STEPPEULVENE/Hip/Danish Psychedelic Prog Monster/1967 Metronome BP 7701/VG+ LP

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Artist(s): STEPPEULVENE - LP

Title: "Hip" 

Release date: 1970

Label/Cat#: Metronome  -  BP 7701

Grade: Vinyl: VG+   /   Cover: VG+

ADD. GRADE INFO:  Vinyl is VG+. Has some visible but non audible surface scratches. Music is loud and is listenable all the way through. Sounds overall good, but plays here and there with a little background hiss/noise as expected from an old record. Laminated flipback cover is a strong VG+. Only downgraded to VG+ due to SOC/WOC. Has a S sticker in upper left corner on front, and same S on upper right corner on back. WOC (small letters, really nothing) But overall nice. Ligh/darkblue Metronome label with "15269" at 12 o clock and BP 7701 at the bottom. (see photo) 

INFO:  Danish psychedelic gem. 1967 album from underground prog-rock-psych artifact with the highest of ratings among in-the-know collectors. The importance of this album can only be underrated...strong songs throughout and a certified classic. Steppeulvene (Danish language for Steppenwolf) was a Danish psych/folk/rock/prog  crew which despite its short life, has become the icon for the Danish hippie music scene. This their only album "Hip" first released in 1967 was the first psychedelic rock album in DK and has attained near-mythological status in the history of Danish rock. 

The group was the result of a collaboration between lead singer the late Eik Skaløe, who had traveled in the Orient in the early 1960's and wrote the Bob Dylan-inspired, highly symbolic and almost surreal lyrics, and Stig Møller (guitar, vocal), who wrote the drawling, psychedelic, folk-influenced music. The other members were Søren Seirup (bass) and Preben Devantier (drums). 

A tour in October 1967 came to a chaotic end when a concert was cut short by the police and the group members were arrested for marijuana use. Shortly after being released, Eik Skaløe went on a journey to Afghanistan/Nepal (on the so-called "hippie trail") and was found dead near the Indian/Pakistani border in October 1968, apparently after a drug-induced suicide. Back in Denmark the rest of the group attempted to carry on, but, lacking the characteristic Skaløe as a front figure, the hipsters quickly dissolved.

Tracks Listing 

Side A: 1. Dunhammeraften 5:25, 2. Itsi-bitsi 4:54, 3. Til nashet 5:23,  4. Jensen 6:40 

Side B: 1. 0-0-0 5:02, 2. Lykkens pamfil 5:44, 3. Kvinde kom ud 4:03, 4. Kun for forrykte 5:19

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