LUV MACHINE Luv Machine LP REX 70 INTERNATIONAL 1971 ITA orig+foc RILP 000 RARE
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LUV MACHINE
An extremely obscure and short-lived casualty of the early-'70s British rock scene, Luv Machine performed a heavy brand of psych and acid rock with progressive tendencies, funky grooves, and a rather unique cultural perspective, thanks to the fact that its founding members, Michael Bishop (guitar, vocals), Bob Bowman (guitar, vocals), and Errol Bradshaw (drums, vocals), had only recently relocated from their West Indies home of Barbados. Bassist John Jeavons became the band's lone England-born member when original bass player Merlin Norville grew weary of living in the U.K. and departed the group. After only a few months of rehearsing, Luv Machine were slated to record their debut single, Witches Wand, by the end of 1970 -- but the sessions quickly expanded into the makings of a full album that Polydor released in March of 1971, and whose songs boasted an obvious debt to both Anglo and American inspirations like Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and Vanilla Fudge. Unfortunately, the label provided no promotional or financial support and the group quickly fell apart, leaving only that one album to wallow in cult status....
"LUV MACHINE"
[Released in the UK in 1971, the album was published in Italy only in March 1972]
1972 LP REX 70 INTERNATIONAL RECORDS RILP 000 STEREO
MADE IN ITALY ORIGINAL PRESSING
PROMOTIONAL(?) [cut-edge]
LAMINATED GATEFOLD COVER
[Italian version with different cover artwork. The vinyl is housed on the left panel]
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: REX 70 INTERNATIONAL - PINK LABEL w/BLUE ARTWORK - BLACK/BLUE TEXT
Catalog on cover: (inside right panel, top right) riLp000
Catalog on labels: RILP 000 A / RILP 000 B
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): RI-LP-000-A 28-3-72
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): RI-LP-000-B 28-3-72
On labels: rim text reads "All rights.......prohibited"
A Belsize Production
S.IA.E.(boxed)
D.R.
(on Side A): STEREOPHONIC SOUND
(on Side B): STEREOPHONICH SOUND
Rights Society: S.I.A.E. (printed on both sides and stamped on side A)
On inside panels: Notes, Tracklist & Credits
tracklisting
Side A: WITCHES WAND - YOU'RE SURPRISED - IT'S AMAZING
HAPPY CHILDREN - EVERYTHING - MAYBE TOMORROW
Side B: REMINISCING - CHANGE YOUR MIND* - CORRUPT ONE - LOST
MY LIFE IS FILLED WITH CHANGES - PORTRAIT OF DISGUST
*on label "CHANGE YOUR MIN"
grading
RECORD VG+ (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) (please, see pictures and read above description)
Of all the countless and egregious acts of extreme Cream worship committed to vinyl in the late ‘60s and very early ‘70s, few can compete with Luv Machine's eponymous debut of 1971. Indeed, though three of the four bandmembers had only just arrived in Swinging London from the far away island of Barbados, there was simply no disguising the overwhelming influence of Messrs. Clapton, Bruce, and Baker on most of their material. And this was especially true on the songs sung by guitarist Michael Bishop, whose soaring vibrato was quite simply the spitting image of Jack Bruce's, and thus rendered the likes of "Witches Wand," "It's Amazing," and "My Life Is Full of Changes" into virtual carbon copies -- albeit pretty good ones -- of the real deal. If not for brief deviations from type now and then -- such as the lead-booted proto-metal crunch of "Everything" and the psychedelic keyboard flourishes of "Lost" (think Iron Butterfly or Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride") -- Luv Machine would have been nothing more than unforgivable Cream clones through and through. But, thanks to that smidgeon of variety and the insatiable appetite of heavy psych collectors, the short-lived quartet with its resoundingly failed career has nevertheless enjoyed belated cultdom in the decades that followed...(AllMusic)
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