1969 1st LP FREE TONS OF SOBS HARD BLUES PSYCH PAUL KOSSOFF BLACK CAT BONES
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1969 ORIGINAL PRESSING!
Hard to find SUPER-CLEAN Cover!
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" T O N S O F S O B S "
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Hard to find SUPER-CLEAN M- Cover! (see full details below)
Scarce ! 50 YEARS PAST ~ -> The very first BLUES PSYCH Lp by the mighty FREE ...
If you forgot the impact, don't wait!
It was 1969, and three albums would arrive to typify British Blues: Jeff Beck’s Truth, Led Zeppelin I and Free’s ~Tons of Sobs.
Two of these are venerated for having been the building blocks of blues-based rock. If you have both of those and think that you know the whole story, then you’ve been missing something.
Free was still two albums away from the song that would put them into their little corner of rock Valhalla , “All Right Now." This is the starting point for the great unsung British rock band.
A quick listen to all three albums shows the same influences, but their execution is completely different. Jeff Back’s group was never totally cohesive, and even the “live” blues on their first album was a studio effort with overdubbed audience. Zeppelin I sounds huge, massive, as if somehow, even from the first notes of "Good Times, Bad Times," Page and the rest had already shed the remnants of The Yardbirds in a single tour and were already a completely different entity. Tons of Sobs puts us front and center at the club show of a band that exploded from the first rehersal. Free , in fact, would be amazing live, and the records would only carry part of that weight. Lets listen in
Tons of Sobs opens and closes with a fragment of a song, "Over the Green Hills," and bleeds straight into "Worry," with Kossoff’s repeating guitar triplets letting us know that we walked into the pub in the middle of the performance. As the guitar solo ends, Kirke’s drums and Fraser’s menacing bass stalk in and we know that we’re in a whole different space. “If it’s the cold black night/that eating up your heart/the cold damp sweat/keeps you and sleep apart” sings a young Paul Rodgers. Free isn’t pretending to be anything other than what they are: a young blues playing their favorite music.
"Walk in the Shadows," and "The Hunter," show just how good and tight a band they were. Both have Fraser, whose bass was both melodic and inventive, locked in with Simon Kirke’s drums, riding the back beat while Kossoff alternates between riffing and some absolutely incendiary fills and solos. Rodgers is in amazing form already at the age of 18, putting real edge to such lines as “When I get you in the shdows baby/I’m going to give you whats in store.”
"Going Down Slow," sounds like it should be on Beck’s album, and sounds like it really is live, a full band that doesn’t need the studio to make the thing work. "The Hunter," is uptempo from Zeppelin’s version, with some great guitar work, and, without the bolero ending that Page and Plant grafted on the end, sounds a lot more like Howlin’ Wolf then either of the band’s could manage.
In fact, Free was as preoccupied with getting some as Robert Plant or Howlin’ Wolf were. Two of the songs, "Wild Indian Woman," and "Sweet Tooth," have more double entendres than anything that the 60’s had run across in a long time; “You don’t need you horses baby/you’ve got me to ride/you don’t need your bed/I’ll keep you warm inside.” Lets spend the night together indeed. Sung in Paul Rodger’s most seductive voice, gliding on the back of a rhythm section that knew how to swing, one shudders to think of how well this worked for him in the pubs of North London in 1968.
Loose and loud,
Free has plenty swagger, and style, their hard rhythms on TONS OF SOBS always tight and punishing hard.
- Over The Green Hills Pt. I
- Worry
- Walk In My Shadow
- Wild Indian Woman
- Goin' Down Slow
- I'm A Mover
- The Hunter
- Moonshine
- Sweet Tooth
- Over The Green Hill Pt. II
CONDITION: The cover: Rated: strong M- TOP COPY! Thick and stiff all over, very hard to find this cover clean, it's dark brown and most surviving 1969 originals are going to have wear, and lots of wear in many cases. This is a TOP COPY with virtually NO WEAR! Has no delete marks, no writing and no split seams will still retaining strong original colors
The vinyl: Rated: all very shiny, VG+(+) to VG++ side one: has light scuffs, nothing deep, so plays with excellent enjoyable audio side two clean besides a couple nothing scuffs but visible per same in side one. AUDIO is excellent, no problems guaranteed! Both (tan/brown) labels are clean.
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A cool addition to anyone's music library!SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people... EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING All imperfections are noted both cover & record NOTE: All Items backed by money back guarantee! IF you have a problem PLEASE let us solve for you BEFORE leaving ANY negative feedback. Thanks! GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M Completely clean, no marks M- Carefully used, looks clean, plays clean, shiny gloss, no marks EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean VG++ Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, clean VG+ a bit more scuff or markls still plays well with very minimal surface at worse VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops this grade is abused by many, VG here does not mean "trashed" VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps ALL PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 5 DAYS Of AUCTIONS END BIDDERS PLEASE = Do Not Bid If You Are Not Serious About Following Through The Transaction! ALL ITEMS GUARANTEED FOR WINNING BID - LESS SHIPPING!
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