STRAY - "Suicide" - FIRST PRESSING vinyl LP - ONLY US COPY ON EBAY -
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Jan 22, 2017 Sold Date
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STRAY

“SUICIDE”  

Mercury       SRM 1 611

1971

FIRST PRESSING

EX / VG+

ONLY US COPY ON EBAY AS OF 01-19-2017.  


Only US copy I have ever seen and I bought it in San Antonio in 1975 at Apples Record Shop (hey, Monte Martinez, are you out there?).  VERY NICE SHAPE.  White label promo disc is gorgeous.  The black cover has some ring scuffs and two corners feature a bit of wear.  Otherwise, nice!!

Excellent hard rock that moves into PROG at times.  Features Stephen (Steve) Gadd on vocals.

Note:  A 180g reissue was issued in the 2000's but featured a "cleaned up" sound not indicative of the original.  Additionally, the LP was reissued in 2006 on CD but the digitizing changed the sound of the music.  Too tinny for many.

Stored vertically in a smoke free environment for 46 years.

More about the band from Wikipedia:  “Stray was an English hard rock band formed in 1966. Vocalist Steve Gadd, guitarist Del Bromham, bass player Gary Giles and drummer Steve Crutchley formed the band whilst all were attending the Christopher Wren School in London. Richard "Ritchie" Cole replaced Crutchley in 1968. They signed to Transatlantic Records in January 1970.

The group's brand of melodic, hook-laden hard rock proved to be a popular draw on the local club scene during the early 1970s. However the band did not have commercial success with its record releases. At one stage Charlie Kray (brother of the Kray twins Ronnie and Reggie), was their manager. Gadd left the band in 1975 due to artistic differences and was replaced on vocals by Pete Dyer. The groups early musical style consisted of blues rock, acid rock and psychedelic rock. They then went on to join the hard rock and progressive rock movement.

The band served as the rhythm section alongside a string orchestra for the 1975 Jimmy Helms Pye Lp Songs I Sing. The original Stray finally dissolved in 1977, although Bromham later continued to play in various resurrected versions of the project well into the 2000’s”




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