DINO VALENTE Dino Valente LP EPIC 1968 US orig+stereo QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERV

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DINO VALENTE

A fascinating enigma of the San Francisco psychedelic scene, Valente is most famed 

as the author of "Get Together." This definitive '60s love-and-peace anthem was recorded 

on the Jefferson Airplane's first album, and taken into the Top Ten by the Youngbloods. 

Valente was also an original member of Quicksilver Messenger Service, although drug busts 

meant that he did not actually perform and record with the group for about five years, 

by which time they were on the downside artistically. Prior to finally hooking up with Quicksilver, 

he also recorded a strange but attractive folk-psychedelic album 

as a solo act that is a rare and legendary psychedelic cult item

"DINO VALENTE"

1968     LP     EPIC RECORDS     BN 26335   STEREO

PRINTED IN USA    ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

SINGLE SLEEVE

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

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LABEL: EPIC - YELLOW LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: BN 26335  

Catalog on labels: BN 26335 (XSB 119679 / XSB 119680)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): XSB 119679-1C

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): XSB 119680-1C

On labels: *Produced by Bob Johnston

"Epic," Marcas Reg. T.M. Printed in U.S.A.

On spine: Printed in U.S.A.

On back cover: Notes by Ralph J. Gleason

All selections, except "Me And My Uncle", written by Dino Valente

*Produced by Bob Johnston

All selections are BMI.

Manufactured by: Epic Records, CBS, Inc., 51 W. 52 Street, New York City.

®"Epic", Marca Reg. T.M. Printed in U.S.A.

tracklisting

Side A: TIME - SOMETHING NEW - *MY FRIEND

LISTEN TO ME - ME AND MY UNCLE

  grading

RECORD from VG to VG(+) but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Dino Valente's sole album recalls the one issued by another San Francisco artist signed to CBS in the late '60s, 

Skip Spence: quirky, lyrically vague, folky yet psychedelic, and nearly devoid of commercial potential 

in spite of its largely pleasant (if moody) melodies and textures. Valente, however, was not as intriguing 

a lyricist as Spence, nor as intensely soulful a vocalist, and overall much sunnier in tone. 

Valente had a rather whiny voice, so it was wise to put so much echo on both his 12-string guitar 

(which accounts for most of the instrumentation on the record) and vocals, which both covered up 

some of his vocal deficiencies and added a sheath of mystery. 

Listening to his songs is like listening to some hippie trying to talk a vulnerable, confused, attractive girl, 

on the rebound from a failed romance, into taking up with him as a panacea to her problems: 

phrases are uttered and rejoinders offered, but one can't be sure exactly 

what the situation is or where it's leading....(AllMusic)