VALHALLA SEALED 1969 ORGINAL UNITED ARTIST UAS 6730
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U.S. BUYERS SHIPPING MEDIA $ 5.00 PRIORITY $ 6.00 BOTH WITH A TRACKER. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PAY ACTUAL COST ( ESTIMATE $ 14.00 - $ 16). COMBINED SHIPPING HONORED. SEALED ORGINAL. COVER HAS UPPER RIGHT CORNER CLIP. Valhalla's only album was a mix of end-of-the-'60s psychedelic and heavy rock influences. It has its enjoyable aspects, especially for those who enjoy late-'60s combinations of bluesy hard organ and bluesy hard rock guitar. In its slightly overreaching, over-serious feel with a hint of religious pomposity, it's often slightly reminiscent of early Deep Purple and -- more distantly, especially in the fairly penetrating organ -- the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Graham Bond and Lee Michaels. Throw in some more guitar-oriented hard rock with songwriting and riffs reminiscent of Cream and the "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago"-era Yardbirds, and it's a little surprising to learn that this band came from Long Island, not Britain. At times, too, the record takes strange right turns into more orchestrated, skewed pop and jazzy tempos, as if they were trying to get a little more mainstream but couldn't quite iron out their more uncommercial aspirations. Some faint symphonic pretensions both add and detract in some ways, but there are some pretty commanding lead vocals and organ, which put it a notch above many other secondary psychedelic albums of this kind. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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