ranging orientation of this group -- might've scared off most major record labels. Additionally,The quiet power of this album continues to enthrall those willing to enter its strange but friendly world. The quiet power of this album continues to enthrall those willing to enter its strange but friendly world -- the hippie temptation within the hippie sensation...the results, here, are etched in stone: