LP-Born Again-Pagan---orig. Rockadelic issue clear vinyl 70's west coast psych

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60

(PAGAN .) by (BORN AGAIN )...... ....(Born Again: "Born Again Pagan" 2001, USA/Rockadelic RRLP 42. Disc is M-, and it's one of only a handful pressed on multicoloured vinyl! Cover is M-, this is like new! Very rare limited edition on offer here; only about a dozen were made for a planned box set on Rockadelic but the printed artwork for the box was destroyed in a fire at the label owner's home and the project was never resurrected. Killer LP with lots of heavy blues and riffing hard rock, plus the creepy theme from the 1970 horror movie "The Velvet Vampire" which was scored by the band's guitarist. This track can be heard via a YouTube post: A FAN SAYS: Some people will say there is just so much good music from the '60s you can reissue, although the small community of collectors just doesn't seem to care. And then, there are those gems that were recorded but never released at the time. These are the most cutthroat projects for a record label: no previous market, no "rarity" cult status, nothing but the sole strength of the music to carry the album. Well, in this case rockadelic can say "mission accomplished." It's hard to say what would have happened of Born Again, had Pagan been released in 1971. What is easy to state, though, is that singer Brice Sullivan and guitarist Larry Otis made quite an efficient songwriting team. Their brand of blues-rock shows the influence of West Coast psychedelic rock (Iron Butterfly, specifically), but also the rootsier leanings of Savoy Brown. Otis was not a guitar hero, but he had a good sound, strong chops, and a twist in his playing that would have made him recognizable after two or three LPs. That said, the band's strongest asset was Sullivan's strong voice, a soaring blues tenor with a lot of soul. The album proper (the 11 tracks recorded in Los Angeles in 1969-1971 that were first released as this lp by Rockadelic in 2001) deserves to be heard, if only for "Sand Castle," "Radio X," and "Boiling Point," all very good songs. disc and sl are mint 1 Barnyard Blues 2 Radio X 3 No Good Reason 4 Boiling Point 5 Three Pipers 6 Laurie Waltzing 7 Sand Castle 8 Good Blues 9 She's Gone 10 Comin' Back Strong 11 Lie Me Down ).......