1968 CYCLE-DELIC SOUNDS THE ARROWS Fuzz Psych GARAGE

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RARE and "cool" 1968 ORIGINAL                          

FUZZ / Psych...straight from the garage!                                                                                                                                        

        DAVIE ALLEN & THE ARROWS

        CYCLE-DELIC SOUNDS             

                    USA - TOWER RECORDS -  DT 5094 - MONO

RARE 1968 first pressing ....JAMMIN' FUZZ GARAGE COOKER  on the highly collected TOWER RECORDS label...

Featuring the buzz-saw fuzz-tone guitar dynamics of DAVIE ALLEN, backed by his raw garage band, THE ARROWS

Much of the "Cycle-delic" album is based around simple, repetitive riffs that the rhythm section keeps playing throughout most of the songs. Its minimal chord changes and unceasing pulse presage Krautrock in some ways, though there's still plenty of the garage-guitar structures that connects it back to more typical Arrows work. The title track starts it off and within 15 seconds or so, after a few brief repetitions of the song's base riff, Davie Allan launches off into stinging action. He's both overdriving his amp to a ridiculous extent and manipulating the hell out of a wah-wah pedal, combining the two sonic manipulations to make his guitar sound like it is both on fire and screaming for its life. This first solo lasts until about 1:30, at which point it is joined by a free jazz sax that would sound right at home on John Coltrane's "Ascension" LP. Allan keeps soloing behind it, and when it drops out after 30 seconds or so, he goes into even more extreme guitar destruction, culminating in a passage, at about 2:45, where it sounds like he's yelling into his pickups. If that's what he's doing, he's frantically working his wah-wah pedal at the same time, so whatever vocalizations he's delivering are completely incoherent, but that just makes the whole thing even cooler.

Finally, the rhythm section drops back into a vamp, and while the drummer keeps time with his kick pedal, a harmonica solo begins. Allan just feeds back aimlessly at the beginning of this solo, but after a couple of measures, he and the harmonica player begin exchanging phrases, Robert Plant/Jimmy Page style. Davie tires of this quickly, though, and slamming his wah-wah pedal back down, he takes the song over once again. The rhythm section, presumably led by excellent rhythm guitarist/songwriter Mike Curb (though actually guessing at this, since individual credits are absent from "Cycle-delic Sounds"), follows Davie's lead, and back into the frantic, pounding pulse we go, carried by sheets of guitar noise and crackling tambourines.



This whole thing still isn't over, though, and at about 4:25, the first real change in the main riff occurs, as the Arrows switch into a start-stop chug riff that builds to a crescendo before dropping down into a much quieter repetition of the original riff. Finally, at maybe 5:20 or so, the rhythm section drops out completely, except for the periodic ringing chime of what might be a triangle or a bell of some sort. Davie quit soloing and dropped out of the mix completely at about the point when the band got quiet, but now, as they cut out, he comes back in. There's no real rhyme or reason to what he's doing by now, his sinister, howling sheets of fuzz noise having lost all connection to the rest of the song some time back, and he finally quits playing completely at the same time that the rhythm section drops out. Now all that's left other than that repeated chiming sound is Mike Curb, playing a gorgeous melodic arpeggio all by himself. If you dig the sounds of that sorta action...dig the rest of similar grooves within the gritty grinds of Cycle-Delic Sounds Of Davie Allen & The Arrows...Another winner by the kings of fuzz! This one kicks even more butt than their first. Probably their most consistently psychedelic offering.

CONDITION: The cover looks cool, VG+(+) with only little, very small prior use, been well handled, nothing there to be concerned over, keeper collectible looks.

The vinyl is glossy on both sides, vastly clear, VG++ at worse having but small soft scuffs, nothing on either side to worry = looks and plays very enjoyable...play graded excellent

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record