20TH CENTURY ZOO - Thunder on a Clear Day Psych - MINT

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Psych fan? Then this is for you! You are bidding on a super rare LP

1968 VAULT RECORDS release,

Twentieth Century Zoo - Thunder On A Clear Day.

LEGENDARY WEST-COAST PSYCH  

KILLER FUZZ DRENCHED PSYCH / GARAGE

Not many were pressed and sold poorly at the time of release. Another overlooked gem and is undoubtedly is a hard-to find jewel.

Excellent psych with strong blues tendencies and LOTS of fuzz!!! The rarest title on Vault, I think. and perhaps also the best.

ORIGINAL STEREO vinyl album LP psych released in 1968 USA on the green label Vault [SLP 122]

Classic late '60 US. Great heavy acid psych with fuzz guitars and spaced effects all over the place. Tracks such as "Rainbow" and "It's All In My Head" are essential U.S. psych hard bluesy rock with psychedelic edge, effects, organ, gruff vocals and loads of lead guitar both fuzzed and non-fuzzed...

The 20th Century Zoo were the first Psych band from Phoenix to have a national album release. The story begins in 1966 when West High School student Bob Sutko recruited Allan Chitwood,and Greg Farley and formed the folk-rocking Bittersweets. The band became the fixture on the valley rock scene,measuring up to such local legends as the Spiders,the Caravelles,The Mile Ends,Vibratos,and Phil and the Frantics. The Bittersweets released two local singles in 1966 & 1967 including the sought after"Cry your eyes out" (Hype 102) The Bittersweets gained support of Tony Evans,and influential music director of phoenix radio giant KRIZ(1230 AM). He helped release thier third and final single called "In the night"/"Another Chance"(OSR 70). By late 1967 Bittersweets decided to take another tack,psychedelicizing into the 20th Century Zoo. Besides ex-Bittersweets Bob Sutko(vocals & Harmonica) Greg Farley(rhythm gutair) Allan Chitwood,and drummer Paul Bennett,the group picked up Paul"Skip"Ladd,formerly of the Laser Beats , was a very local popular band which had a now famous drummer known as "Neal Smith" of the original Alice Cooper band. Skip would play lead gutair for 20th Century Zoo. Band manager Chari Zelman-finaced a session at Audio recorders on north 7th St. in Phoenix. The resulting single's A side"Clean Old Man"(CAZ 103) gave little warningof the ferocityfound on the flip. The mind crunching fuzz of "you Don't Remember"could have clinched lengendary status for the zoo it self. Shortly after the record hit the streets in the late 1967 Bennett recevied greeting from Uncle Sam,so they brought in Randy Wells on drums and proceded to release more singleslike "Love in your face",Tossin and Turnin", In the fall of 1968 Chari Zelman secured a record contract with Vault records of Los Angeles. they spent about 2 weeks in LA's sound factory studio's,which the results were phenominal. The album is titled"Thunder on a Clear Day".

Supervision and liner photography Gene Simmons.

Side one- QUIET BEFORE THE STORM

                 RAINBOW

                 BULLFROG

                 LOVE IN YOUR FACE

Side two- YOU DON'T REMEMBER

                 IT'S ALL IN MY HEAD

                 BLUES WITH A FEELING

RECORD CONDITION: NEAR MINT

COVER CONDITION: NEAR MINT

LABELS CONDITION: NEAR MINT

Labels are clean and the spindle area has virtually no wear whatsoever, there are absolutely no traces here that this record has ever been on a deck.

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