SCARCE LONG GONE LTD ED TAMUN SHUD "GOOLUTIONITES" - HARD PSYCH "MONSTER" 1972

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             AMAZING WORLD CLASS PSYCHEDELIC LEGEND
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                      TAMUN SHUD
     
"GALOOTIONITES and the Real PEOPLE"

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                           AUSTRIA - SYNTON - T-9907


Super - scarce  second pressing with triple thick platter ... the regrettable second and LAST album by the mighty TAMUN SHUD.

Rarely turning up - the first press has recently sold for up to a whopping $1500.00 ... for good reason, the album is a thoroughly enjoyable world-class rarity, featuring originality, execution and infectious creativity ...

Hard as it may be to believe, this album, which starts with a soporific hymn to an exploding world, gentle breezes and "bee-yoo-tiffull trees …" was directly influenced by the regular ingestion of mind-bending psychedelics. "I love you, I love you, I love you, Jill," singer and songwriter Lindsay Bjerre exclaims on I Love You All. He then moves swiftly on to consider Yvonne, and wonders, frankly, what's going on? Guitars wail and drums crunch, a wobbly great bass thuds as you try to imagine quite how much open-ended fun and games it must have been in the mighty Shud as the 60s melted deliciously and noisily into the 70s.

Some years previously Tamam Shud (named after an unidentified fatality that became one of Australia's most treasured mysteries) had been The Sunsets, a pleasingly competent surf-pop group. In late 1966 they were offered a three-month slot at a local nightclub and after gigging night after night they found themselves to be tighter than a gnat's tightest spot. By early summer of 1967 the whole band would take LSD together, listen to imported LPs by Jefferson Airplane and Love and jam until their brains hurt. They had, as the local free sheet noted, "taken up the San Francisco sound of the Doors and Jimi Hendrix" and done it with some style. They landed a deal with CBS and released their debut in 1969. Evolution and that would sell 7,000 copies – a huge amount for an Australian underground album at the time  --- when in early 1971 they followed it up with this, their ecology-themed masterpiece, "GALOOTIONITES and the Real PEOPLE".

"Walk naked through the season," Bjerre sings with a wavering baritone on A Plague, "modesty's no reason why, for shame was brought from evil and evil feeds on the unclean mind …" Well, quite.

The gem "Stand in the Sunlight" is a brilliant execution into a grimacing array of guitar nirvana, while the George Harrison friendly strum-a-long Take a Walk on a Foggy Morn manages to be even better than its title suggests. The LP's monstrous centerpiece, Heaven Is Closed, was Berra's attempt to capture the amazing awareness of an acid trip; "One minute it's flowers and bells," he explained years later. "The next it's terrifying …" It truly is, but hair-raising, buzz-strangling moments aside, this really is a wonderful record that was, despite the success of their debut, seemingly nailed to the shelves and the band split in 1972 leaving listeners, like us, craving for more....

CONDITION: The cover: rated: "EX" (excellent) has a bumped top right corner due to unfortunate shipping mishandling with a very fragile cover such as this. Just the same, it still serves as a worthy collectible - especially in light of how impossible it will be to ever score that elusive original issue - oh so wishful that may be ... There are no delete marks, no split seams, and no writing  ... VERY collection worthy item with sound quality as brilliant as the first press - we checked this fact out!! ...

The vinyl: Rated: M- rare as it is (and it is!) it's easily the Best copy around, anywhere... very thick/heavy 180 gram issue ...and both labels are very clean...               

A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record