MINT 1971 Orig OL' PAINT BEATLES CRAFTED BIG STAR POP

$ 79

$ 79 Sold For

Jun 26, 2011 Sold Date

Jun 21, 2011 Start Date

$ 10 Start price

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TOP COPY!

MINT 1971 RARE CRAFTY POP~ROCK GEM

OL' PAINT

\ USA - GWP RECORDS - 2034

TOP COPY! STILL IN THE ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER...

RARE, original 1971 first pressing vinyl ACID ARCHIVES small USA pressing "OL' PAINT" delivering a surprisingly strong album...

This superb collection of psych-tinged BEATLESQUE poprock first appeared in 1971 and has languished in undeserved obscurity ever since. The band are thought to have come from New York, and display a clear Beatles influence, covering similar ground to that which Big Star would make its own a couple of years later. This is their only album...

Ol' Paint's first and only album, suggests what might have happened if a tuneful rural edged-rock band had heard Big Star's #1 Record and decided to try something similar. Of course, clever collector enthusiasts will recall that Big Star's debut didn't arrive until 1972, and while the utter obscurity of this album would make it unlikely that Alex Chilton and company took any cues from Ol' Paint, at the very least the two bands sound like kindred spirits of smart power-pop in an era when such things were in short supply. Ol' Paint had a pair of fine tunesmiths in lead vocalist Tony Caputo and guitarist Andy Mendelson, and both bring some fine melodies and full-bodied melodic hooks to the table, but unfortunately neither was an especially compelling lyricist ("Victims of the Sex Revolution" is a cringe-worthy high point), and while Big Star clearly took their cues from the Beatles, there are a few moments on Ol' Paint where it's hard not to feel they'd been listening to more Merry-Go-Round (Emitt Rhodes) than Paul McCartney (not a bad thing at all in and of itself). Brief flashes of prog rock also flow through Ol' Paint's formula, and "Up from the Sea" and "Mogitah" probably turned off any Beatles obsessives looking for something similarly tuneful in a world without Fabs. Despite the album's eccentricities and inconsistencies, Ol' Paint is a fascinating disc that's full of truly enjoyable stuff, and one can only imagine what became of these guys after their brief moment of record-making glory.

Always In The WAy

She Leaves Free

It's My Birthday

All For Love

I'm A Natural Man

Was I Surprised

Mogitah

Victims Of The Sexual Revolution

Up From The Sea

You Are My Friend

Good-bye

Down So Long

CONDITION: The Cover: MINT in original factory shrink wrap, all solid and stiff though it does have an unobtrusive manufacturing error with a long bubble underneath the cover slick ... not really a problem unlless overly picky...this sort of thiong happened with small label productions...otherwise TOP COPY ...

The Vinyl: All clean and smooth M- ... play graded TOP LEVEL and has clean labels...

A cool addition to anyone's music library!

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...

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