LONG GONE re- SOUND CANADA "ROCKADROME" ROYAL AMERICAN 20th CENTURY BLUES Psych
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PSYCHEDELIC CLASSIC 1969 UNDERGROUND GLORY!
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ROCKADROME
Royal American 20th Century Blues
USA - SOUND CANADA - SC 7701
NOT SURE who's behind this release - it's an exact 2nd-issue from several years back, or more to the point, superior to the first press with a beautiful super-thick colorful cover and weight-heavy 180 gram platter. By far better than the 1969 pressing that, by the way, sells for up to $2000. So, most folks can't afford or can't find, so as this pressing plays on the same level....
This Toronto, Ontario, band's album is one of the rarest to come out of Canada. Musically, it's a mixture of psychedelia, blues and rock. Some tracks like Inside Out, Inside In and Royal American Twentieth Century Blues Reprise sound strongly influenced by The Beatles circa Sergeant Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour with a strong John Lennon sounding vocal. There's some nice guitar work on Thirteen Miles Down and a nice chimey intro to Good Dream.
A near-mint copy of Rockadrome's lone 1969 LP will probably set you back at least a month's rent. Recorded in the early months of 1969 at Art Snider's Sound Canada studios in Toronto and pressed up in very limited quantities, Royal American 20th Century Blues is an impossibly rare psych-rock curio highly worthy of anyone's prized collection, up there with similar rarities like Plastic Cloud, Jarvis Street Review, It's All Meat, etc.
ROCKADROME (guitarists Ron Dove and Mike Clancy, along with bassist Paul Lachapelle and drummer Rick Vallieres) formed in Toronto in 1968. Rockadrom's Royal American... seems to have one foot planted on either side of the Atlantic, flitting from Brit-infused freakbeat ('Very Strange') to acerbic West Coast guitar jams ('Thirteen Miles Down'), sometimes even in the same song (the amazing five-minute title track). Dove's Dylanesque whine on the jangly 'There You Go Again' should by rights be maddeningly annoying, but instead the song could almost be a long-lost Blond on Blonde outtake. And the sombre piano reprise that closes side two is a sober lament - almost frighteningly so - on our own royal American twentieth century futility. The record is not without its detritus, but still, how Royal American 20th Century Blues could have gone so unnoticed remains a mystery....
CONDITION: The cover: rated: Beautiful, MINT ...thick & colorful, all you would hope for and more! There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... VERY collection worthy ...
The vinyl: Rated: MINT ....perfect, shiny clear 180 gram thick pressing... Clean and glossy plays very enjoyable CLEAN audio ...both Sound Canada labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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