CLAP Have You Reached Yet? LP/1972 US Garage Rock/Flamin' Groovies/Acid Archives

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CLAP 'Have You Reached Yet?' LP (US, Sing Sing Records, Catalogue #SING-029) Brand new/unplayed copy of official, master tape sourced (and now long SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT) Sing Sing Records label LP edition from 2011 of rare 1972 teenage Flamin' Groovies-style/Stones-influenced underground garage rock LP by Clap.

(NOTE: SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT/LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

'Appealing exercise in cool by lost-in-time pool party rockers. Genuine teenage punk that sounds more '66 (or even '64 when the sax player honks away) than '72 with snotty Jagger vocals, basic garage tracks and a real attitude. Recommended to fans of local Stones-inspired rockers, whose unglamorous lifestyle is clearly audible in the grooves. Originals all through, and not bad ones at that. I like this a lot, a good one to play when fed up with psychedelic pipe dreams.' - Patrick Lundborg/Acid Archives

'Like most followers of rare seventies rock esoterica I first heard about HAVE YOU REACHED YET? via the pages of the now-legendary BOMP fanzine. It was the surf issue if I recall correctly, and editor Greg Shaw, in the course of a pretty positive review, mentioned Clap's ability to mix up what seemed like a healthy late-sixties punk rock attitude with the prevailing hard rock winds of the early-seventies from whence this album came. The album was a charm with the hefty Rolling Stones influences so common of the day being reshaped by a strong Shadows of Knight snarl all filtered through an early seventies heavy metal consciousness giving us...a sound and style that although part and parcel to the stoner seventies mentality had a totally unique and refreshing approach that sounded as if it could stand on its own not only in 1972 but 1966 or even 1987 for that matter. It was teenage rock & roll that continued to sound so long after the entire teen mystique of the sixties and seventies shriveled away, yet it was hard enough for even the most experienced pothead at the supermarket to roll joints to during his coffee break. So for you youngsters here's an example of what "do it yourself" rock used to mean when you pretty much had to create your own fun, energies, and lives even from scratch and for your oldsters, now's the time to drag out the boas, the mascara and the nylons and re-live the post-Vietnam era the right way. Of course if you get arrested don't come complain' to me, but then again wouldn't that only add to the overall glam/slam effect so common during those rather peculiar times?' - Chris Stigliano

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

• Out Of The Shadows
• My Imagination
• Middle Of The Road
• Get It While You Can
• Have You Reached Yet
• Sweet Smell Of Success
• Stop Torturing Me
• Bluff 'Em All
• Only Just An Act
• Mornin' Thought

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