UK POP PSYCH HOLY GRAIL "FIRE" MAGIC SHOEMAKER 1970 CONCEPTUAL KALEIDOSCOPE
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RARE .... BASEMENT UNDERGROUND ACID-ROCK
GUARANTEED (NUMBERED) LIMITED EDITION ORIGINAL
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~ FIRE ~
" The Magic Shoemaker "
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Korea - Si - Wan
STONE MINT ...
Long out of print (issue as a limited edition over 20 years ago) We found this "Si Wan" deluxe pressing to faithfully reproduce the sound of the first print to the point where one doesn't have to depend on locating the unfortunate $800 to $1000 cost of the 1970 UK original.London trio Dave Dave Lambert (vocal, guitar, keys), Dick Dufall (bass, vocl) and Bob Voice (drums, vocal) had impressed the Beatles’ Apple label sufficiently to score a deal that resulted in the classic psych A-side “Father’s Name Is Dad”. The marriage was not a happy one, though, and Fire soon found themselves at odds with the music industry at large. Retiring to the suburbs, Lambert spent a year writing and demo-ing the songs for The Magic Shoemaker, based around a whimsical children’s bedtime story in which a shoemaker cobbles together a pair of shoes that unexpectedly allow the wearer to fly. These are loaned to a king whose country is threatened with war by a neighboring state; when the king confronts his opposite number from the sky the latter’s army are spooked and a peace treaty is forthcoming. In its own quirky homespun fashion it works.
The premise of the MAGIC SHOEMAKER album is that the narrator tells the story to a group of kids on a bus ride (real kids’ voices, overdubbed travel noises). Short pieces of the narrative occur between and within the songs whose lyrics broadly parallel episodes in the tale, some closely, others in more abstract fashion. Musically the songs follow a basic guitar-driven pop-psych-rock template, varying widely in style and tempo – "Tommy" would undoubtedly have been an influence – with frequent psychedelic studio enhancement, particularly on the opening “Tell You A Story”, “Only A Dream” and the long instrumental coda of “Reason For Everything”. Pick of the bunch for us is “I Can See The Sky” with its raw freakbeat vibe, but they’re all quite engaging. Lambert’s lead vocal, somewhere between Daltrey and Bowie, is sometimes somewhat over-affected, but the musicianship is excellent throughout with the basic guitar trio being complemented by Lambert’s modest keyboards and plenty of top-drawer lead guitar work from himself and Velvet Opera’s Paul Brett. Future Strawbs partner Dave Cousins makes a cameo appearance on the superfluous ditty “Happy Man Am I”. The production by Pye’s Ray Hammond is unsophisticated to charming reaches and its contemporary favoring of stereo separation and reverb suits the project and the interleaving of songs and narration is seamless.
Predictably, The Magic Shoemaker tanked well and truly on its release on Pye in 1970, being too late for psych and too odd for prog, and subsequently became a much-sought-after rarity fetching now up to $1000. As an interesting epilogue, after a long and successful association with the Strawbs, Lambert reformed Fire for a one-off concert in 2007, performing Shoemaker in extended form including the earlier psych sides and other unreleased songs.
Children of Imagination (Intro)
Tell You a Story
Magic Shoes
Reason for Everything
Only a Dream
Flies Like a Bird
Like to Help You If I Can
I Can See the Sky
Shoemaker
Happy Man Am I
Children of Imagination
CONDITION: The cover: rated: MINT...no problems anywhere, flat & square with 4 sharp corners, absolutely fresh appearance -- there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... VERY collection worthy ...
The vinyl: Rated: MINT looks as little played as it is ... far out sounds from the UK underground sound ... clean custom FIRE labels
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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