Golden Earring rare '69 Dutch PROG KILLER LP Eight Miles High on Polydor EX+

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Band/Record: The Golden Earring - Eight Miles High

Label/Matrix: NL 1969 Polydor 1656 019 with 1Y // 2Y

Condition Record/Sleeve: EX+/VG++ (record immaculate, DREAM audio. Cover clean and unwritten, with tiny aging wear on corners and edges)

Extra Info: Fantastic Album !! Original Dutch 1st pressing on Polydor Medium with original flip-back cover. Wow ...EX+ Dream audio ... VERY RARE !!

~~ This is the last album where the group will use the prefix The to their name, thus entering the 70's and their prog era with this superb album. The classic quartet is now definitely leaving the beat or psych/pop realm they had specialized in so far. And the artwork is setting the tone with the grab the ring front picture and especially with the excellent back cover picture featuring the band in concert in some underground club. This is really the first of string of classic albums and the tone is set by the wild title track, the cover of Byrds' best song.

But let's check out the four shorter tracks on the A-side: Landing is a solid hard rocker, harder than anything they had done until now, and Hay's voice and pronunciation (one of the best by non-English native speaker around the world) is simply perfect. You'd swear this is an early hard rock group somewhere between Uriah, Purple or Wishbone. Better to come is the 6-muns Devil's Servant, where to group show they've got all the chops, including dramatics and often changing tempo. Gerritzen's bass playing is outstanding, but guitarist Kooymans gets prime exposure from this track, where singer Hay also indulge into some flute playing. One Huge Road is about The Road and maybe the least convincing track, but segues into the superb Everyday's Torture, which indeed I could listen to almost everyday. Together with Servant, Torture are two typical semi-progressive tracks

B-side is filled by the Byrds song Eight Miles High, in one of its best ever version, even if in its sidelong version, it can't avoid some lengths and the succession of each member's respective solos. Certainly the first classic GE album, 8MH gets most of its reputation for the sidelong cover, but also the 4 tracks on the A-side are pure KILLERS ...

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