Sam Gopal - Escalator - RARE Psych Stable Records (
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Description
This rare example of 60s Psych is extremely difficult to find .The vinyl is in excellent condition (ex), and plays very nicely. The gatefold PS has some rubbing along the edges in places (see photos) and is graded as VG+.
This has the early textured surface PS which is notoriously difficult to find in mint condition
Original Stable release from 1969. (SLE 8001). A young Lemmy from Motorhead/Hawkwind was a group member.
11 tracks - Cold embrace / the dark Lord / The sky is burning / You're alone now / Grass / It's only love
Escalator / Angry faces / Midsummer night's dream / Season of the witch / Yesterlove
Sam Gopal (also called Sam Gopal's Dream) is an underground British Psychedelic rock band.
The band is named after its founder, Sam Gopal, born in Malaysia. From the age of seven, he played tabla, a northern Indian percussion that replaced drums in the band.
On 28 April 1967, the band performed at The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, a UK Underground event organised by the International Times at Alexandra Palace. The line-up was Sam Gopal on Tabla, Mick Hutchinson on guitar, and Pete Sears on bass guitar and organ. Other performing bands included Pink Floyd, The Pretty Things, Savoy Brown, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Soft Machine, and The Move. Sam Gopal Dream played at the UFO Club, The Electric Garden in Covent Garden (later to become Middle Earth), The Roundhouse, and Happening 44. They later played the Christmas on Earth Show at Olympia in London with Traffic, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd. Jimi Hendrix later sat in with the original Sam Gopal Dream at London's Speakeasy Club.
After the original band broke up in 1968, Sam formed a new line-up which included vocalist Lemmy. He was a singer-guitarist with Sam Gopal, before becoming the bassist of Hawkwind and, in 1975, the founder, singer and bassist of Motörhead.
Sam Gopal's album Escalator was recorded in 1968 and released in 1969
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