CLEAN! 1968 ACID ORIG RAINBOW ~ Steve MILLER BAND ~ SAILOR = SF Psych BOZ SCAGGS
Sold Date:
November 9, 2014
Start Date:
November 6, 2014
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1968 ORIGINAL~ RAINBOW CAPITOL COLLECTIBLE S.F. PSYCH CLASSIC!
COLLECTION COPY!
CLEAN ALL OVER!
The STEVE MILLER BAND
SAILOR
\ USA - RAINBOW CAPITOL - ST 2984
TOP COPY !!
CLEAN ALL OVER !
RARE collection copy, found as a MINTY 1968 first pressing on the famously collected RAINBOW Capitol label of the sixties...the underestimated 2nd Steve Miller Band album, issued in the heart of the San Francisco hippie psych scene...
SAILOR is a 60's West Coast psychedelic blues masterpiece. Honestly the first thing thats comes to mind is to pitty the ignorant masses that think Steve Miller's limited to corny pop-rock creations like "Abracadabra" or those who have only heard "Serenade" from their "Greatest rock hits of all time" compilations.
SAILOR features atmospheric and exquisitely textured instrumentals, melodic and vibrating guitar lines that successfully blend psychedelic and rock. It was also the last Steve Miller Band album to feature contributions by Boz Scaggs.
Sandwiched in between the band's love for the blues and R&B with "Gangster Of Love" and "You're So Fine" are great rock tracks such as "Living In The USA" and "Dime-A-Dance Romance." The desert-island choice, however, is the imaginative instrumental "Song For Our Ancestors." Close your eyes while listening to it and, without needing artificial stimulants, you can actually hear ferry boats entering the harbor, as captured in audio verite for the track. Steve Miller reiterated that he was always aware of forward thinking: "It's amazing what the breakthroughs are, and the quality is absolutely better and you don't have the digital/analog argument anymore about what sounds the best. It's all new. And now anybody in the world can do what I wanted to do so badly when I got my deal with Capitol Records and got to finally go into a recording studio." What was begun on Children of the Future is more fully realized on Sailor, most notably on the opening "Song for Our Ancestors," which begins with a foghorn and only gets stranger from there. Indeed, the song precognizes Pink Floyd's 1971 opus "Echoes" to such an extent that one wonders how much the latter enjoyed Miller's own wild ride. Elsewhere, the beautiful, slow "Dear Mary" positively shimmers in a haze of declared love, while the heavy drumbeats and rock riffing guitar of "Living in the U.S.A." are a powerful reminder that the Steve Miller Band, no matter what other paths they meandered down, could rock out with the best of them.
And, of course, this is the LP that introduced many to the classic "Gangster of Love," a song that would become almost wholly Miller's own, giving the fans an alter ego to caress long before "The Joker" arose to show his hand. Rounding out Miller's love of the blues is an excellent rendering of "You're So Fine." At their blues-loving best, Sailor is a classic Miller recording and a must-have — especially for the more contemporary fan, where it becomes an initiation into a past of mythic proportion.
CONDITION: The Cover: is solid all over, a TOP COPY, rated M- pretty great for a 46 year old S.F. psychedelic relic! NO delete marks, no seam splits, no writing... collection copy all the way!!!
The Vinyl: is all glossy, rated TOP near M- and plays excellent clean ...with also clean rainbow Capitol labels.
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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