FRANTIC Conception 1971 Vinyl LP RARE Hard Psych

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Mar 26, 2012 Sold Date

Mar 18, 2012 Start Date

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Lizard/Ampex Records 1971 vinyl LP. Record is MINT-/Jacket is VG++. No spindle marks or seam splits. TRACKS ARE: BABY WICKED WOMAN SCITNARF HEY JOE MORE OF A MAN LITTLE GIRL SHADY SAM HER AND HER MOUNTAIN MORNING DEW MIDNIGHT TO SIX MAN
The Frantic: Conception album is a really great early hard psych album. Never gets enough credit for being a truly landmark album from that particular time frame & location. It's every bit as good as albums from the Litter, The Moving Sidewalks, Frigid Pink or the Beacon Street. No wonder they were Frantic, this was a band with a personality crisis. Inspired by Beatlemania, the Frantics, as they were initially known, sprang out of the non-existent Billings, MT music scene. Numerous lineup shifts and a move to New Mexico ensued, before the band, then calling themselves Frantic, settled briefly in Oklahoma City in 1966. There they linked up with the Rascals and hit the road, eventually landing in NYC. When it all went south, the group returned to New Mexico before California beckoned. There, Frantic finally landed a deal with Lizard Records, resulting in their debut Conception album. Unfortunately, all those years touring hadn't helped the group develop their own sound, which remained beholden to their many idols, nor had it left them time for songwriting -- only half the set was penned by them. That said, the covers are the most astonishing tracks on the set. The high point is definitely "Hey Joe," built around Kim Sherman's melancholy surf guitar and Jim Haas' cathedral organ. A garage-psych take on the Doors "Little Girl" is different, if nothing else, while "Morning Dew" starts in poppy Jefferson Airplane territory before taking off towards British prog-dom. The Pretty Things' "Midnight to Six Man" gets the ultimate workout as the band bang through garage-psych into prog rock and British Invasion territory. The Yardbirds don't get covered, but do get an homage on Frantic's own "Scitnarf," featuring Dennis Devlin' rollicking harmonica. Of their own numbers, arguably "Shady Sam," with its Eastern influences and intriguing use of percussion, is the most interesting.

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