ELECTRIC PIANO PLAYGROUND Psychedelic Seeds 1967 WILD EXPLOITO PSYCH LP LISTEN

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THE ELECTRIC PIANO PLAYGROUND "Psychedelic Seeds" LP

ORIGINAL 1967 LP on the US BELL label, STEREO 6007

COVER is in EXCELLENT shape, some ringwear on back

VINYL plays VG++ to EXCELLENT

I remember once back in my gardening days (can’t tell you what I grew because that court case is still pending) I went down to the local greenhouse for some cucumber seeds and the guy behind the counter carelessly threw in some psychedelic seeds by accident.  I didn’t catch it, of course, so a couple months later, in between my Miss Pickler Hybrids, there were these bright day-glo psychedelic bulbs shaped like electric pianos.  That was pretty cool right there, but what made it even better was, every time the wind blew, these little bulbs would start playing garage music with little tinkling tones like tiny satin-wrapped harpsichords.  And you never knew what you were gonna hear - a stiff breeze from the North might produce “Tobacco Road,” while a gentle zephyr from the West might start up a rousing little version of “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night.”  Needless to say, the cucumbers got a bit jealous.  But the best they could do were bad Harpers Bizarre covers on glockenspiel.  I think I picked ‘em prematurely that year just to stop the racket.

What a surprise it was then when I found out that someone else had experienced the same psychedelic piano seed concert and committed it to vinyl.  Electric Piano Playground, by those same Psychedelic Seeds.  It brings back some great memories, that’s for sure – “Wild Thing” is here, The Stones’ “Satisfaction,” that groovy take on “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night,” and that wild petal-vibrating take on “Tobacco Road,” which assumes the Blues Magoos were the only band who recorded it.  It also made me think that maybe these little musical plants might’ve had some tobacco value to ‘em.  But when I tried to smoke one, lemme tell you, I saw things a grown man should never see.  Let me just say the words “Nipsey Russell” and “whipped cream” and leave it at that. 

What kinda shocked me, and maybe my memory’s a little fuzzy after inhaling, but I didn’t remember the big fuzz guitars in the middle of “Psychotic Reaction.”  But I ain’t complaining - I’m glad they’re there just the same.  And I couldn’t tell you WHAT kind of hurricane-strength gale force winds were required to produce something as monstrous as the title track, a creepy freakish slow-burning synth and fuzz guitar THING that sounds like a cross between Pink Floyd’s “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” and Matthew Sweet’s “Genie (The Second Coming).”  But I can tell you that if my psychedelic electric piano buds ever played that sweet racket on a Tuesday night, I mighta just stopped growing what I was growing in the basement and just tripped out on that sound.  I might just light up a few cucumbers too while I’m at it…

HEAR IT!

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Media mail shipping with delivery confirmation starts at $4.00 in the US, with each additional record only $1 additional shipping.  Overseas shipping has, unfortunately, gone way up in the fast few months, which translates to $15 for the first LP to Canada ($3 each one thereafter) and $24 for the first LP everywhere else in the world, with each add'l LP an extra $5 (so it pays to buy more, nudge nudge wink wink).   I accept payments through Paypal. 

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SHIPPING AND PACKAGING

Listen, I buy a bunch of records too (when I’m not getting outbid at the last second, which is more often than not) – and I know what it’s like to get a rare, one-of-a-kind album packaged dangerously in a flimsy bubblewrap package.  I hate that too.  So rest assured, I ALWAYS package albums with stiff cardboard reinforcements, same for 45s.  And yes, the records are removed from the sleeves (for albums).  I ship out once a week, every Friday, because I have a regular day job.  But I’d be willing to give that up if you’d all be so kind as to bid my items up to stupidly high amounts. 

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NOW IT’S YOUR TURN…

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