THE CHARLATANS ORIGINAL 1969 ISSUE WLP NM- HISTORIC PSYCH ROCK

$

132

 
THE CHARLATANS
PHILLIPS STEREO PHS 600-309
YEAR:  1969
WHITE LABEL PROMO!
OWN A CLASSIC IN THE PSYCHEDELIC ROCK GENRE!!!



COVER: 
VG+ (SEE PHOTO OF MINOR STAINING ON UPPER LEFT FRONT; .25 INCH SPLIT SEAM ON UPPER RIGHT CORNER; BACK SHOWS SOME YELLOWING)

PLAY GRADED:
NM- (MINOR TICKS CAN BE HEARD IN DEAD WAX BETWEEN TRACKS; MINOR TICKS AT THE BEGINNING OF "AIN'T GOT THE TIME")
" THE BLUES AIN'T NOTHIN' " AND "TIME TO GET STRAIGHT" ARE AWESOME!!
NO VINYL DEFECT DETRACTS FROM LISTENING TO ANY OF THE SONGS; AUDIOPHILE QUALITY WHITE LABEL PROMO

VISUAL GRADE OF VINYL: 
NM-

LABELS: 
NM; WHITE LABEL PROMO IMPRINTED ON LABELS

FROM WIKIPEDIA:
The Charlatans were an influential psychedelic rock band that played a role in the development of the San Francisco music scene during the 1960s and are often cited by critics as being the first group to play in the style that became known as the San Francisco Sound.[1][2] Exhibiting more pronounced jug band, country and blues influences than many bands from the same scene, the Charlatans’ rebellious attitude and distinctive, late 19th century fashions exerted a major influence on the Summer of Love in San Francisco.[3] Their recorded output was small, with their first album, The Charlatans, not being released until 1969, some years after the band's heyday. The band is notable for featuring the first commercial appearance of Dan Hicks, later of Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks.

BELOW DESCRIPTION IS FROM:  http://www.popsike.com/BEAUTIFUL-1969-RARE-Orig-THE-CHARLATANS-SF-SOUND-RURAL-ACID-HIPPIES-PSYCH-M/300639952688.html

RARE!! 1969 first pressing ~ the gloriously legendary SAN FRANCISCO Hippie outfit.... THE CHARLATANS

RECORDS - PHS 600 309

Always been hard to find and nowadays plain "RARE" going for three figures $$$ in collector circles

....Original '69 issue of the very hard to find, highly collectible first CHARLATANS album...the band that essentially opened the gates to the psychedelic laced San Francisco Sound hippie scene....

THE CHARLATANS performed their first show at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada on June, 21 1965. It proved to be a psychedelic event with the band fuelled by Augustus Owlsley Stanley III's first batch of LSD. A poster was designed by Charlatan members George Hunter and Michael Ferguson to advertise the Red Dog events. It became known as The Seed and is widely accepted as being the first poster of the psychedelic era.

The founders of San Francisco acid-rock, the first band to break away from the conventions of the Merseybeat, and to ingest massive doses of LSD, were the Charlatans. The group was built around two folksingers, singer and drummer Dan Hicks and guitar player Mike Wilhelm, and one underground light show experimenter, George Hunter.

In the summer of 1965 in Virginia City, Nevada, the Charlatans and a small following of hippies took over the Red Dog Saloon and held concerts six days a week. The premises, where Hunter created the first light shows, and psychedelic guru Ken Kesey had become a fixture, were soon filled by young people from the neighboring towns. When the police chased them out of Virginia City, the hippie gathering moved to San Francisco. What happened afterwards in San Francisco was nothing but the continuation of what the Charlatans and their friends had started in Nevada.

The CHARLATANS only album was finally released in 1969 and may be a bit disappointing if you compare it with their earlier works but it's far from a "mediocre affair" as described in "Fuzz, Acid & Flowers". To be fair the highlights are aplenty...Highlights include their great take on the old Van Dyke Parks tune "High Coin" and "Time To Get Straight" is a fine folk rocker in grand Charlatans style. Also notable is the last song "When The Movies Are Over", which is a weird and trippy number, the forever great "Alabama Bound" a holdover from their peak trips of 1966.

Mike Wilhelm - Vocals, Guitar, Fretted instruments, Percussion
Richard Olsen - Vocals, Bass, Woodwind instruments, Percussion
Darrell DeVore – Vocals, Piano/Keyboards, Bass, Percussion
Terry Wilson – Drums, Percussion

A: High Coin 3:07 Easy When I'm Dead 2:38 Ain't Got the Time 2:47 Folsom Prison Blues 2:47 The Blues Ain't Nothin' 4:44 Time to Get Straight 3:53 B: When I Go Sailin' By 2:46 Doubtful Waltz 3:24 Wabash Cannonball 4:04 Alabama Bound 6:53 When the Movies Are Over 3:04