MONSTER 1968 ORIG "TWENTIETH CENTURY ZOO" - THUNDER - HARD FUZZ PSYCH DRAGONFLY
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ORIGINAL 1968 FIRST PRESS
HEAVY BLUES-FUZZ-PSYCH !
Final Collection Copy
TWENTIETH CENTURY ZOO
T h u n d e r On A Clear Day
\ USA - VAULT RECORDS - SLP 122
Final Collection Copy!!!
STILL VERY under-valued when pound for pound is heads and tails BETTER than similar rarities that are sell for more ...NO weak tracks, brutal fuzz drenched in killer psychedelic hardrock "tunes" with melodic overtones..."killer" rated ...
Always sought after, file next to the US "DRAGONFLY" LP on megaphone ...Original 1968 first pressing of a cool fuzz/psych monster:
Hailing from the same gila monster-infested Arizona desert wilderness that produced an unlikely harvest of fertile bands (Alice Cooper's Spiders, Kennelmus, Phil & The Frantics) the Twentieth Century Zoo were the center of what was happening to music as 1966 blossomed into 1967-68. These Phoenix mushroom-heads stirred the savage fuzzback-laced sounds of the garage generation into the brain-baking trippiness of the emerging SF ballroom scene and made a concoction all their own! *Bob Sutko (vocals, harmonica),*Allan Chitwood (bass),
*Greg Farley (guitar),
*Paul "Skip" Ladd (lead guitar),
*Randy Wells (drums).
This is band's sole release stands as one of our favorite slices of '60s psychedelia. A late-sixties psychedelic group, Twentieth Century Zoo were the first such band from Phoenix to get an album released and nationally distributed, even if that LP was on a small L.A. label, and not many people would hear it.
The band evolved from The Bitter Sweets, which had a couple of singles on the small Caz label, the first of these, "You Don't Remember, " being respectable psych-punk in the mold of the Music Machine.
In late 1968, the group recorded this sole album in Los Angeles for Vault Records (SLP-122), "Thunder On A Clear Day", featuring elongated fuzz-sustain riffs and heavy organ. At times there was also a hard blues-rock feel, which could break into tedium on longer tracks, such as the ten-minute "Blues With a Feeling."
Twentieth Century Zoo got to open for several bigger bands, such as Iron Butterfly and Blue Cheer, and did one more single for Vault before breaking up in 1970. Primarily hard rock fueled psychedelic rock throughout with brief mellow moments. Featuring extended amounts of fuzzy liquid riffs and solos, and just a trip to the mind when the needle drops on this album.
The highlights are all over the place including the opener, "Quiet Before The Storm". As soon as the shimmering organ brings the light upon the clear blue sky, with mellow lyrics in the beginning the storm strikes with amazing sounds of fuzz. Followed by "Rainbow" which is my other highlight with its fast paced, heavy riffs and echoing guitar solos just makes this one hell of a killer high speed trip! "It's All In My Head" is another psych piece that takes you to another dimension. Killer album for its time indeed!
Quiet Before the Storm
Rainbow
Bullfrog
Love in Your Face
You Don't Remember
It's All in My Head
Blues with a Feeling
CONDITION: The cover: solid all over, rated M- a keeper collection copy. The front and back cover have fresh original colors, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... collection worthy rarity ...
The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated: M- expect play grade to clear = very enjoyable audio...NO distracting surface problems ... both VAULT labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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