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HAPSHASH AND THE COLOURED COAT

The "Human Host" were, effectively, the band "Art" that became "Spooky Tooth"

Two art students/designers, Michael English and Nigel Weymouth, whose striking graphics were seen on many posters 

during the sixties, were the creative talent behind this band along with DJ and manager Guy Stevens. 

Their first album is something of an electric mayhem and freeform freakout which has not stood the test of time well. 

With the record completed, Weymouth and English continued to work as designers, while Stevens was 

by now a producer at Island Records with Art (later to become Spooky Tooth) among his credits. 

Nigel Weymouth retained the name Hapshash And The Coloured Coat for a second, less radical album 

on which he was joined by line-up above and received session assistance from Tony McPhee (of Groundhogs) 

and his early producer, Mike Batt. Mickey Finn, later of Tyrannosaurus Rex, was also a member 

at some point, but the group disintegrated late in 1969. Ken Kesey played bass on their 1969 45

"FEATURING THE HUMAN HOST AND THE HEAVY METAL KIDS"

Produced by Guy Stevens

1967      LP        MINIT RECORDS       MONO   MLL 40001

MADE IN ENGLAND     ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

RED VINYL

WITHOUT THE RARE INSERT

  Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  MINIT -  BLACK LABEL & MULTICOLORED LOGO - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) MLL 40001E

Catalog on labels: MLL 40001 (MLL 40001 A / MLL 40001 B)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): MLL 40001   A 1  420   1 1   3 

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): MLL 40001  B?1  420   1 1   3

On labels: Minit A Product Of Liberty Records  

? 1967

Produced by Guy Stevens

(on Side A): (All numbers written: Stevens-Waymouth-English)

Published: Hapshash Music

(on Side B): (Stevens-Waymouth-English)       Hapshash Music

rim text reads 'All rights.......Manufactured by Philips Records Ltd.'

On Back Sleeve: Produced and Designed by Hapshash And The Coloured Coat

Photography by Ekim Adis

MINIT Subsidiary of Liberty Records Ltd., 11 Albemarle Street, London, W.1.

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side 1: H-O-P-P- WHY?A MIND BLOWN IS A MIND SHOWN

THE NEW MESSIAH COMING 1985 - AOUM

Side 2: EMPIRES OF THE SUN

  grading

RECORD  NEAR EX but (please reas above description)

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

This album has acquired a bit of status as a minor legend over the moons, and it's not too hard 

on balance to hear why; besides the grandiose spirit-of-1967 group and album name, 

this brief but interesting record has a lot of descendants, though whether that was intentionally 

the case or not is up in the air. The English trio that made up Hapshash & the Coloured Coat 

for its original incarnation was composed of art designers and DJs by trade; this, their sole 

release together, is a classic situation of lightning in a bottle. The emphasis is on blunt but 

entrancing rhythm throughout -- pounding drums and bongos, rolling piano (sometimes practically 

barrelhouse), and chunky guitar parts that are proto-funk as much as steady, straightforward crunch. 

Combine that with vocals that appear then disappear as needed and an air of ragged partying, 

and it's not too off balance to consider this album as a fine equivalent to what the Velvet Underground 

were starting to cook up. Certainly it sounds like the original Amon Düül had this spinning 

when creating their own freak-outs a couple of years later, what with the chanting 

and fractured acid folk guitar here and there...(AllMusic)