TOUCH "(DEBUT)" LP PSYCHEDELIC ACID ROCK rare
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TOUCH "(DEBUT)" LP
1969 US COLISEUM DS 51004
12 inch stereo LP vinyl record album --- SEVEN SELECTIONS - GATEFOLD COVER (SEE PICS) original Coliseum pressing (not the reissue)
The legendary 1969 US album which featured ex-Kingsmen and future Stooges producer Don Gallucci within their ranks. A psych mix of rock, classical, early prog and jazz adds up to a unique sound. On the track "Seventy Five" Joey Newman transforms his voice into an exotic instrument of operatic intensity, before the band head into the cosmos with a luscious guitar lead opus. Peel back your mind and listen to this long lost magical album.
Prior to forming the group Touch, Don Gallucci arranged the album Elyse (Tetragammaton T-117,1968) for Elyse Weinberg and utilized the guitar services of Joey Newman on the same album. That same year he got together the three remaining members of Don And The Goodtimes together with new recruits John Bardonaro (drums, vocals) and Bruce Hauser (bass, vocals) and formed the group Touch. Theirs was a complete and radical deviation from the pop-style music that Gallucci had previously played and written. Instead the music reflected the times and was heavily tinged with psychedelia together with progressive overtones. Recordings took place in an almost party-like atmosphere in Hollywood with such musical luminaries from the world of rock and psychedelia as Mick Jagger, Grace Slick and Jimi Hendrix all attending the recordings. The production work was entrusted to Gene Shiveley who had also worked on the Elyse Weinberg album together with Gallucci and Newman. Both musical critics and fellow musician alike gave their approval to the tracks being laid down and there were high expectations for the album. The album Touch (London Deram SML 1031 Coliseum DS51004) was released in 1969. A 7" single, Miss Teach - We Feel Free (Coliseum 2712) was also released in a bid to obtain airplay for the album.
All the later excesses of 'progressive rock' ñ the visions and ambitions of groups like Yes, Styx, Kansas, King Crimson ñ are here in spades. Mixed and morphed genres, shifting time-signatures, orchestral 'movements' within pieces, five-part harmonies - Touch used all these and more unabashedly.
"Seventy-Five" goes way past these latter-day groups in its psychedelic effects, extreme stereo-panning, radical use of reverberation, 'really really quiet - really LOUD' dynamics, experimentation in voice alteration (not unlike Tim Buckley's in StarSailor) and guitar tone (making it sound just like the singer's voice), and the incredible conclusion where the stereo cabinets themselves become buzzing agents of sonic over-drive; all these go into zones where the comparisons end. The latter-day groups, for all their excesses, were much more reigned in than Touch.
Touch also has that sound of discovery - they were innovating this stuff, taking chances, going further out, setting the bar higher. That was the zeitgeist of the era.
record and sleeve are in excellent condition; no splits, tears, writing, stickers, labels, ring wear or handling marks --- THIS IS NOT A CUTOUT
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- cheers: GEB.
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