The Liberty Bell ‎

For What You Lack / That's How It Will Be

Label: Cee-Bee Records ‎– 1002

Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single

Country: US

Released: Jul 1967

Genre: Rock

Style: Garage Rock

Condition: record looks in VG- , but plays like VG+ (so much better than it looks); the scratches seem to be superficial and hardly affects thesound, minimum of surface noise; side A (for what you lack) has more noticeable surfacenoise but still plays well.

Band history via wiki:

“The Liberty Bell was an American garage rock/psychedelicrock band from Corpus Christi, Texas who were active in the 1960s. They specialized in a blues-based brand of proto-punk influenced by British groups such as the Yardbirds. The band failed to reach wider audience in the time, but have come to the attention of garage rock collectors and enthusiasts in the intervening years since their breakup, with their work appearing on several compilations.

The Liberty Bell was founded in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1966, and their original name was the Zulus. They specialized in a hard-drivingblues-based style of rock influenced by British acts such as the Yardbirds, astheir sound increasingly evolved to embrace elements of psychedelia.

The band's line up initially consisted of Al Hunt on leadguitar, Richard Painter on rhythm guitar, Wayne Harrison on bass, and Carl Abeyon drums. The band signed with Carl Becker, owner of the J-Beck and Cee-Beerecord labels, to manage them. The band was in need of a lead singer, so Beckerenlisted the services of Ronnie Tanner who had sung with another local band the Acoustics.

With Tanner now in the fold, they went into the recording studio and in a cluster of several sessions, they recorded all of the outputthat would be featured on their 1967 Cee-Bee releases. Their debut single,taken from these sessions in McAllen, Texas, was a cover of the Yardbirds'"Nazz Are Blue" b/w Willie Dixon's "Big Boss Man" and was released in May. Their next two 1967 releases were "That's How it WillBe" b/w "For What You Lack" which appeared in July, followed by"Something for Me" b/w "Al's Blues" released in October.The band also cut an acetate of "I Can See" taken from these same sessions.

In early 1968 Ronnie Tanner left the group to fight in Vietnam and was replaced by Chris Gemiottis, formerly in the Zakary Thaks, who brought along several songs with him which displayed lyrics of a more contemplative nature which aptly suited their increasing forays into psychedlia. They signed with Back Beat Records and released "Thoughts and Visions" b/w "Look for Tomorrow" in August 1968. They continued their mixture of garage and psychedelic, however they released a soul-stylenumber, "Naw Naw Naw" in late 1968 on which only Gemiottis participated accompanied by session musicians.

The Liberty Bell broke up in 1969 when Gemiottis returned to the Zakary Thaks”.

Another monster garage punk record, it doesn’t get any better than this an absolute four star from Texas. Very hard to find in any condition. I had this record for about 35 years.