ONE HUNDRED PERCENT ( 100 % ) UNKNOWN FIBERS * PSYCH

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Various Artists - 100% Unknown Fibers Odd Lots (No label, 1970)

COVER:  VG+, mostly due to mildew. Looks like a couple of top seam splits, but, for what it's worth, the fragile cover slick paper has flaked off in a couple spots on the top seam without actually splitting, due to the particular cover construction.  In any case, there is what looks like a 2" split at top pocket opening, a 1" split at top center and another 1" split top left. there is another 1" "split" at the bottom of the spine. The bottom seam is tight with no splits. There is a small patch of price sticker reside on the front. I have posted 8 pictures here with details of the front and back covers and the labels.
DISC: Gorgeous! M- (a couple of small light sleeve lines only.)

I don't usually do reserves, but there is a RESERVE price on this LP due to its rarity.

Some of you guys might remember that I sold a copy in similar condition a little over a year ago. That copy sold for $787.00 This is a different copy. I found two at the same time a few years ago, and this is the second and LAST copy I have. I don't have a stash of these, and as far as I know, nobody else does either. This record is extremely rare and there are only a handful of known copies.

Original press - NOT the aborted German reissue project.

Basically a copy that looks like it might have been carefully played once or twice back in the day and then sat around in a basement for the next 35 years!

INSANELY RARE live LP documenting the Laguna Beach Christmas Happening festival in December 1970. The LP was probably pressed in 1971. The festival featured a lot of local unknown underground psych bands and was closely tied to legendary LSD distributors the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Patrick of Acid Archives has researched and written a terrific article describing the festival and LP in detail. Read it on the the website.

Also, anyone interested in psychedelic or sixties culture should read the recently-published book "Orange Sunshine" which tells the fascinating story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

Only a handful of known copies exist of this monster psych rarity. Some copies came with several inserts pertaining to the festival, but this copy has none.

Here are some excerpts from the Acid Archives article, describing the LP itself:

"About 25 years later, in the late 1990s, word was starting to spread among rare record specialists about a mysterious album titled “100% Unknown Fibers”. The record showed no track list or credits whatsoever, and from the rubber-stamped sleeve and old pressing it was assumed to be a bootleg, manufactured in the early 1970s. The problem was that noone could figure out who the artist being bootlegged was, as it didn’t sound remotely like anyone famous. As questions were asked, a few more copies of “100% Unknown Fibers” were identified in collections around the US; in total about a half-dozen were accounted for.

An Orange County newspaper back in 1970 mentioned a few participating bands such as Sound Spectrum and Primal Scream, as well as the aforementioned Sea & East Utopian Mission, but gave no details of their performances.

It must be mentioned that “100% Unknown Fibers” is a primitive recording with poor sound quality, even as private pressings go. It’s likely to be an audience tape, rather than from soundboard. The music is mostly jammy acid-rock typical of the era, predominantly instrumental workouts on Hendrix and Cream riffs, with lots of raw fuzz leads and some vocals. One track has a trancey folkrock feeling, including flute. All over it is reminiscent of some of the Yahowa 13 basement jams, like those heard on “I’m Gonna Take You Home”, minus Father Yod. There’s some nice grooves and feedback soloing here and there. It’s hard to determine how many different groups are featured on the album, but my guess is that it’s at least four different outfits, as the mixing and soundscapes differ, even while most of them are stylistically similar. A high point of the LP is the inclusion of several microphone raps from the Laguna Greeter and others, including the plea for Thorazine quoted above. One guy goes into a hostile rant about war, Nixon and Angela Davis, before being cut off with the reminder that the festival is about “love, not aggression”. The stage announcements combine with the crowd ambience, hovering police helicopters, and raw, improvised music to capture a moment in time, warts and all.

Beyond these immediate impressions, the release of the “100% Unknown Fibers” LP remained a mystery. According to an insert sheet, the music had been selected from “72 hours” of recordings, and the performers were “100% unidentified”. The newspaper articles, both old and recent, contained no references to any album release. The prevalent theory was that the record had been put together as a side-project by a local bootlegger, an industry which had its ground zero in the L A/Orange County area."
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