THE BOSTON TEA PARTY - (S/T) - 1968 BossTown - Psychedelic - Flick-Disc - SHRINK
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THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
“THE BOSTON TEA PARTY”
Flick-Disc FLS 45,000
1968
NM / NM
TILL IN SHRINK
FIRST PRESSING
ONLY COPY STILL IN SHRINK ON EBAY AS OF 5-7-2017.
Although this psychedelic band is quite often associated with the BossTown Sound, they were from Burbank, CA and formed in late 1964. It’s interesting that most American pop stars and Top 40 bands got pretty much blown off the US hit lists by what the press called The British Invasion (exceptions being The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons and Bob Dylan), Only a few bands successfully combatted the Brits (Sir Douglas Quintet, Sa being to prominent ones).m The Sham & The Pharaohs. This band didn’t fare as well but their name was certainly appropriate. They didn’t release an LP until they dropped the “British sound” and morphed into a psychedelic unit (1967-8). THIS LP STANDS UP and finding a NM copy still in shrink wrap is quite rare. Also, this is a FIRST PRESSING and is exactly the sound the BOSTON TEA PARTY ANTED THEIR FANS AND FRINDS TO HEAR, not the brittle sound of digital CDs or the remixed / remastered sound of later reissues. Stick with analog. It will sound REAL, and sure to increase in value over the years.
Stored vertically in a smoke-free environment for 49 years.
Notes on the Boston Tea Party from the word.press web site: “This album, released in 1968 on the Flick Disc label, constitutes most of The Boston Tea Party’s recorded output, apart from a few singles. The cover suggests a psychedelic (or at least colorful) affair, but the record, production- and instrumentation-wise, is more straightforward garage pop, with a strong organ presence and murky presentation. Songwriting-wise, though, it’s less straightforward–for a band’s debut album of completely original material, The Boston Tea Party seem to have definitely found their voice or whatever, and only a few tracks later on fall into typical low-production rock fare.
Opener “I’m Tellin’ You” is like a presentation of the band’s manifesto–“We’d like to tell you, you’d better listen, we’ve got that somethin’ that you’ve been missin'”–which is kind of goofy and bland, but the tune is good and it features a cool call-and-response coda and what is probably one of my favorite guitar solos of all time. “Straighten Up and Fly Right”, “Fantasy”, “Free Service” and “Please Be Glad” are the band at their best, at times calling to mind a carparkier Mothers of Invention (particularly on “Fantasy”), but largely defying ready comparison (or at least comparison that would diminish it). “I Found a Way” is the anomaly of the record, an upbeat toe-tapper, as close to breezy as the production-of-the-time would allow. It’s great, though; Mike Stevens (guitarist, songwriter) had a gift for chord progressions, and the rhythm section keeps it particularly lively. “We Have Already Died” is the most psychedelic track, owing to some feedback and studio trickery; the melody and lyrics are great, and the track would be right at home on a Nuggets comp.
Their film appearance (mentioned below) would be in 1969’s The Cycle Savages (“The leader of a biker gang takes exception to an artist sketching them, so he makes plans to crush the artist’s hands”).
Visually, The Boston Tea Party is a knock-out (in American-International film mentioned above) but there the gimmicks end. After all is said and done, it’s the music – a pure, unique, accomplished sound of the band that reminds collectors of the value here."
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