TARANTULA (Self-Titled) - A&M SP4202 (LP - Monarch Pressing - VG+/VG++)
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TARANTULA (Self-Titled) - A&M SP4202 (1969)
Tarantula was a California-based quintet with a strong psychedelic bent, co-founded by bassist/singer Oz Bach of Spanky & Our Gang with Thad Maxwell (lead guitar, vocals), Tom Grasso (keyboards, vocals), Mike Edelman (electric flute, sax, vocals), and Steve Swirn (drums). They were heavily influenced by the early work of Frank Zappa and had a jazzy feel to their playing as well, and also found room for folk-rock elements in their sound. Tarantula cut one self-titled album, produced by Chad Stuart of Chad & Jeremy, for A&M in 1968 and issued a single, "Love Is for Peace" b/w "Billy the Birdman" the following year. Their psychedelic songs showed superior musicianship, especially Maxwell's fuzztone guitar and Grasso's heavy organ playing, and Edelman may have been one of a handful of rock musicians outside of the Blues Project's Andy Kulberg to use an amplified flute. Their spaced-out lyrics and odd song titles helped add to the mix, but they never got a foothold on success and disbanded at the end of the 1960s.
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