CHRISTOPHER • 1970 PSYCH PROG LP METROMEDIA MD 1024 SHRINK

$ 500

$ 500 Sold For

Sep 5, 2014 Sold Date

Aug 29, 2014 Start Date

$ 25 Start price

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ANOTHER ONE OF TEXAS´ WEALTH OF INTERESTING, LATE-´60s PSYCHEDELIC BANDS,
“CHRISTOPHER” CAME TOGETHER IN 1968 IN THE HOUSTON AREA. DOUG TULL (DRUMS),
DOUG WALDEN (BASS, VOCALS), AND RICHARD AVITTS (GUITAR, VOCALS) WERE THE
ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE BAND, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS “UNITED GAS”.
TULL AND AVITTS, AT THE TIME PLAYING IN A SERIES OF R&B AND SOUL-LEANING BANDS,
FIRST MET IN 1966 WHEN TULL SAT IN ON DRUMS WITH ONE OF AVITTS’ BANDS. “UNITED
GAS” MOVED TO LAS VEGAS FOR A BRIEF TIME AND THEN TO LOS ANGELES AFTER L.A.
RECORD LABEL “METROMEDIA” OFFERED THEM A TWO-YEAR CONTRACT. AT THE BEHEST
OF “METROMEDIA”, THE BAND CHANGED THEIR NAME TO “CHRISTOPHER” SO THAT THEY
WOULDN´T BE CONFUSED WITH SIMILARLY MONIKERED CALIFORNIA BAND “PACIFIC GAS
& ELECTRIC”. WALDEN AND AVITTS FELT “CHRISTOPHER” TO BE A RELIGIOUS BAND -- THE
NAME IS DERIVED FROM SAINT CHRISTOPHER -- AND WANTED TO CONVEY THIS THROUGH
THE MUSIC. RECORDING OF THEIR FIRST LP STARTED IN EARLY 1969 ; HOWEVER, IT WAS
HAMPERED BY TULL'S DRUG USE AND HIS FAILED SUICIDE ATTEMPT. HE WAS FIRED (LATER
RETURNING TO HOUSTON AND JOINING “JOSEPHUS”) AND SESSIONS WERE COMPLETED
WITH DRUMMERS JOHN SIMPSON AND TERRENCE HAND. THE RESULT WAS CHRISTOPHERS’
SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM, RELEASED IN A SINGLE 1970 PRESSING OF A THOUSAND LPs BY
“METROMEDIA” ... WALDEN AND AVITTS REMAINED IN L.A. PLAYING AS “CHRISTOPHER”
UNTIL AVITTS RETURNED TO HOUSTON LATER IN THE YEAR. THIS ALBUM IS ONE OF THE
RAREST OF THE PSYCH/GARAGE/PROGRESSIVE MUSIC ERA AND THE ONE I AM OFFERING
FOR SALE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH MINOR SIGNS OF USE - HARD TO FIND IN
ANY CONDITION AND NOW REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MAJOR LPs OF THE EARLY 1970s
AND PRESSED IN NOT MORE THAN 1,000 COPIES !

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