RARE Folk PSYCH LP Jake Holmes Led Zeppelin

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Welcome to my Psych, Prog, Oddball LP sale!! See my other ads for more strange and exotic LPs... "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes...MEGA RARE Folk/rock psych LP on US issue Tower Records 1967 stereo...The jacket has some storage wear and minor ring wear,some starting seam splits on the top of the jacket, BUT overall in very good to very good minus condition....The Record has some light scratches, but played perfectly without any skips. There was some minor surface noise thoughout- but very very minor- the only time that surface noise seemed a bit noticeable was on the Dazed and Confused" track- well it is acoustic and has a lot of quiet passages on it Remember this is 3 guitars and a singer, so surface noise would happen even on a MINT copy!!! But I do grade visually, and so this rated a very good to very good plus.....I use Goldmine Magazine's strict guidelines for grading records...This is part of a collector's hell- he would buy the LPs used, put the jacket in a poly outer sleeve, and place the LP in a poly lined inner sleeve, then store it, NEVER playing it!!!...If it was still sealed, he'd never open it, just store it....Mailed in a special Hard cardboard LP mailer for the safest ride to your house...I will combine auction wins to save you postage, but please let me know.. Also I do want to MOVE these out of here, so please complete all the combined auctions in a 2 week period if possible...Overseas buyers please note that many countries have a 4 pound MAXIMUM on air mail packages, so there is a 4 to 5 LP limit on each shipment. And luckily NO packages have been lost via airmail overseas. Please check the US Post Office internet site for package restrictions and prices... Personnel: JAKE HOLMES vcls, gtr TED IRWIN gtr RICK RANDALL gtr ALBUMS: 1(A) THE ABOVE GROUND SOUND OF JAKE HOLMES (Tower ST5079) 1967 Jake Holmes released his first album in 1967. It's an extraordinary psychedelic folk/rock masterpiece, then described as "a songwriter, three guitars and a mirror". The guitars of Holmes, Ted Irwin and Rick Randle (not the Brain Police guy) are the only backing of Holmes' voice and the ten short tracks are oustanding, especially the original version of Dazed And Confused, which was later literally stolen by Led Zeppelin. This album was produced by Maximillian Productions and Holmes wrote on the back sleeve liner notes "Rick has two extra eyes. He can't word what he sees, but I hear what he sees when he plays". Ted Irwin would later play with Elliot Murphy, Roy Buchanan and various country singers. (Stephane Rebeschini) ...One of many journeyman New York folk-rock singer/songwriters of the late '60s, Jake Holmes, if he's remembered at all, is known as the author and original performer of "Dazed and Confused." It is still not widely recognized that he wrote and recorded the first version of this song on his 1967 solo debut album, prior to it being covered (in concert) by the Yardbirds, and then becoming one of the most famous numbers in Led Zeppelin's repertoire. A big part of why that's not widely recognized is that Holmes, for murky reasons, was not credited as a writer on Led Zeppelin's recording, which gave sole author credits to Jimmy Page. (PLEASE NOTE THAT THE later YARDSBIRDS released a CD compile about 5 years ago, and did give Jake FULL credit for the song!!)For that accomplishment alone, Holmes is worthy of a footnote, even if nothing else he wrote or released was up to the level of that song. Holmes had worked in a group with fellow folk-rock singer/songwriter Tim Rose before going solo. "Dazed and Confused" was on Holmes' 1967 debut LP The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes, which had an odd, edgy folk-rock sound built around a drumless trio, featuring Holmes' rapid rhythm guitar strums and Ted Irwin's spidery acid folk-jazz-lead guitar lines. "Dazed and Confused," heard in this folk-rock context, was given a much sparer arrangement than it would be gifted by Led Zeppelin. The rest of the album was an erratic cluster of songs that explored similar anxious moods with less power, sometimes changing gears into light comedy or melodramatic sentiment. The Yardbirds, with Jimmy Page on lead guitar, heard "Dazed and Confused" in August 1967 when Holmes opened for the band in New York. The group took a pretty radical rearrangement of it into their live set. Although they didn't release a studio version of it before their breakup in 1968, their live rearrangement can be heard on the Epic LP Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page, a 1968 recording that was briefly available in 1971 before being withdrawn (a superior live version from a March 1968 French TV broadcast subsequently circulated on the Cumular Limit compilation). When Led Zeppelin did it on their first album, with different lyrics but similar melodic and rhythmic ideas as the Holmes prototype, the songwriting credit was given to Jimmy Page. Holmes's second LP, 1968's Letter to Catherine December, expanded into orchestral backgrounds, though he and Irwin still supplied their distinctive guitar work. An even more erratic work than its predecessor, it still at times supplied some interesting acid folk-pop, particularly on "Leaves That Break," with its ferocious fuzz guitar. His subsequent albums for Polydor, however, were far more ordinary, even sub-ordinary, singer/songwriter music with country influences, sometimes painfully exposing the limits of his vocal range and timbre. Holmes never profited from the worldwide success of Led Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused," but he did strike gold as a writer of commercials with one of his jingles, the famous U.S. Army ad with the "be all that you can be" refrain. Holmes' LPs (especially the first two, on Tower) are now hard to find AMG REVIEW: Holmes' first album will always be primarily known for the inclusion of the original version of "Dazed and Confused," the same song that, with substantial alteration to its arrangement, would become one of Led Zeppelin's major showpieces. Holmes' original is quite different and worthy in its own right: a stark, spooky folk-rock track with stinging reverbed lead guitar, Holmes' own pained vocals, and furiously strummed rhythm guitar that winds itself into an anguished climax. Unfortunately, it's by far the best song on the LP, though the tense rapid rhythm guitar and disembodied acid folk mood (by a drumless lead guitar/rhythm guitar/bass trio) are constant throughout the disc. Ted Irwin's spiky, jazz acid folk lead guitar lines are like a garage-ish version of those by frequent Tim Buckley accompanist Lee Underwood. Holmes' thin voice was recorded in a way that makes it sound curiously muffled and disembodied, which both adds to the weirdness of the weirder parts and detracts from the record's overall power. His songwriting, too, is erratic, sometimes reaching a reasonably effective level of haunting loneliness, at others descending into bathos (particularly on the closer, "Signs of Age"). Richie Unterberger 1. Lonely 2. Did You Know 3. She Belongs to Me 4. Too Long 5. Genuine Imitation Life (Holmes) 6. Dazed and Confused (Holmes) 7. Penny's 8. Hard to Keep My Mind on You 9. Wish I Was Anywhere Else 10. Signs of Age ....Here's an interview segment with the greta drummer Jim McCartey:::On August 25, 1967 the Yardbirds caught an acoustic act fronted by Jake Holmes at the Village Theatre in New York's Greenwich Village. With its descending bass line, jittery lyrics and dramatic caesuras, the Yardbirds knew they were onto something. The very next day Jim McCarty bought Holmes' album, The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes. "We played with Jake in New York and I was struck by the atmosphere of 'Dazed and Confused.' I went down to Greenwich Village and bought his album and we decided to do a version," McCarty said. "We worked it out together with Jimmy contributing the guitar riffs in the middle. Don't you think he's the riff-master?" Apparently, Page also bought the album the same day. According to Yardbirds historian Greg Russo, a certain John Alusick witnessed Jimmy Page purchasing it at Bleecker Bob's Record Store on Bleecker Street. The Yardbirds quickly set about adapting the song that had captured their collective imagination. Yardbirds singer Keith Relf rewrote the lyrics while drummer Jim McCarty and Jimmy Page expanded the song structure itself. The song stuck to the original arrangement until the bridge. Even at this point, the fret tapping acknowledged Holmes' original. Then Page threw in some eerie effects, bowing his guitar like a violin. Whereas a violin's neck is curved, a guitar neck is flat. Consequently, Page was only able to bow a couple strings at a time to produce an bizzare melody. When he bowed all six strings, the effect was startling. Strange moaning and whooping sounds were produced. This was a gimmick he had incorporated into his bag of tricks back in his studio days. He had first used it on two tracks on the Little Games LP, "Glimpses" and "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor." Page was not the first guitarist to use a violin bow. He was a favorite session musician of famed producer, Shel Talmy. Talmy had used Page on session work for the Who and the Kinks among others. One of Talmy's pet projects was a band called the Creation. Eddie Phillips, lead guitarist of said group, had employed a violin bow on his guitar on two 1966 singles, "Painter Man" and "Making Time." It's worth musing over whether Page ever happened to see Phillips use the violin bow in the studio. ....shyney; BUT he did steal this from Philliups, as he was using the bow effect in concert in 1966- LONG before Jimmy... Also for many years the "Dazed And Confused" Jake Holmes version made its rounds on bootleg recordings crediting this to John Paul Jones with Jeff Beck!!!....