RARE MID 70s PRIVATE LP HARD Prog psych TOPPER AT LAS
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RARE UNIQUE PRIVATE PRESS HARD ROCK COLLECTIBLE
TOPPER
At Last
\ USA - PRIVATE PRESS - SCOT RECORDS - NO. T9548
SUPER RARE Original mid 70's legendary first pressing of a sought after hard rock collectible from the Midwest
* Jim Hodges - lead vocals, drums, percussion
* Larry Watson - guitar, vocals
* Rudy Passonno - organ, piano, synthesizer, mellotron
* Jackie Barrett - bass
* Bob Brown - drums, percussion
This one is an interesting hardrock/synth-heavy 70s prog with a mild heavy rhythms, much more about infectious song hooks, melodies and creative use of old Moog than about virtuoso instrumentation. The synths are inventive and intense, and the instrumental bits are carefully composed. There’s nothing offhand or boring about this album. The vocalist falls somewhere between 60s hard rock and 60s soul shouter, and somehow fits this mix perfectly. All of these elements could add up problems, and it works. The last few songs flirt with heavy rock-style devilishness, including cool electronically altered vocals, but there’s also a surprising mildness to this music which works. The guitars are relatively sparse and tastefully low-key (no distortion on the rhythm guitars.) One song rips off “Stairway To Heaven,” in a cool way, something Led Zeppelin deserves for all of their own thievery, and adds mellotron to wonderful dramatic effect. This really doesn’t sound like anything else we know, and maybe some people out there will react to it in less dramatic fashion, but we sure can’t stop playing our copy.
Astral Plane *
Say What You Feel *
Smile For The Clown *
Phaze 1 (Prelude) *
Phaze 2 *
Devil's RX *
Hell's Fire*
CONDITION: The Cover: All around solid, of course the black cover is impossible to find without shelf wear after all these years...this one has light ring, not bad, a small ding at bottom right corner (minor) and back cover is CLEAN (no wear) but has 3 ink lines near song titles and small word "rock" otherwise real clean, all said VG+ to VG++ ...no split seams, no bends, no writing
The Vinyl: all glossy over both sides, visually near "EX" (excellent) (minor paper scuffs, nothig audible) plays clear and smooth M- and has clean custom labels
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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