PROMO '70 ORIG FOOD FOREVER IS A DREAM GANDALF / COMMON PEOPLE Hazy PSYCH

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          ORIGINAL 1970 PRESSING

LEGENDARY DREAMY BAROQUE-PSYCH MASTERPIECE

               

                        ~ FOOD ~

         Forever Is A Dream

                  

                                        

           USA - (Lime Green) CAPITOL RECORDS - ST 304

ADVANCED RELEASE PROMOTIONAL ... D.J. Radio station copy ....

ON the LIME green Capitol label which explains why the LP is SO rare....

ORIGINAL 1970 first pressing highly rated for good reason ... this was a disc jockey/radio station copy that was little played or promoted, so you get a *MINT* vinyl ... unfortunately, as they were prone to do there are radio station call letters written on both sides of the jacket ...(full details below) but the main thing, the vinyl is MINT! 

Some records are so great that there is no way your brain will remember *how* great they are exactly. So you willfully leave them alone for several months (one year is even better), and when you take them out again to play them, you know you're going to have an even better time than last time. "Mysterious, wondrous masterpiece that most collectors dismiss as the little brother to the other Capitol monsters (Gandalf and Common People) when it's actually the best of the three. Intensely emotional and dramatic; these guys had a vision and multiple listens begin to reveal its depth. String-laden ballads hold hands with fleeting blasts of power chords. Bits and pieces that seem to have no purpose blend together to create a surprisingly coherent whole. It's hard to know if they even intended this to be a 'concept album,' but it's definitely a case of the whole being more then the sum of the pieces, good as the pieces are."
This one's always been somewhat of a mystery to us. First off, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of biographical info on these guys. They certainly didn't leave behind an extensive catalog. Besides, how come the cover shows four guys, while the liner notes and the back cover photo show the band to be a five piece ... who's missing on the cover? Chicago-based Food sported a line up consisting of keyboardist Ted Ashford, bassist Eric Scott Flipowitz, drummer Barry Mraz, singer Steve Whiteand guitarist Bill Wukovich. If you subscribe to the popular story they were discovered by the same outfit that found Grand Funk Railroad. Along with Grand Funk, they were signed by Capitol, but with Grand Funk generating strong sales, Capitol lost all interest in Food. Produced by Ashford "Forever Is a Dream" is pretty darned impressive. True, it may not be the year's most original offering, but with three of the five members contributing material, material such as the extended title track, "What It Seems To Be" and "Marbled Wings" is literally drenched in a dense and dreamy aura. It's all wrapped up in a series of attractive melodies, intriguing lyrics, coupled with plenty of fuzz guitar, whacked out drumming and interesting bits of orchestration, including some surprisingly nice horn charts ("No"). Elsewhere, on material such as "Native Prayers" and "Fountains of My Mind" vocalist White sounds like he's been partying pretty hard. Great headphone album !!!

Supposedly a couple of these songs were used in the soundtrack for the porn flick 'The Babysitters'.
 Forever Is A Dream (Ashford, White, Wukovich) - 6:51  Naive Prayers (Wukovich) - 3:47
  No (Ashford) - 2:48
  Lady Miss Ann (White, Wukovich) - 3:09
  Fountains Of My Mind (Ashford, White) - 3:09
  Coming Back (White, Wukovich) - 3:03
  What It Seems To Be (White) - 6:03
  Inside The Mirror (Wukovich) -
  Marbled Wings (Wukovich) - 2:22
Traveling Light / Leaves (Ashford, White, Wukovich) - 6:23
Here We Go Again (White) - 3:23

 

CONDITION: The cover is rated: VG+ radio station call lettters on both sides, otherwise a little wear, nothing much (see photo) there is a small stress crinkle at far left, no fraying, no bends, no writing, no split seams ... vinyl is mint ... very rare LP take it as it comes....

The vinyl is rated: Full of clear shine, rated M- TOP COPY, looks and plays beautiful ... both LIME green Capitol labels are spotless

                     

 

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SEE: SELLERS OTher items for more & more of similar cool sounds for "head" people...

 

EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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