1976 PSYCH Alt Rock LP Major Arcana SEALED Jim Spencer
$
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Description
MAJOR ARCANA LP ALBUM with DENIS KITCHEN cover. (1976)
MINT / Still Sealed in Shrinkwrap Alternative Underground Record
Jim Spencer Psychedelic Rock Original Private Label Pressing
Artist/publisher Denis Kitchen's brother Jim was in a Milwaukee-based band called Major Arcana with the late Jim Spencer in the mid-1970s. This is the only album cover Kitchen ever created, but his psychedelic image became a minor hippie cult classic (it also inspired a surrealistic follow-up "story" in the underground comic Mondo Snarfo). He remembers spending "ninety hours" on the intricate cover ("and it wasn't a cash job!"). The music holds up well too. Had Spencer not died at a very early age, he and his group would likely have been commercially successful. But the group achieved only regional and brief fame.
Relatively few Major Arcana albums were manufactured (probably about 2,500). An 11 x 17" bonus poster by artist Peter Poplaski is also inside the jacket. This album is highly collectible in Japan. We are aware of at least five sales in the past year or two to Japanese dealers in the $300 wholesale range! The album is absolutely mint, pristine condition, even still in the original shrink wrap!
Item specifics:
Speed: 33 RPM Genre: Rock
Record Size: 12" Sub-Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Duration: LP Tracks: 10
Condition: MINT, never opened or played
