GRAHAME BOND Love is the Law Orig 1969 Pulsar RARE psych STILL SEALED
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GRAHAME BOND - Love is the Law
Pulsar Records - AR 10604
Original 1969 Stereo pressing. Rare original copy of great blues/psych LP !
Still Factory Sealed!!!!
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Love Is the Law is the first of the two LPs Graham Bond recorded for the Pulsar label in the late '60s after his move to the United States, and is the better of the pair by a wide margin. That doesn't mean, it should be cautioned, that it's that great, and it's considerably below the standard of the discs he cut in the U.K. in the mid-'60s as the leader of the Graham Bond Organisation. That might not only be because he was missing musicians of the extremely high caliber of his supporting players in the Organisation; it might also be due to him having played everything himself on the LP, with the exception of drums (by Hal Blaine) and some soulful female backup vocals. Yet there's still substantial pleasure -- if that's the right word to use for a musician with such a demonic vocal, instrumental, and compositional flavor -- to be had from Bond's consistently spooky blues-rock organ and Mellotron. If his vocals are a bit croaky, and his lyrics (where odes to free love dovetail with dread and the occult) a bit creepy, that's part of the reason the music stands out even from the eclectic palette of late-'60s rock; there's nothing else quite like it, even if it might not be his best work. The title track and "The World Will Soon Be Free" are certainly among the absolute highlights of his post-Organisation discography, and if the remake of "Our Love Will Come Shining Through" isn't up to the level of the great obscure mid-'60s U.K. 45 on which he first issued the song, it's still pretty good. If some of the lyrics seem a bit awkward and confused in their confluence of naïve romanticism and ominous foreboding, they're made up for by some quite groovy blues-jazz organ riffs. Overall, it sounds like the songwriting could have done with some polish and the arrangements with some fleshing out, but Bond fans will still find it worthwhile to seek out this rare LP. ~ Ritchie Unterberger
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Condition/Grading
Stunning copy of this rare record. Minor corner bumps and shrink has split at bottom right corner. Absolutely MINT sealed copy! The pictures speak for themselves. Don't miss out!
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Shipping & Handling
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Canada
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International
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Packing
All LP's are properly packaged. Naturally, LP will be removed from sleeve and housed in a generic paper sleeve and packed outside of LP jacket and placed in a protective 3 mil polyvinyl sleeve, unless SEALED. Original paper inner sleeve will be shipped inside of album jacket. LP jacket itself will be placed in a protective Japanese mylar resealable sleeve. All content will be placed in a sturdy cardboard record mailer, with stiff protective fillers and/or bubble wrap. The rest will be in the hands of the Postal Service!
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