SKIP BIFFERTY RCA VICTOR RED SPOT RD-7941 PSYCH ROCK LP
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YOU ARE BIDDING ON A RARE
SELF TITLED LP
SKIP BIFFERTY
MONEY MAN
JEREMY CARABINE
WHEN SHE COMES TO STAY
GURU
COME AROUND
TIME TRACK
GAS BOARD UNDER DOG
INSIDE THE SECRET
ORANGE LACE
PLANTING BAD SEEDS
YOURS FOR AT LEAST 24
FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE STARS
PRINCE GERMANY THE FIRST
CLEARWAY 51
RELEASED ON RCA VICTOR RECORDS
RD-7941
MATRIX NUMBERS: WGBL-0029-1K,
WGBL-0030-1K
THIS MONO RECORD HAS RCA VICTOR RED SPOT RECORD LABELS
THE SIDE 1 VINYL HAS A COUPLE OF LIGHT SCRATCHES RESULTING IN A FEW VERY LIGHT CLICKS, THE SIDE 2 VINYL IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, THE SLEEVE HAS VERY SLIGHT RING/EDGE/CORNER WEAR, A FEW VERY SMALL LIGHT SCUFFS, VERY VERY SLIGHT LAMINATE PEEL ON THE FRONT, VERY SLIGHT DISCOLOURATION DUE TO AGE, AND VERY VERY SLIGHT SIGNS OF AGE/WEAR
WE DO COMBINE POSTAGE FOR ITEMS PURCHASED MEANING THAT WE DO PROVIDE POSTAGE DISCOUNTS ON MULTIPLE PURCHASES WHERE POSSIBLE, AS A RULE THE FIRST LP IS CHARGED AT STANDARD POSTAL RATE AND EACH ITEM THERE AFTER AT AROUND A 50% DISCOUNT, AND THE SAME GOES FOR 7" RECORDS, THERE MAY BE A FEW EXCEPTIONS TO THIS, SUCH AS BEING UNABLE TO COMBINE POSTAGE FOR A POSTER AND A RECORD, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US IF YOU ARE STILL UNSURE
ITEMS ARE PACKAGED IN STIFF CARD MAILERS WITH STIFFENERS, AND ARE REMOVED FROM SLEEVES PRIOR TO PACKING-UNLESS THE ITEM IS SOLD AS 'SEALED'
Skip Bifferty are something of a lesson in musical survival, and doubly so, since most of its members had viable and even highly successful careers in music stretching more than a decade after the group's breakup. The group was an offshoot of the latter-day Chosen Few, a Newcastle band that had been working together since 1962. They'd lost their bassist and lead guitarist in 1965, and organist Mick Gallagher kept the group going, recruiting John Turnbull on guitar and Colin Gibson on bass. With the departure of Chosen Few lead singer Rod Hood, Graham Bell joined as lead vocalist, but the time had come to close down the Chosen Few. Gallagher, Turnbull, Gibson, Bell, and drummer Tommy Jackman reorganized the band as Skip Bifferty.
Skip Bifferty was a psychedelic pop band that immediately found an enthusiastic audience at the Marquee Club, got Don Arden as manager (which led to a contract with RCA-UK), and were regular guests on John Peel's Top Gear. A series of singles followed, among them the hard-rocking "On Love" (their debut), but they redefined themselves more in the direction of flower power with their next few records, starting with "Happy Land." Although none of their singles charted, RCA allowed them to cut a full LP, which contained some notable psychedelic and experimental tracks. Their final single, "Man in Black," was taken off the album and was produced by Ronnie Lane and arranged by Steve Marriott.
A dispute with Arden caused the band to walk out en masse, and they next appeared together under the pseudonym Heavy Jelly, cutting an eight-minute single ("I Keep Singing That Same Old Song") that charted in a few European countries and ended up on the multi-artist sampler LP Nice Enough to Eat. They abandoned the name, however, when they learned of a Jackie Lomax-fronted outfit organized by John Moorhead that was already using it. Bell, Gallagher, and Turnbull worked together in Bell & Arc, and Gibson passed through Snafu, while Gallagher was a member of Frampton's Camel and subsequently played with Turnbull in Loving Awareness, which evolved into Ian Dury's Blockheads in the late '70s. Skip Bifferty's lone album was reissued on compact disc in the mid-'90s.
