RARE 1968 UK Orig SECOND HAND "REALITY" HEAVY BLUES ROCK PSYCH + PROG (READ
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- RARE UK ORIGINAL 1968 FIRST PRESS
- HEAVY BLUES ROCK
- & EARLY PROG PSYCH
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- SECOND HAND
- "Reality"
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- "made in England" - POLYDOR Records - 583045
"Reality" released in 1968 was the first full-length studio album by underground the UK psychedelic/progressive rock act Second Hand.
The album, ahead of its time, was released in late 1968 through Polydor Records. The origins of Second Hand began in 1965 with three school friends forming a band which was initially called The Next Collection. When Polydor Records signed the band they had changed their name to "The Moving Finger", but while recording "Reality" they found out that another band had already taken the name and they were therefore once again forced to change their name. This time to Second Hand. During the recording of "Reality", bassist Arthur Kitchener left Second Hand after recording about half of the songs, and new bassist Nick South therefore recorded the remaining bass tracks.
Stylistically the music is heavily influenced by hard rock/blues rock bands like The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream but in addition to that heavy guitar dominated sound Ken Elliott´s vintage keyboards/organ are a trademark of Second Hand´s sound. Elliott is also the lead vocalist and he has a pretty standard and time typical blues rock singing style. He occasionally sings more melodic and less raw when the songs are also less heavy and guitar driven. The songwriting is decent but most tracks are relatively straight forward rock/blues rock songs which aren´t anything out of the ordinary for the genre or the time. The exceptions are the "Mainliner" and "Reality" tracks which together form a 15 minutes long suite, which features a lot of progressive songwriting ideas. It´s arguably one of the earliest examples of a progressive rock track (although artists like The Moody Blues and Procol Harum also had contemporary releases out which flirted with progressive rock), but other than that suite "Reality" isn´t a progressive rock album, it's more underground rock/blues and surprisingly very good !
A Fairy Tale
Rhubarb!
Denis James the Clown
Steam Tugs
Good Old '59 (We Are Slowly Gettin' Older)
The World Will End Yesterday
Denis James (Ode to D.J.)
Mainliner Reality
The Bath Song
- CONDITION:
- The cover: rated: ( on purpose, ring wear)= per the group gimmick being Second Hand = the covers were all purposely worn by Polydor (noted ^ above) ...still fragile UK made, the purple/mauve cover is solid, no faded areas, including without delete marks, no split seams, and without writing
- The vinyl: Rated: M- plays nice audio throughout, no surface issues and both UK Polydor labels are clean
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