THE ROCKETS S/T 1968 US LP WHITE WHALE WWS 7116 CRAZY HORSE NEIL YOUNG RARE ORIG
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Description
The Rockets is the sole release by The Rockets in 1968.
Selling only about 5,000 copies, it was far from a success. Nevertheless, the album found among its fans Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, who would soon take Danny Whitten, bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina for his backing band on the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. They first dubbed themselves War Babies, but Young renamed them Crazy Horse, a name that would stick. The Rockets soon folded due to Young's insistence on having Whitten, Talbot and Molina keep to a strict practice schedule (although the group was honored by the subtitle of one of Young's songs from Everybody Knows this is Nowhere: "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)"). Talbot and Molina have remained as part of Crazy Horse to this day, and all of the other Rockets, except for Leon Whitsell, would eventually collaborate with Young.
"Hole in My Pocket" was released as a single. Whitten's "Let Me Go" was prominently covered by Three Dog Night on their 1968 debut. "Mr. Chips" was allegedly about Ahmet Ertedun's refusal to sign the band to Atlantic Records. The Rockets had been previously known as The Psyrcle on Lorna, a division of Autumn Records.
The record is shiny and clean with no visible defects. The heavy card jacket is clean with very minor light edge wear on the bottom and the lower left corner but is otherwise in really great shape for being 50 years old (see photos). Grading is visual only
Track listing
Side one
- "Hole in My Pocket" (Danny Whitten)
- "Won't You Say You'll Stay" (Danny Whitten)
- "Mr. Chips" (Danny Whitten)
- "It's A Mistake" (Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot)
- "Let Me Go" (Danny Whitten)
Side two
- "Try My Patience" (Leon Whitsell)
- "I Won't Always Be Around" (Leon Whitsell)
- "Pill's Blues" (George Whitsell)
- "Stretch Your Skin" (Leon Whitsell)
- "Eraser" (Leon Whitsell)
Shipped in a cardboard record mailer with cardboard inserts. LP's packed with inner sleeve outside the jacket, and in an additional inner sleeve outside printed inner sleeve (if printed inner sleeve present). All duties and taxes are the responsibility of the buyer.
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