CHAPTER II Page One 1968 DUTCH MOD FREAKBEAT PSYCH HEAR

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

CHAPTER II "Page One"

Original 1968 LP on the Dutch PHILIPS label, MONO XPL 655 023

Cover:  VG++, original flipback sleeve, some corner crimping & small stain on back

Vinyl:  Looks beat, lotsa marks, scratches, some feelable and they DO make clicks - this is a RARE record but make no mistake - this one's been around the block.  Plays GOOD/VG MINUS at best - check the clip to get a much better idea of how it plays.  It didn't skip for me when I checked it.

Great big mod pop art explosions of color from the Hague, circa 1966.  This is Dutch freakbeat from Chapter II, the album appropriately titled Page One (think how confusing it would’ve been if the Page One label released it).  No newcomers to the scene, the boys in Chapter II had already been kickin’ it around the land of tulips as the Young Ones, and since 1962 they’d been the meat and potatoes behind many singers, including Cliff Richard on a tour of their homeland.  Following a supposedly huge advertising campaign in 1966 (I’m taking their word for it – as far as I remember, no full-page ads were taken out in the Penny Pincher in east New Jersey), they were rechristened Chapter II, and burst onto the rock scene like a piñata of brightly colored guitar licks.  Or the Dutch equivalent of the Who’s A Quick One.

Certainly the stompin’ feedback-drenched freakbeat explosion “Count” would’ve fit nicely somewhere between “So Sad About Us” and “Happy Jack,” while the rawer organ-and-harmonica-led “Seven Dimes” is a genuine slice of chuggin’ garage rock frenzy, a blistering Yardbirds-like raveup whose racing tempo repeatedly stumbles over itself trying to get out of its own way.  Elsewhere, the tricky baroque Beatle-isms of “Twinkle Eye” gallops along on an ever-increasing march tempo, “Norwegian Wood” on a sugar rush. 

It ain’t yet psychedelia – that was still a year away – but the fiery electric spirit of mid-60’s Who, Yardbirds and Pretty Things is captured nicely in the grooves of this very RARE Dutch mod pop color wheel of sounds.  By 1968, they were gone.  Chapter III would never be.

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