1970 TRAPEZE - RARE 1st LP - Prog Psych UK Hard Rock M-
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RARE 1970 first pressing gatefold vinyl!
TRAPEZE
...USA - Threshold - THS 2
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Original 1970 first pressing vinyl in THICK gatefold ...this copy in terrific shape as first printings from 38 years ago with THIS type of dark cover wear SO easily, this copy TOP!
Trapeze was formed in 1969 by vocalist John Jones and guitarist/keyboardist Terry Rowley (both former members of the band Montanas with guitarist Mel Galley, singer/bassist Glenn Hughes, and drummer Dave Holland. Trapeze issued its self-titled debut album Trapeze in 1970, but early that year Jones and Rowley would return to Montanas. The sounds here don't closely resemble the hard-rocking later TRAPEZE albums — there are lush choruses, psychedelic interludes, and hook-laden ballads scattered throughout this record.
Yet that trio, of Hughes, Galley, and Holland, is pumping out high-energy music within the context of psychedelic pop/rock throughout this album, which comes off as a much higher-wattage alternative to to The Moody Blues. And in some respects, this album also closely resembles the better moments on those three early Deep Purple albums (the ones with Rod Evans on lead vocals), when they were essentially a hard-rock outfit still playing hard psych/rock — the results are decent, in fact, are quite catchy at times, but it's clear that three of these musicians are holding back to one degree or another in these surroundings. Galley's high-energy leads and power chords, and Hughes's already larger-than-life bass are the dominant sounds about sixty percent of the time, overpowering much around them, with songs like the Galley / Jones-composed "Fairytale" and Hughes-authored "Am I" pointing the way to their future sound — and even on Rowley's rock ballad "Send Me No More Letters", Holland is playing drums about as hard as the music will permit. The core trio does find a good compromise with Rowley and Jones' more lyrical, psychedelic pop sensibilities, and Trapeze probably could have held this sound together longer than they did, but for Jones's and Rowley's departure. But it's also clear that there was another band trying to break out from within the sound of this lineup, which happened later in the year when Trapeze was reduced to a trio- It's Only A Dream (Galley) 0:44
- The Giant's Dead Hoorah! (Hughes) 3:33
- Over (Jones, Galley) 3:38
- Nancy Gray (Hughes) 2:48
- Fairytale - Verily Verily - Fairytale (Jones, Galley) 7:41
- It's My Life (Jones, Galley) 2:51
- Am I (Hughes) 3:08
- Suicide (Jones, Galley) 4:52
- Wings (Hughes, Rowley) 3:30
- Another Day (Galley, Hughes, Jones) 2:37
- Send Me No More Letters (Rowley) 4:35
- It's Only A Dream- Reprise (Galley) 0:40
CONDITION: The gatefold cover is EX (excellent) VERY hard to find THIS clean, trust me on that!
The vinyl is super clean M- plays beautiful
Great rare TRAPEZE 1st Lp from early 1969
keeper!
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONES COLLECTIBLES!
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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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