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    AWESOME BRITISH PSYCHEDELIC CLASSIC!

     RARE 1969 PROGRESSIVE COLLECTIBLE

                                                                                    TOP COPY

                    

             

        

               MIGHTY BABY

      

                              

            

\                                                        USA - HEAD RECORDS = LPS 025

 

FINAL COLLECTION COPY

 

LOOKS and PLAYS CLEAN

RARE AND SOUGHT ...

UK act MIGHTY BABY was Formed in 1968, featuring several members of the newly disbanded outfit The Action. They hit the studio right away, and Had an album ready by the end of '68, Eventually All which was released at the tail end of 1969 on the Head Records.

When the Action broke up in the late 60s, they reformed minus their singer Reggie King as Azoth. The Azoth name was short lived, leading the band to settle on Mighty Baby. The Action had played the club circuit for years, releasing many excellent mod singles before plunging into the world of psychedelia. This band had always worked hard, and now they were finally given the luxury to record a long player.   Mighty Baby’s album was released in 1969 off the small independent Head label. At this point, Mighty Baby could technically and instrumentally hold their own against rock’s finest. Few debut openers are as good as the revolutionary Egyptian Tomb. It’s a sleek, powerful piece of psychedelia with strong west coast style guitar interplay. At 5:30 minutes, this great song never falls flat and is definitely one of the defining moments of British acid rock. Same Way From The Sun has a similar stoned vibe with psychedelic echo and sounds like it could have been lifted from a really good latter '60s Byrds album.

A truly extraordinary west coast psychedelic / acid rock album with strong Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service with some fuzz influences in some tracks and a very mild, if not minimal prog touch .... 'Mighty Baby' showcased an inventive and surprisingly-experimental outfit Whose West-coast leanings nicely contrasted with their UK beat-group origins. Songs such as the impressive, rural-flecked rocker 'A Friend You Know But Never See' start as seemingly simplistic-late-sixties psych-tinged rock, before breaking headlong into complex, overlapping rhythms that spin off into oblivion Jerry Garcia-inspired and back again via semi-progressive instrumental passages That feature Cajun violins, guitars and bluesy-folk-pressed vocals. Fans of The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Wizards From Kansas, as well as early rainy-day UK psych purveyors The Move, Tomorrow and The Magic Mixture shoulds find much to admire on this enjoyable album, and whilst there may not be the complex keyboard passages, rampant experimentation and surreal conceits that ordain the best 1970's prog, Mighty Baby's brand of all-encompassing psychedelic rock remains refreshingly timeless.

- Alan King / guitars, vocals
- Ian Whiteman / piano
- Martin Stone / guitars
- Mike Evans / bass
- Roger Powell / drums

Egyptian Tomb (5:28)
A Friend You Know But Never See (4:24)
I've Been Down So Long (5:05)
Same Way From the Sun (5:37)
House Without Windows (6:10)
Trials of a City (5:58)
I'm From the Country (4:49)
At a Point Between Fate and Destiny (4:44)

                                          

CONDITION: The Cover: The thick gatefold cover is rated near M- a fantastic copy for this wear prone cover that almost always has shelf wear; here's the survivor with NOT the shelf wear... strong colors, no delete marks, no fading, no bends, no writing, no split seams ...

The Vinyl: still retains original smooth clean shine, rated top copy M- plays with excellent audio. The HEAD records labels are clean

             

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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