MINTY 1969 ORIG ● BOB SEGER SYSTEM ● NOAH Hard Gritty Garage Psych THEIR RAREST

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• RARE 1969 ORIGINAL
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      FIRST PRESSING LIME GREEN CAPITOL !
  
    gritty fuzz~rock
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• The BOB SEGER SYSTEM
  
  "NOAH"

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• USA - lime green CAPITOL - ST 236
  
  FINAL COLLECTION COPY
  
  1969 FIRST and ONLY PRINT!
      RAREST and BEST if for only "CAT"
  
      RARE & sought.... Original 1969 first and ONLY pressing on the lime green Capitol label that was only in print some 18 months...
  
  
      "Noah"was never reissued, mysteriously the LP Bob Seger hated, so it was never brought back to life as a reissue. That's unfortunate, being a great album, and as a result, decent condition copies have been spotted as high as $150+ in collector circles ... but much of the story behind the album has never entirely been explained ...one thing for certain, the album contains 6+ minutes of one of the The Seger Systems' weirdest trips, called "CAT" ~ a psycho screamin Seger howler if there ever was....
  
      Bob Seger suffered a bit of a breakdown shortly after Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, so he decided to bring this cat aboard named Tom Neme, a guitarist/vocalist, into the Bob Seger System to help lighten the load and share the burden.
      Thing is, Neme wound up taking over the band. It's hard to tell whether Seger endorsed his mutiny or if he was just so disinterested that he didn't put up a fight, but all the same, the second Seger album, Noah, is one strange affair. Neme replicates Seger's hard-driving rock songs several times throughout the album. Of course, Seger can still tear it up with "Innervenus Eyes," and he delves deeper into darkness than he ever has with the weirdly intense, claustrophobic closer, "Death Row."
  
      Noah introduces a twist when The Bob Seger System featured this cat named Tom Neme as a singer/songwriter working together with Seger. To be fair, Neme isn't half bad as a role player, but he's a far, far cry from Seger. One man (Seger) is destined for greatness, and you can hear it in every syllable; Neme is just working up the vinyl. Seger has said that Neme was hired onto 'the Seger System' as a musician when Seger decided he couldn't sing and play guitar at the same time.
  
      Seger: "...we got this guitar player named Tom Neme. And then Neme came up with all these songs that he wanted to do. At that point, I was really tired. I wanted to quit. That was when I enrolled in college....
  
      "I didn't have anything to do with that album. 'Noah,' the song, and one or two others, I wrote, a lot of it during that long break between albums."
  
      The great cover photo of Seger, presumably taken in an alley in Ann Arbor
  
      The liner notes try to explain the appearance of the band member named: Neme the Usurper: "THE BOB SEGER SYSTEM -- FIVE! The first album was trio, this album is more in many respects. It's more sound, it's more guts, it's more soul and it's more conflict..."Conflict between two very different types of music. Side 1 is Bob Seger -- moody, dynamic, human." ... "Side 2 is influenced by Tom Neme, a new and important addition to The System. It is this influence that is creating change. Seger will always be Bob Seger, any change must come from The System and Tom Neme."
  
      Tracks:
  
      The album contains four songs with a Seger writing credit: "Noah" (with the memorable and late-'60s-era phrase "re-synthesize your own ego") and "Death Row," both of which Seger wrote alone, along with "Innervenus Eyes" and "Cat," credited to Seger, Honaker and Perrine.
  
      "Innervenus" is an absolute killer rocker with terrific Seger vocals. "Death Row" is also a powerful rocker. Since it was the flip of "2+2=?," it may have been a holdover from the first album. It certainly seems to have a different production quality.
  
      Neme's "Lonely Man" is also classic, for one reason: Seger does the vocals. The same is not true, however, on other Neme cuts, such as "Jumpin' Humpin' Hip Hypocrite" -- it's just ridiculous to hear Seger doing the back-up vocals on this.
  
      "Cat" is the highlight ~~ a long (6:20) psych-out with drums and studio effects, centered around the singer's attempt to pick up a clueless hippie girl named Cat. The words -- you can't call them lyrics -- could have been improvised during the recording session; the delivery goes from ultra cool and hip to gettin'-it-on orgasmic grunts and moans all frayed in a dense beat with percussion and effects, a real howler within the 6+ minutes.
  
      Seger: "'Noah' is about...'Lay back, you've had your fun. Let them do it for a while.'
  
      Noah
  
      Innervenus Eyes
  
      Lonely Man
  
      Loneliness Is a Feeling
  
      Cat
  
      Jimpin' Humpin' Hip Hypocrite
  
      Follow the Children
  
      Lennie Johnson
  
      Paint Them a Picture Jane
  
      Death Row

1.                  CONDITION:
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3. The cover: rated: near M- this IS a beauty ... this particular cover (LP) IF found at all, usually has much wear ...
4. no wear here = flat, square, four sharp corners ... there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing

1. The vinyl: Rated: near M- clean ... will play flawlessly ... this is your copy, most likely you won't find a better original, it's 54 years long lost SEGER rarest and *best* LP! - both lime green Capitol labels are clean