CAPTAIN MARRYAT SUPER RARE UK ORIGINAL PROG PSYCH LP
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I FOUND THIS RECORD ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS AGO AT A RECORD FAIR IN GLASGOW, I WAS BLOWN AWAY BY THE TOP QUALITY PROGRESSIVE ROCK SOUNDS CONTAINED WITHIN, I KEPT IT TO MYSELF FOR YEARS,WONDERING WHETHER TO SELL IT BUT WORRIED THAT BECAUSE IT WAS UNKNOWN IT WOULDN'T FETCH THE PRICE I FELT IT DESERVED. IMAGINE MY SURPRISE AND DELIGHT WHEN LAST WEEK ANOTHER COPY APPEARED ON EBAY AND FETCHED A GOOD PRICE, I FELT VINDICATED AND PLEASED THAT SOMEONE ELSE SHARED MY ENTHUSIASM FOR THIS HITHERTO LOST CLASSIC OF THE PROG ROCK SOUND.
YEARS AGO I HALF HEARTEDLY TRIED TO TRACK DOWN THE MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP BUT GAVE UP TOO QUICKLY, LAST WEEK WHEN I SAW THE COPY ON EBAY I RESOLVED TO HAVE ANOTHER GO, AFTER A BIT OF RESEARCH I FOUND A PHONE NUMBER FOR ONE OF THE GROUP, SUCCESS!, HE WAS SURPRISED AND DELIGHTED TO HEAR THAT SOMEONE WAS A FAN OF HIS OLD GROUP AND HE GLADLY TOLD ME SOME OF THEIR STORY.
IN 1974 THE BAND HAD BOOKED A RECORDING SESSION AT A GLASGOW STUDIO TO RECORD A TWO TRACK SINGLE, HOWEVER, THE ENGINEER TOLD THEM THAT THE TIME THEY HAD BOOKED WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE AN ALBUM IF THEY WANTED TO, SO THEY DULY DID, RECORDING THE FIVE TRACKS THAT THEY HAD ALREADY WRITTEN AND A SIXTH TRACK WHICH WAS AN IMPROVISED JAM, THEY THEN HAD THE LP PRESSED BY THE GLASGOW LABEL THOR. THIS LABEL DID NOT SIGN OR PROMOTE BANDS, THEY WERE MERELY A CUSTOM OR IF YOU LIKE A VANITY LABEL, BANDS OR ARTISTS WOULD TAKE THEIR RECORDINGS TO THEM AND THEY WOULD PRODUCE AN LP, WHAT THE BAND DID WITH THE LP AFTER THAT WAS UP TO THEM. THERE WERE 250 COPIES PRESSED AND ALL WERE SOLD AT THE BANDS GIGS.
OBVIOUSLY WHEN I PHONED I HAD HOPED THAT HE WOULD HAVE A BOX OF UNPLAYED COPIES THAT I COULD BUY!, NO SUCH LUCK, HE ONLY HAD HIS OWN PERSONAL COPY AND AS I SAID BEFORE ALL THE REMAINING COPIES WERE SOLD AT GIGS, HOW MANY REMAIN?, WHO KNOWS?, MANY COPIES WILL HAVE FALLEN BY THE WAYSIDE IN HOUSE MOVES OR SIMPLY BINNED AS PEOPLE GOD RID OF THEIR OLD RECORDS THAT THEY NO LONGER WANTED.
SO THERE WE HAVE IT, A TRUE LOST CLASSIC, AND RARE FOREVER, TAKE A BOW CAPTAIN MARRYAT,YOU DESERVE A BIT OF RECOGNITION AT LAST.
CAPTAIN MARRYAT "CAPTAIN MARRYAT". 1974 UK THOR LABEL ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING VINYL LP. STEREO. LAMINATED FLIPBACK SLEEVE. THE CATALOGUE NUMBER IS 1007. THE THIN FRAGILE COVER JUST HAS SOME LIGHT HANDLING WEAR, NOTHING SERIOUS, NO TEARS OR WRITING, THE DISC IS IN CLEAN SHAPE WITH ONLY A VERY FEW LIGHT SURFACE MARKS, NICE COPY OVERALL, EX-/EX CONDITION, COVER GRADED FIRST, THEN THE DISC.
VERTIGO ISLAND HARVEST PROG PSYCH PROGRESSIVE PSYCHEDELIC POKORA DERAM