POWER PLANT The Golden Dawn 1968 TX Garage/Psych NM/EX 180gr Import LP in SHRINK
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1999 issue 180 gram Stereo LP
PURE VIRGIN VINYL AUDIOPHILE Master MADE in ITALY
VINYL is NEAR MINT / EX
Full Gloss, extremely clean Vinyl shows some very light cosmetic surface scuff on SIDE ONE under hard bright light, that is inaudible (EX). SIDE TWO is NEAR MINT, Pristine. LP plays superb throughout. Labels are immaculate both sides.
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COVER is NEAR MINT
Still in the complete original manufacturer's shrink wrap; crisp, vibrant, snapping bright and spanking clean with no creases, bends, writing soil or other issues. All edges straight, all corners sharp. Clear, solid Spine Titles, 100% legible.
*Please excuse any 'grainy' look to pictures (...from low-light photos).
STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG
Absolute classic TEXAS 60s PSYCH LP from this incredible band!
AMAZING TEXAS PSYCH ON PAR WITH LABELMATES AND CLOSE FRIENDS ROKY ERICKSON AND THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS!!! THEIR ONLY LP.
180 gram pure Virgin Vinyl. Originally released by International Artists (AI-4) in 1968. Custom POWER PLANT labels, thick heavy audiophile grade pressing of 1968 album, pressed in Italy.
One of the most powerful International Artists albums, from 1968. Some will go so far as to say that this album defines the Texas third-mind psych revolution, even more so than 13th Floor Elevators’ Easter Everywhere (I find it too close to call myself, both are masterpieces of Primal, Hallucinogenic Texas Psych). The combinations of Eastern-tinged Psychedelic philosophical excursions, swirling hallucinogenics and pure Texan Garage dirt produced a legitimate monster of its time.
All tunes published by:
Tapier Music - BMI
Made in Italy Manufactured and marketed by Abraxas Srl - Piazza Maltoni 16
Official SIAE Rights Society stamp on back cover
Artwork [Cover Design] – Flash Graphics
Engineer – Frank Davis
Producer – Lelan Rogers
Track Listing:
A1 Evolution
A2 This Way Please
A3 Starvation
A4 I'll Be Around
A5 Seeing Is Believing
B1 My Time
B2 A Nice Surprise
B3 Every Day
B4 Tell Me Why
B5 Reaching Out To You
a MUST HAVE album for all ELEVATORS collectors
and fans of primal 1960s TEXAS PSYCH.
Vinyl inside audiophile grade anti-static, anti-dust inner sleeve
Even though still in the original Shrinkwrap, this album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve
Highly collectible Texas acid-injected fuzzrock gem. The Golden Dawn issued only this one, outstanding, Psych/Garage album, filled to the brim with inspired psychedelic wanderings and enigmatic lyrics... from the 60s Texas garage psych scene.
One of the earliest Texas psychedelic '60s groups on the legendary International Artists label, home of the 13th Floor Elevators. In fact, the Golden Dawn sounded a lot like the Elevators, though their lead singer / main songwriter, George Kinney, had a sometimes gentler, more fragile vocal delivery than Roky Erickson.
The similarity wasn't terribly surprising given that Kinney had grown up with Erickson, and had earlier played with Roky in a pre-Elevators group, The Fugitives. Kinney also played in The Chelsea, which for a time included 13th Floor Elevators' Powell St. John.
The Golden Dawn became a part of the International Artists roster with the Elevators' help. They released only this one album, in 1968, “POWER PLANT”, that (again, like the Elevators) featured a bold psychedelic cover, inscrutable liner notes, and sometimes inscrutable lyrics. George Kinney's role in the Roky Erickson saga wasn't finished when the Golden Dawn broke up; he financed the publication of Erickson's book, “Openers”, which helped get Roky out of Rusk State Mental Hospital.
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The original 1968 International Artists issue of Golden Dawn's `Power Plant' is one of the most hotly sought albums within the world of Psych Rock collectors
...commanding several hundred dollars when in top condition. Alongside the 13th Floor Elevators, Lost & Found, The Red Krayola and Bubble Puppy, Golden Dawn was one of Texas' major psychedelic exports.
Track 3) Starvation - One of the most 13th Floor Elevator sounding songs on the album, with vocalist George Kinney sounding eerily akin to his friend Roky Erickson. This has some great piercing guitar work courtesy of the two Golden Dawn guitarists Jimmy Bird and Tom Ramsey.
Track 6) My Time -This a great rollicking, exuberant and ecstatic tune, with strong vocal harmonies and more superb, rolling fuzz guitar all through the song, culminating on a simple yet perfect eastern-tinged guitar solo.
Track 8) Every Day - This is a slow, spectral song that ends in very cool backwards fuzz guitar with the pulsing hi-hat in the background holding it all together till it drifts away into nothingness.
This album is full of swirling garage rock & billowing Psychedelia that grab on and hold your attention, moving through Acid-Fuzz Rock through contemplative LSD-inspired journeys.
Please see my other listings for
Rare Vintage Collectible 1960's and 70's PSYCH and related LPs.
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