Randy California rare '72 US 1st press LP Kapt. Kopter EPIC sealed Jimi Hendrix

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Band/Record: Randy California - Kapt.Kopter And (Fabulous) Twirly Birds

Label/Matrix: US 1972 Epic KE 31755

Condition Record/Sleeve: Mint-/EX+ (record immaculate, DREAM audio. Cover clean and unwritten, like new = Still sealed )

Extra Info: Fantastic Album !! Original  US 1st press LP on the Epic label ... Wow .SEALED COPY ..very rare !!

~~ highly sought first solo album by SPIRIT guitarist/vocalist RANDY CALIFORNIA ...because of contractual situations, the bassist & drummer of this power trio had to be with assumed names...but later revealed as both of Jimi's "EXPERIENCE" members Noel Redding & Mitch Mitchell...

 In 1966, Jimi Hendrix was the front man in a group called Jimmy James and The Blue Flames. In that group were a couple of guys named Randy-- Randy Wolfe from California and the other Randy from Texas. To distinguish the two of them Hendrix dubbed them Randy California and Randy Texas respectively. When Hendrix was invited to England, Randy's parents didn't allow him to go with, and thus Randy California missed out on what became The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Most of us know what happened to Jimi... And listening to the music of singer, songwriter, guitarist Randy California, it's quite obvious that in his short time working with Hendrix Randy was heavily influenced by Jimi. In 1967 California started the band Spirit which charted 10 albums between 1967 and 1976. In 1971 Randy left Spirit to pursue a solo career (although he would return to various incarnations of the band throughout the rest of his life).

Kaptain Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds was Randy's first stab at a solo career. And while the album shows Randy's talents on guitar and even on Hendrix-esque vocals, his solo work shows more of a hard rock/acid rock edge and thus shows much more prominently the influence Hendrix had on Randy several years before.

Kaptain Kopter is an exceptional album and Randy shines throughout and even does an impressive cover of the Beatles Day Tripper. From start to finish the album is an interesting encapsulation of where acid rock was in the early seventies and remains one of the great overlooked/obscure albums of that decade.

California wailed through a series of tunes in a style more reminiscent of the extended arrangements of Electric Ladyland than the tight psychedelic pop singles on Are You Experienced? Beatles songs like "Day Tripper" and "Rain" became almost unrecognizable frames for California's improvisations. But it is the speaker to speaker wah-wah echo-plex feedback rushes in the heavy psych trips of "DOWNER", "DEVIL" & "I DON'T WANT NOBODY" that proove this cat was a "heavy" well contained in a band, great as they were, like SPIRIT.

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