RARE 1967 TRANSWORLD ORIG THE RABBLE 1st LP FREAKY UNDERGROUND PSYCH GARAGE
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RARE 1967 PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND COOOOL!
The rarely seen real deal!
= THE RABBLE =
THE RABBLE ALBUM
CANADA - TRANS WORLD - TW 6700
PLENTY RARE ...1967 CANADIAN first press with entirely different cover from the USA pressing ... rarely available it commands three $$$ figure costs in collectors circles 'round the globe ... Anyway, these Canadian hipsters were one of the best in their scene, and stood tall among such CDN legends as The Ugly Ducklings & The Hauted....
The Rabble were five longhair lads from Pointe Claire on Montreal's west island who played a nominally cool, oddly eccentric alternative to the Haunted's straight-on garage/blues rock. Their first album is a psychedelic curio sadly languishing in oblivion, even as scads of American and international crud is scraped from the bottom of the dustbin of sixties psychedelia. What gives?The band were formed in 1966 by leader/guitarist Mike Harris and did the requisite club and bar slog across Montreal island, eventually playing before 4,000 people at the Queen's Park love-in in Toronto on May 22, 1967. But unlike other bands of the era, who were trying to establish rock as a serious medium (as evinced no doubt by the emergence of rock criticism at about the same time), the Rabble were more eccentric, stippling their music with wit, sarcasm and whimsy.
The first Rabble single, a psychedelic rocker I’m Alaboundy Bam, got little chart action. Their single, the follow-up "Golden Girl," was a slice of catchy cool-pop-perfection number that was a different story. Golden Girl was a highlight on the Montreal airwaves during the technicolour summer of 1967. They won over a restless audience at the Paul Sauvé Arena when headliners Cream didn't show, walking off the stage triumphantly – in matching underwear. Their music, at its best, crossed Beatlesque hooks with the no-barriers attack of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention ‘‘That thing just started popping,’’ group member John Pimm said. ‘‘We started winning all these new music battles (on the radio) – phone-in things,’’ The Rabble seemed unstoppable. But beyond the groovy-hooks sound, they delivered shock value with musical anarchy and experimentation, too – particularly in songs like the Zappa-esque Black Potato, the Eastern-flavoured drama of Rising of the Sun and the sheer free-for-all madness of The Energy Ritual, Harris’s 11-minute album-closing suite. The Rabble found its original release on the Canadian Trans-World label in 1967, but after a surprise substitution for Cream in 1968 in Montreal in front of 5,000 fans, the group soon nabbed the attention of U.S. label Roulette, who subsequently released this record south of the border.
Elsewhere, however, the Rabble fly their freak flag in full colours. 'Black Potato', for instance, is a tribal paean, replete with goofy jungle-like chants, to the humble spud, the "almighty black potato". 'The Crushing Hand of Mother' mixes odd time changes with social commentary and the Zappa-esque prescience of "your mother's got a hold on you, yeah / controls all the things that you do, yeah" before snapping into a staccato guitar riff and then back to its languid lament. And then there is the patently absurd 'Can I Squeeze', which belts out some of the nimblest guitar rhythms before popping the gross-out question of the century, "Can I squeeze your boil? / Can I crunch it, munch it, squeeze it, eat it?" The Rabble jams it up at times with heavy blues sludge considered the happening sound (ala Cream) at the time, which adds to this overlooked charmer of a platter that should have been reissued a long time ago.
- I Can Still Hear Them Laughing
- Black Potatoe
- Nothin’ But
- Rising Of The Sun
- The Crushing Hand Of Mother
- Side B:
- Golden Girl
- We’ll Bring You Flowers
- Can I Squeeze
- The Energy Ritual: I. House Of Cards II. What? III. Collapse Of The Sugar Plum Fairies IV. Gensis
CONDITION: The COVER: THICK old '60s type cardboard cover...the front is very square & flat with only a touch of shelf wear, remains a strong VG++ while the back is the same but has a name in ink (see photo #2)...get past that and it's pretty solid all over... having NO split seams, no bends, no writing ...
The vinyl: all glossy across both sides, rated VG with numerous stray hairlines, nothing strong, so played really well in VG++ levels - having only minimum surface here or there ...definitely enjoyable ...and considering the severe rarity, a collection keeper until with a little luck a better copy comes along... just keep your fingers crossed, but don't hold your breath! It does have clean TRANS-WORLD labels
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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