Eire Apparent Sunrise Vinyl LP
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Description
Eire Apparent - Sunrise LP (Vinyl) UK Buddah 1969 10 Track Matrix A1/B1 Produced by Jimi Hendrix
Media Condition: Near Mint
Sleeve Condition: Good – some slight creasing at corners
A1 / B1 engraved in run outs
Eire Apparent were a band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, noted for launching the careers of Henry McCullough and Ernie Graham, and for having Jimi Hendrix produce this, their only album.
In 1967 the band moved to London and were signed by ex-Animal Chas Chandler and Mike Jeffery, who changed the band's name from ‘The People’ to 'Eire Apparent' - Jeffery wanted to exploit the Irish dimension and his wife came up with the new name.
Eire Apparent were briefly signed to Track Records, who also handled Chandler and Jeffery's protégé Jimi Hendrix, and recorded one single, "Follow Me" / "Here I Go Again," released in January 1968, before they left Track. Despite only having released the one single, Chandler and Jeffery sent them on tour to North America with headliners The Animals during February and March 1968. Things went well until, in Vancouver, Canada in mid February, McCullough was busted for possession of marijuana and sent back to Ireland, so guitarist Mick Cox, formerly of The Alleykatz and The End, flew out to take his place in the band. By May McCullough had joined Sweeney's Men in Ireland.
The new line-up continued to tour North America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Soft Machine, and held recording sessions in New York's Record Plant studio with Hendrix in May (probably taping their next single "Let Me Stay" / "Yes I Need Someone"). The album Sunrise was mostly cut in late October 1968 in Los Angeles, with Jimi Hendrix producing. Hendrix also played on a number of tracks (including "Yes I Need Someone" and "The Clown"), whilst Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell and Robert Wyatt are also credited (Redding and Wyatt singing on "1026" and/or "The Clown"). The album was released on Buddah Records in the US and the UK in May 1969.
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