Hampton Grease Band "Music To Eat" Vinyl DLP (2x) Columbia. 71. First edition
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Hampton Grease Band "Music To Eat" Vinyl DLP (2x) ~ Columbia. 1971. First edition! A very unique band. World class musicians fronted by an eccentric, and sometimes whacky vocalist Bruce Hampton. (True story) Once when I was a shorthaired teenager, I went to see the band at the 12th Gate in Atlanta. Bruce stared at me and only me the entire set! Unsettling!
The Hampton Grease Band was an American rock band, beginning as a blues rock group in the late 1960s in Atlanta, Georgia. They performed with several major bands in this period, including Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers. The band gained a reputation for wacky stage antics, and eventually garnered enough attention to sign to Columbia Records. They recorded the double album Music to Eat (June 1971), which is apocryphally said to have been the second-lowest selling album in Columbia's history, second only to a yoga instructional record. This record compared with Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, and Pere Ubu.
The band then signed to Frank Zappa's Bizarre and Straight labels but broke up in 1973. Several of the members went on to more renowned music careers, including Glenn Phillips' solo work and Bruce Hampton's work with the Aquarium Rescue Unit. Harold Kelling formed The Starving Braineaters and continued playing with several bands in the Atlanta area. Sam Whiteside was also the road manager. Sam Whiteside and Espy Geisler designed the cover art and most of the artwork on the inside of their album Music to Eat. Music to Eat gained a significant cult following.
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