Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue Promo LP

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This is an original, never played, copy of a promotional LP I received from Caribou Records in 1977.  I was a music director for a major breakout radio station in the South at the time.  This LP is in Near Mint condition for the jacket and Mint condition for the LP.  It has never had a needle touch it’s surface.

This is the original Caribou (subsidiary of Columbia Records) Label with a big moose logo,  and is the WHITE promotional version.  It is first run and of the highest quality vinyl with a thickness of 7 on a scale of 1-10 at the time produced for radio stations.  This is original, authentic and a first U.S. Pressing.  It is NOT a reissue, import, or counterfeit pressing.   It is the original unipak-style cover (one side of the gatefold opens, the other on is a single-ply cardboard) There is slight wear on one corner as this has been stored in my personal possession since 1977.  See photos.

MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1E/-1E'.   

  This is a promotional copy of Dennis Wilson’s only issued solo project, Pacific Ocean Blue,  as Thom Jurek of Allmusic.com said: “it is certainly a product of its time, both musically and texturally. The set's 12 songs reveal a songwriter who was looking to stretch out on his own and engage a vision of music that stood far outside what the Beach Boys were capable of handling or executing. Wilson himself panned the album, claiming it had no substance, and looked forward to the release of Bamboo, a record that remained unfinished and unreleased at the time of his death. (Brother Brian, however, loved the album and celebrated it with his usual childlike intensity.) Pacific Ocean Blue is a moody view of the SoCal landscape, and of Wilson's own interior life -- or his struggle to have one. From the environmental lament, "River Song," that opens the disc, we can hear a new kind of West Coast music emerging. It's not steeped in the weighty philosophical and political concerns that other Angelenos such as Jackson Browne were penning. Instead, it's a wispy rock tune revolving around a beautiful piano figure, shuffling guitars, and lyrics that take a personal concern for the state of the nature crumbling around it. "Dreamer" is a classic piece of '70s rock as it wound itself around the emerging R&B of the time, with interlaced horn lines, synths, and funky basslines cutting through the bridge and into the final verses; all steeped in a gorgeous, lush groove that even at this relaxed tempo won't quit. Mostly, however, Pacific Ocean Blue is a diary. Given that it was recorded over nearly seven years, the songs reflect the snapshot quality of Wilson's life in the studio: what he was capable of, what he learned, and how he stretched himself. Take, for example, the tender stoner balladry of "Thoughts of You" and "Time;" with their languid, echoing piano hovering in the mix with a shadow presence as Wilson sings with a longing that is true, yet muted by his seeming resignation to things being a total loss. The latter track also features a moody trumpet solo reminiscent of Chet Baker and transforms itself into a horn-driven anthem by its nadir. This album is a classic, blissed-out, coked-up slice of '70s rock and pop that is as essential as Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. “