NEW TWEEDY BROTHERS WESTCOAST PRIVATE GARAGE PSYCH MONSTER LP NM unique cover

	£		18
	$		24

Still in shrink, this vintage reissue of this legendary album with unique cover art. #93 of 300 handnumbered copies. Record and sleeve are in near mint condition.



Here's a review from markprindle.com:
The New Tweedy Brothers recorded only one (terrible) single and this brief 10-song LP before fading away into the woodworks of a dream. Nobody knows anything at all about them aside from their names and influences and what they're all doing now and stuff, but I tell you what: if you're in the market for an unknown old San Francisco band, these guys sure beat ass-hell out of the Grateful Dead and every Jefferson Airplane album aside from Surrealistic Pillow. And Moby Grape? Don't make me LAUGH! That bald bonehead can't even win a rivalry with Eminem, let alone form a duo with Shaun Ryder, so d

Although clearly very young and untutored, The New Tweedy Brothers made an honest effort to incorporate all kinds of different types of music into their set, from electric folk-rock to sleazy swing jazz to jugband oldtimey music to basic Stonesy choogle rock to psychedelic experimentation incorporating group chant/singing, viola scraping and full-on dramatic freakout (with triangle!). Not all of the experiments hold up forty years later (somehow I don't think the dark psych epic "Her Darkness In December" was intended to make the listener crack up at how fuckin' stupid and full of shit it is), and a few of the songs are so underwritten you can almost hear the studio clock ticking away as they struggled to come up with ten whole songs (Rock on, "I'd Go Anywhere"! Keep on not really having a melody!). However, spread among this screwy mess of lead electric pickin', rhythm chord skrankin' and vocals by must-be-17-year-olds are a couple of amazing songs that rival Buffalo Springfield in the anger-folk-psych department (ie "Somebody's Peepin'" and "I Can See It") and a few others that honestly sound like top-rate '90s lo-fi efforts - quieter and more amateurishly-sung than your favorite '60s hits, but very interestingly composed and arranged, full of creative ideas that are about 75% effective (egg "I See You're Looking Fine")(egexie "Somone Just Passed By")(eg-ie-eg-ie-o "Wheels Of Fortune").

Though short, this is a seriously interesting and worthwhile addition to your '60s folk/psych/rock collection. They love doing group vocals (harmony or otherwise), they're wicked cool at transmogressing their basic electric guitar/bass/drums setup by bringing in a harp (a REAL harp, not harmonica), a viola or whatever else they can find lying about, and no two songs on the record sound alike (especially the one where they all hum "Pomp & Circumstance" together at the beginning) (oh, and the one where the entire 'lyrics' component involves a guy wordlessly singing the same notes he's playing on the guitar). Certainly some of the numbers are more developed than others, but even the underwritten tracks make you feel good about the fact that they were able to release an LP before being forgotten forever by everybody on Earth including the band members themselves. Wait - Who the hell am I talking about?

Read more about this rare album in the SF Weekly

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