P FUNK PSYCH ACID Funkadelic "OSMIUM" PARLIAMENT - 1971 ACID GEORGE CLINTON LP
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$ 214
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May 26, 2013
Sold Date
May 21, 2013
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RARE!!! WITHDRAWN 1971 FUNKADELIC PARLIAMENT ACID CREW !
TOP COPY
PARLIAMENT
OSMIUM
\ USA - INVICTUS RECORDS - ST 7302
THE REAL DEAL! The ULTRA rare and buried deep 1971 very first issue ... it was withdrawn due to leagal problems, remaining extremely hard to find and ultimately collectible...
A TOP COPY = MINTY CLEAN ALL OVER!
Delving into sonic chasms of psychedelic funk and soul grooves... Invictus Records was the label which released the rare and hotly sought after "Osmium" -- the FIRST album by the American funk-psychedelic-soul band Parliament.The album is a little known, extremely rare release featuring all of the early Funkadelic crew. Released in 1970, it contains early versions of "I Call My Baby Pussycat", "Red Hot Mama", and "Loose Booty" which would be re-recorded for the killer Funkadelic albums. The album itself is an auditory stepping stone between the soulful grooves of Parliament and the psychedelic funk of Funkadelic. George Clinton and the band are in fine form, as evidenced by the raw grooves featured in "Breakdown". George Clinton was the leader of both Parliament and Funkadelic. The personnel of Parliament all played in Funkadelic's FIRST Album. Legal problems prevented "Osmium" from being distributed and was withdrawn, causing a serious shortage of copies that slipped into the retail market. The legal problems caused Parliament to to not be able to release another album until 1974. Sometimes Funkadelic was "darker," sometimes the opposite; sometimes Parliament was "drugs," sometimes Funkadelic was "sex." What's clear is that the distinction Clinton made between material for the two bands was private to him. The utter lack of daylight, overall, between the two groups prevents one from really considering this Parliament's "debut," as chronologically it follows at least one Funkadelic LP. But with four years to elapse between Osmium and its official followup, and indeed with a spiritual and musical crux more in line with the namesake Parliaments (the R&B outlet that gave way to P. Funk) than with the sister band, it's easy to look upon this obscure oddity as a work apart from the remainder of Clinton's insanely prolific '70s discography. That's a pity, because the record -- without qualification, without need for contextualization -- is brilliant, bearing all the crazed mad scientist genius marks of George Clinton at his best. It deserves to be as known and beloved as any of Parliament or Funkadelic's subsequent classics. Osmium is a thrilling, endlessly surprising record because its songs are all so individualistic, to the point they scarcely seem to belong together -- Parliament's first record is not merely the creation of a grand world, it's the creation of many. You can hear Clinton's joy in subverting and updating his Parliaments formula on "Put Love in Your Life," which opens as a street doo wop hymn but veers nonchalantly into spy-movie melody, organ-driven minimalism, and a triumphantly emotional vocal of soul and sex that underscores, toys with, makes something of the song's craziness and plodding drama, with its epic build and closing guiatr deconstruction subtly offset by shades of Tommy James. This is an LP of head-turning eclecticism and variance even when its genre experiments are not as explicit as the (completely convincing) funk-country-yodeling hybrid "Little Ole Country Boy." Each track is utterly distinct, the crew never stopping for a breather. opener "I Call My Baby Pussycat" is a noisy hard rock nursery rhyme that's somewhat nondescript musically, and the last two songs are cock rock meandering and sap, despite a memorable chrous and thrilling, sophisticated guitar work on closer "The Silent Boatman." Overall, the record scores big as the real-time establishment of an artiste, with most if not all of his motifs in place. The songs are lengthy, given room to breathe and wallow in the fear, dread, paranoia that Clinton would make a career of crafting. condemning, celebrating. Even stripped of all context, of all awareness of its place in pop history, though, Osmium is as intensely pleasurable a record as even this master could conceive. A treasure trove indeed, it deserves many times the reputation it holds.The album cover is pretty funny and interesting. All the members of the band dressed as Indians, Cowboys and Convicts, in a nice looking waterfall in the middle of a forest. - George Clinton - Vocals.
- Fuzzy Haskins - Vocals.
- Calvin Simon - Vocals.
- Grady Thomas - Vocals.
- Ray Davis - Vocals.
- Eddie Hazel - Guitar.
- Tawl Ross - Guitar.
- Billy Bass Nelson - Bass.
- Mickey Atkins - Organ.
- Tiki Fulwood - Drums.
I Call My Baby Pussycat (4:23)
Put Love In Your Life (5:09)
Little Old Country Boy (4:00)
Moonshine Heather (Takin' Care Of Buisness) (4:07)
Oh Lord, Why Lord/Prayer (5:01)
My Automobile (4:47)
There Is Nothing Before Me But Thang (3:59)
Funky Woman (2:58)
Livin' The Life (6:21)
The Silent Boatman (5:54)
CONDITION: The Cover: stiff, solid and colorful - looks lik it was on a top shelf for over 40 years ... a final collection copy, rated M- beautiful...no split seams, no bends, no writing
The Vinyl: all clean and clear M- tops and plays smooth as glass ... clean invictus labels too
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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