EIRE APPARENT RARE 1969 HARD PSYCH ROCK JIMI HENDRIX
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RARE 1969 ORIGINAL U.S. FIRST PRESSING!
"EIRE APPARENT- SUN RISE"
1969 Buddah BDS 5031 label
The condition of the cover is VG++ with a drill hole in the upper left corner. There are no seam splits or writing! The condition of the disc is VG++ with a couple of light scuffs but plays great!
At the end of Oct 1968 Eire Apparent recorded the bulk of their debut album at TTG in Los Angeles, California. On Wed 30.10.1968, at Sunset-Highland Studios, Los Angeles, California, the band recorded 'Let Me Stay', 'Magic Carpet', 'Morning Glory', 'Mr Guy Fawkes' and 'Yes I Need Someone', while 'Captive In The Sun', and 'The Clown' (Hendrix added extra magic to this track) which were recorded on Wed 30.10.1968, also at Sunset-Highland Studios, plus 'Rock 'N' Roll Band' recorded on 5.1.1969, at Polydor Studios, London, all with Jimi Hendrix on guitar. This last session was produced by Carlos Olms. In fact he appeared on all the tracks 'Someone Is Sure To (Want You)' , except for 'Got To Get Away' and '1026' (produced by Jack Hunt). Hendrix produced the album they called Sun Rise, which was a crafted blend of poprock and psychedelic-rock. Hendrix had produced and played on their album as a consequence of Eire Apparent touring with him in the States.
For an album that never had a hit to drive it, Eire Apparent's Sunrise is amazingly well known by collectors, at least as an artifact among Jimi Hendrix fans, owing to the fact that the guitarist produced it (and played on parts of it). As it turns out, it's a pleasing, tuneful, and occasionally bold psychedelic pop/rock excursion, similar in many ways to the Yardbirds' Little Games album, except that Eire Apparent were apparently far more comfortable with psychedelic pop stylings here than Keith Relf, Jimmy Page, et al., were on that Yardbirds record. The mix of lyrical acoustic and electric guitar sounds, some tasteful arrangements and trippy lyrical conceits all works extremely well; this is a surprising psychedelic pop release, gently trippy most of the way through with a few searing contributions by Hendrix. Almost as important are the hints one gets of Ernie Graham's subsequent songwriting range in embryonic form on numbers such as "Rock & Roll Band" and "Magic Carpet" -- his work is rootsier and mostly more accessible than that of Mick Cox, the other major songwriter in the group (though he does make a pleasing contribution with "Let Me Stay"). Between their best songs, the group's overall musical facility, and Hendrix's contributions, the whole album ends up extremely strong and consistent, and well worth hearing on its own terms, even if it wasn't breaking any new ground musically. The record should have done better than it did, but its release by Buddah (which had virtually no presence in England) limited its overseas impact -- and, in any case, the group had lost most of its British audience by then. Also, American radio probably didn't know where to place it, since it straddled both popsike and psychedelic-rock categories (and in very bold terms), along with elements of roots rock. Juxtapose that with numbers like "The Clown" -- which plunged into heavy psychedelic in a popsike framework that distantly echoes both Hendrix's music and that of the Yardbirds of "Happenings Ten Years' Time Ago" -- and one can see the range this group had. It's all admirable music, but was apparently too tough to sell easily without a hit single to pull people in. And it's all still worth hearing, even four decades on.
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