Tripsichord Music Box San Francisco Psych 180g 2LP

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Tripsichord Music Box - Tripsichord
(Italy Akarma AK-007/2) 1999.
Reissue of San Francisco Psych Legend.
180g Pure Virgin Vinyl.2LP set.
Gorgeous Psychedelic Art Gatefold Cover.
Deadstock Copy from Local store stock.
(We don't have extra copy)

The Tripsichord Music Box was one of the many
San Francisco bands managed and produced
by self-styled psychedelic svengali Matthew Katz
despite a slim body of recorded work that stands among
the most atmospheric and cosmic to emerge from
the Bay Area scene in the post-Summer of Love era,
they are sadly best-known as one of the so-called
"fake Grape" units unleashed on unsuspecting
audiences after Katz lost control of his former proteges,
the legendary Moby Grape. Originally dubbed the Ban,
Tripsichord Music Box formed in Lompoc, California in 1963
the group was founded by singer/guitarist Tony McGuire,
bassist Frank Straight, keyboardist Oliver McKinney,
and drummer Randy Guzman (sometimes credited as Randy Gordon
to avoid conflict due to his parents' management of the act).
According to the book Acid, Fuzz & Flowers, the Ban signed to
the Brent label to release their lone single, the garage rock stomper
"Bye-Bye," splitting soon after when McGuire was drafted
to serve in Vietnam; the remaining threesome then recruited
singer/bassist David Zandonatti, with Straight moving to lead guitar.
Rechristening themselves the Now, they relocated to Los Angeles,
sharing Sunset Strip stages with local acts including the Seeds
and the Strawberry Alarm Clock before signing to Milton Berle's
Embassy label for the 1967 effort "I Want."
The single attracted little attention,
however, and the Now relocated to San Francisco.
There they connected with Katz, who essentially discovered
Jefferson Airplane along with Moby Grape .Katz soon signed
the band to his San Francisco Sound label,
rechristening them the Tripsichord Music Box.
In late 1967 the group recorded three tracks "You're the Woman,"
"It's No Good" and "The Family Song"
later included on the Fifth Pipedream:
The San Francisco Sound, Vol. 1 compilation.
When Moby Grape severed ties to Katz, he laid claim to
their name, forcing Tripsichord Music Box to play a series
of live dates under the Moby Grape aegis .the deception ultimately
prompted McKinney to quit the band in 1969,
with guitarist Bill Carr signing on in his place.
Around this same time, Zandonatti's high school friend
Ron McNeeley also began sitting in on vocals, and after a 1969 single,
"Times and Seasons," Tripsichord dropped the "Music Box" from
their name in time to cut their sole full-length,
a self-titled cult classic issued in 1970.
Their dark yet ethereal music found few takers,
however, and the band relocated to Utah, splitting when Zandonatti
and McNeely joined Christian band the Sons of Mosiah,
a Mormon musical troupe managed by future
U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch. Ironically, Guzman later played drums
in a legitimate incarnation of Moby Grape.

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M/M/M

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