MONO 1967 ORIG THE RABBLE UNDERGROUND ROCK GENIUS HEAVY BLUES ZAPPA PSYCH LP

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• ORIGINAL 1967 "TRANS WORLD" FIRST PRINT ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
• THE RABBLE
• "THE RABBLE ALBUM"
  
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• CANADA - TRANS WORLD RECORDS ((MONO)) TW 6700
  

1. QUITE RARE Canadian "TRANS WORLD" (((MONO))) 1967 Original 
2. Impressive electric guitar led underground rock quartet featuring 'mad-cap' tunes amid plenty of twists and turns along the 'bending' highway
   
3. original compositions
4. The Rabble were a talented band for sure, to the point in getting a USA contract as well. This album, THE RABBLE ALBUM was also released on state-side "Roulette Records, with a completely different cover design and different songs...though scarce, is nowhere near rarity status as this '67 "Trans World" release, especially with the earliest YELLOW 1967 Trans World label
   
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6. Drums, backing Vocals – Teddy McMahon
   Lead Guitar – Mike Harris (19)
   Vocals, Guitar [rhythm] – John Pimm
   Bass – Tim Charbonneau
   
7. The Rabble were four hip, talented "heads" from Pointe Claire on Montreal Canada's west island, playing cool and groovy song infected melodic/rocker tunes, all oddly eccentric and alternativ (for example) to the Haunted's straight-on garage rock. 
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9. The RABBLE's first album is a psychedelic-rock creation sadly languishing in near extinct oblivion, even when scads of American and international lesser collectible LP's are scraped from the bottom of the dustbin being far lesser sixties psychedelic relics. So what gives?
   
10. The RABBLE were formed in 1966 by leader/guitarist Mike Harris and did the requisite club and bar appearances across Montreal island, eventually playing before 4,000 people at the Queen's Park love-in in Toronto on May 22, 1967. But unlike other bands of the era, who were trying to establish rock as a serious medium (as evinced no doubt by the emergence of rock criticism at about the same time), The Rabble were more eccentric, madcap, yet highly talented, flourishing their music with wit,sarcasm and whimsy while crafting highly rated self composed material.
    
    Their single Golden Girl was a highlight on the Montreal airwaves during the technicolor summer of 1967. They won over a restless audience at the Paul Sauvé Arena when headliners "Cream" didn't show, The Rabble walked off the stage triumphantly – in matching underwear. Their music, at its best, crossed a mix of infectious/catchy Beatlesque hooks and a no-barriers attack on Zappa's Mothers of Invention.
    
    The first Rabble single, a psychedelic rocker "I’m Alaboundy Bam", got little chart action. The follow-up, a slice of catchy cool-pop-perfection number "Golden Girl," was a different story.
    
11. ‘‘That thing just started popping,’’ group leader John Pimm said. ‘‘We started winning all these music battle of the bands’’
    
    The Rabble seemed unstoppable. But beyond the groovy-hooks, they delivered shock value with musical anarchy and experimentation, too – particularly in songs like the Zappa-esque "Black Potato," the Eastern-psychedelic flavored drama of "Rising of the Sun" and the sheer free-for-all madness of "The Energy Ritual," Harris’s 11-minute album-closing 'acid-rock' suite.
    
    Elsewhere, The Rabble fly their freak flag in full colors. 'Black Potato', for instance, is a tribal paean, replete with jungle-like chants, to the humble spud, the "almighty black potato". 'The Crushing Hand of 'Mother' mixes odd time changes with social commentary and the Zappa-esque prescience of "your mother's got a hold on you, yeah / controls all the things that you do, yeah" before snapping into a staccato guitar riff and then back to its languid lament. And then there's the absurd 'Can I Squeeze', which belts out some of the nimblest guitar rhythms before popping the gross-out question of the century, "Can I squeeze your boil? / Can I crunch it, munch it, squeeze it, eat it?"
    
    The Rabble jams it up at times with heavy blues sludge considered the '68 era 'happening' sounds (ala Cream) at the time, which adds to this overlooked charmer, should have been reissued a long time ago.
12. I Can Still Hear Them Laughing
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    Black Potatoe
14. 
    Nothin’ But
15. 
    Rising Of The Sun
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    The Crushing Hand Of Mother
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    Golden Girl
18. 
    We’ll Bring You Flowers
19. 
    Can I Squeeze
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    The Energy Ritual: 
21. I. House Of Cards 
22. II What? 
23. III. Collapse Of The Sugar Plum Fairies 
24. IV. Genesis         
25.   CONDITION:
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27. The cover: rated: M- / "EX" (excellent) barely easily-acceptable prior handling in triple THICK original cardboard cover; strange design having wood-like crate markings (not wear) = original design, there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...

1. The vinyl: Rated: M- very nice, all shiny smooth, playing flawless all the way, 59 years going tops-strong artifact. Yellow "Trans World' labels are clean