Tomorrow featuring Keith West Original 68 Parlophone LP

	£		148
	$		196

Tomorrow Featuring Keith West

Catalogue Number: PMC 7042

Matrix Number Side 1: XEX 667-1

Matrix Number Side 2: XEX 668-1

Made In: UK 1968

Vocals- Keith West, guitar- Steve Howe, bass- John "Junior" Wood, drums- John Adler "Twink"

Tomorrow was one of the most innovative of the late 1960s British "psychedelic" groups." Keith West, Steve Howe and John Wood had all been in the In Crowd that had released a few singles while Twink joined from the Fairies.

Tomorrow is a 1968 album by the English psychedelic rock group Tomorrow. It was originally released by EMI Parlophone in the U.K. in a black and white sleeve. A slightly different version of the album was also released in the U.S. in 1968 as Sire Records SES 97012, one of the first releases on that label. Although it was not a success when first released it is now widely regarded as one of the best psychedelic rock albums ever made.

The lack of commercial success can be explained by the long delay between initial recording sessions in spring 1967 and final release in February 1968. By the time the album arrived in record stores the psychedelic trend had already started to die out. EMI provided a very small recording budget and would not allow prints of a colour album cover to be made, although some later re-issues were printed with a modified colour cover.

Tomorrow was an exciting live act as the tracks on 50 Minute Technicolour Dream testify. They supported artists such as Jimi Hendrix who even jammed on stage with them at Brian Epstein's Saville Theatre. Pink Floyd had been a major influence on artists such as Twink who saw something different in the improvisation and light shows. Other influences came through Steve Howe's liking for jazz as well as the direction being supplied to everyone by the Beatles and the Byrds. The jazz influences can be heard on one of Tomorrow's earliest tracks, Why? At the same time vocalist Keith West had started writing his own material for the group. 

Tomorrow's own material started simple but contained different sounds thus making the tracks sound far more complex than they actually were. Drugs such as acid may have played a role in tracks such as Real Life Permanent Dream and Hallucinations. 

The group made two singles, one of which, My White Bicycle, is a British psychedelic classic. The other single was Revolution. These did not make an impact on the charts although the group did manage to build up a sizeable underground following. One of the group's earlier champions was disc jockey John Peel who played the first single extensively on his Perfumed Garden radio show. He also had a Night Ride session recorded early in 1968 which was broadcast although the tapes were subsequently lost or, in true BBC style, erased. 

The strength of the band live belied their poor commercial success. They were playing gigs most nights and became one of the hottest brands of the London scene alongside Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine. However, this did not always translate into success outside the capital. 

Keith West may be better known as a participant in the Teenage Opera project that gave him a solo hit single Excerpt from a Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack) and brief commercial success. This was part of an idea for all the members of Tomorrow to have parallel solo careers alongside tomorrow. However, the move to work on other projects pulled the group apart with Twink joining the Pretty Things and the Pink Fairies. Poor record sales did not help either. 

By spring 1968 the group was no more. Steve Howe later joined Yes. Incidentally, My White Bicycle was included on the Heavy Karma album by the Young Ones' Neil.  

Track Listing

Side 1

1. My White Bicycle
2. Colonel Brown
3. Real Life Permanent Dream
4. Shy Boy
5. Revolution

Side 2

1. Incredible Journey Of Timothy Chase
2. Aunty Mary’s Dress Shop
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. Three Jolly Little Dwarfs
5. Now Your Time Has Come
6. Hallucinations

Condition:
This album is nearly 42 years old. I have decided it is time to harden my heart and find new homes for my extensive record collection. This has been one of my all time favourite albums so I will be honest and say that it has been played a lot. However, it plays perfectly and has great sound quality. Visibly it does have a few scuffs and scratches but this does not affect the sound quality and there are no jumps. The cover looks clean and bright with only a small tear on the top spine of about 2 inches which hardly notices.

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