Brigg Lp self-titled Susquehanna Sound Records RARE 1972 hybrid ice FOLK PSYCH

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Rare 1972 private press on Susquehanna Sound Production Records.  This is the original issue.  They went on to be Hybrid Ice.  The record is NM+ and the cover in NM with some normal, minor edge and corner wear.

Here's some info from their Facebook Page.  Yes, they have a Facebook page.  I'm not sure why.



 Info

• Start Date Created in 1972
• Genre Psychedelic / folk / rock
• Band Members Rusty Foulke-Guitar, Vocals, Songwriter
  Rob Morse-Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Songwriter
  Jeff Willoughby-Bass, Vocals, Piano, Flute,Songwriter
• Hometown Danville PA
• Record Label LP 301 on SSP (Susquehanna Sound Productions)
• Short Description 1973 studio album project by high school friends from Danville PA including teen-aged members of Hybrid Ice & Rob Morse, writer of the acoustic songs.
• Long Description Over the past four decades, this album has become a collector's item worldwide. In the pre-Internet age, for a time, it was thought the band was Canadian and was they were written up in various magazines and later, websites as such. An illegal Italian vinyl bootleg only served to pique the curiosity about the origins of the band and their music.
• Bio BRIGG is the name of a studio album project recorded in 1973 by Rob Morse, Jeff Willoughby and Rusty Foulke. The three childhood friends had previously played together in two bands, The Whey and Stratus, in the late '60's. In their early teens, the boys played for mostly private parties and dances at the local YMCA concentrating more on performing popular covers by The Doors, Cream, Rolling Stones and The Beatles, than on original material.
  
  When Morse went away to school (Webster Academy, MA) in 1969, Foulke and Willoughby formed up another band, Part Two, with members of another local group. Part Two eventually went on to be called Hybrid Ice Company (they later dropped the 'Company').
  
  On hiatus from school in 1972, Morse and Willoughby got together and started working on material that Morse had written. Practicing in a basement where Hybrid Ice rehearsed the two put together enough material for one side of a predominantly acoustic album. A now-digitized single cassette copy of those live rehearsals still exists today.
  
  Morse and Willoughby asked Foulke to join them to round out the other side with material he had written. Foulke and Willoughby brought the members of Hybrid Ice into the project to perform the "electric" side of the album. They contacted a local radio station (WKOK, Sunbury, PA) engineer, Bob Spangler, who had just purchased a four track tape deck and console and was renovating a corner grocery store, Aunt Nellie's Food Store in Northumberland, PA, into a recording studio. The studio was crude at best, with pink insulation on the walls and cracks in the original wooden plank floors going through to the basement below.
  
  The three borrowed $1,800.00 for a package deal recording session which included a finite number of hours of recording and mixing time, a quantity of 12” vinyl LP copies with a color front cover and BRIGG was formed. At that point, the project had no name. Willoughby claims he saw the name, stenciled on drum cases, in a dream he had.
  
  After finishing recording, photos for the cover were taken in a purportedly haunted house in Danville, PA. The house has since been torn down, but was very close to a studio that Hybrid Ice later built in 1978. Of interest to note, the photos were taken by then Danville High School Art Teacher, Charles Berkey, brother of Jackson Berkey of Mannheim Steamroller fame.
  
  The cover was then put together by the band members themselves, the drawing of Aunt Nellie by Foulke and the layout by Willoughby. Another interesting point on the cover is that the photos of Morse and Foulke are identified incorrectly. While doing the paste up, the band members thought that the photos would look better if they were arranged differently. They gave the mechanicals to the record label to ship for printing, but forgot to switch the names under the pictures. Remember, this was all done by hand with physical photographs, drawings and stripped-in text. Computers didn’t exist yet.
  
  A total of 1,000 copies were pressed and sold primarily in Danville Senior High School, where Foulke had attended and graduated in 1972. Willoughby graduated a year later in 1973. Most copies were sold to friends and classmates during lunch period, complete with autograph sessions. Willoughby, Foulke and other members of Hybrid Ice took a trip to Henniker, New Hampshire in October, 1973 to deliver copies to Morse where he was attending New England College. The trio made the rounds to a few local record stores and placed copies for sale there, as well.
  
  After it's initial splash on the local scene, nothing much was heard about the album until 1990 when Morse was informed by a fan that the album had been illegally pirated on an Italian label in 1988. Subsequent investigations since then have turned up illegal CD's as well as poor quality vinyl reproductions. Requests for the original vinyl have come from all over the United States as well as European countries.
  
  Foulke, Morse and Willoughby never performed a live show as BRIGG.
  
  Where are they now?
  Jeff Willoughby performed with Hybrid Ice until July 31, 1996. He joined them again in 2002, when reunion shows were booked and performed with all the original recording members. Willoughby performed in those shows until 2008. He now teaches music, writes, records and produces his own projects, as well as others, and lives in Pennsylvania.
  
  Rusty Foulke still performs solo as well as with Hybrid Ice and Fran Cosmo-The Music of Boston and lives in Pennsylvania. Hybrid Ice continues to perform their reunion shows as well as the backing musicians for other artists.
  
  Rob Morse built his own studio. He writes, records and produces music and lives in New Hampshire and works in the medical profession.