MINT SHRINK Holy Grail 1967 CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND "NO WAY OUT" FUZZ PSYCH ROCK

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• TOP COPY
•  thee ...ORIGINAL 1967 stereophonic ... 
• FUZZ PUNK SNARL ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
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•  THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND 
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• " NO WAY OUT "
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• USA - TOWER RECORDS - ST- 5096  STEREOPHNIC
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  MINTY CLEAN 
• IN 
• FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER !
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  final collection copy 
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• Original 1967 first pressing on the famously collected TOWER Records label....
• Contains the stunning stereophonic production (most '67 pressings of this album were pressed in MONO) dynamic big beat punch - suitable for the sounds of the sixties!
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• The CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND released their first of three albums in September of 1967 when "No Way Out" came at the end of the band's first 15 months of existence. Their 60's period released four singles and three long-play albums of generally extraordinary quality, and as good as anything heard from any garage band anywhere during the golden sixties. 
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• "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" and "No Way Out," are the core of this, their first, immensely powerful LP. Also highlighted are the group's nicely cranked-up "Come On" (obviously influenced by the Rolling Stones' debut single, which was, itself, a good trick, since the latter had never seen a U.S. release in any form) and the psychedelic Bo Diddley-beat styled "Gone and Passes By". The other six tracks are highs including "Let's Talk About Girls," "In the Midnight Hour," and "Hot Dusty Road," ...then the band submerge into psychedelia in "Expo 2000" and "Dark Side of the Mushroom," and finally, the bizarre "Gossamer Wings," a psychedelic digression that used the band's basic track from the 1966 single B-side "Loose Lip Sync Ship" as its jumping-off point. 
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• All of that said, No Way Out is an extremely impressive and timeless album that nicely straddles the garage punk and psychedelic genres; the Chocolate Watchband's "Come On" still gets this reviewer's pulse bouncing to the rock bands heated beat; it and the other cuts are highly potent, slashing, exciting, clever pieces of music. "Gone and Passes By" and "No Way Out" are sharp works of psychedelic punk music, the former mixing sitar music with a shimmering Bo Diddley beat to superbly seductive effect, while the latter is built on a twisting, jagged blues- and raga-based lead guitar line that recalls the late-1966 vintage Jefferson Airplane's work. And "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" is a stirring, even threatening anthem to youthful defiance. Of the rest, "Let's Talk About Girls" is still a very good track and a killer opener for the album, "In the Midnight Hour" and "Hot Dusty Road" are not too far behind. "Dark Side of the Mushroom" and "Expo 2000" are very effective slices of psych. 
• Overall the album remains an essential '60s teen-scene raver album, a must have any collection.
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1.                  CONDITION:
2. The cover: rated: MINT NICE IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP! ...solid all over! There are No seam splits, no writing, no bends, full original 1967 colors remain.. The 58 years looks young old cover remains a brilliant visual artifact of psychedelic punk snarl
   

1. The vinyl: Rated: M- very clean TOP COPY! Smooth and clear groovy-groooves playing enjoyably clean throughout as a fantastic investment collectible! The 58 years is well kept vinyl remaining a brilliant audio artifact of the psychedelic 60's punk snarl