WARHORSE - 1972 LP RED SEA ORIG GERMANY VERTIGO SWIRL 6360 066 VG+
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WARHORSE - 1972 LP RED SEA - ORIGINAL 1ST PRESS ON VERTIGO SWIRL 6360 066 - MANUFACTURED IN GERMANY - NICK SIMPER OF DEEP PURPLE - ASHLEY HOLT VOCALS - RECORD HAS SOME GENERAL WEAR BUT OVERALL IN SOLID VG+ CONDITION - GATEFOLD COVER IS WELL-PRESERVED NO HOLES N CUTS NO SPLITS EXCEPT FOR SOME SCUFFING OF THE SPINE AND WRITING IN BIRO PEN SOME PREVIOUS OWNER LEFT ON THE INSIDE OF THE COVER AND LABELS TOO (INCLUDES HIS NAME AND TELEPHONE NUMBER SO YOU CAN CALL HIM AND TELL HIM HE IS A JERK) - ALL IN ALL NICE COLLECTIBLE ITEM (SEE PICTURES) - RARITY SCALE R2
SOME INFO FROM INTERNET ON THIS RELEASE:
Line-up: Ashley Holts, voc/ Peter Parks, gtr/ Mac Poole, dr/ Nick Simper, bsgtr/ Frank Wilson, keyb.
Production: Jan Kimmet.
Cover-art by Rick Breach.
Liner notes: by Jan Kimmet.
Cover manufactured by unknown.
Recorded at De Lane Lea Studios.
Track listing A-side: Red Sea (Warhorse) 4'17''/ Back In Time (Warhorse) 7'50''/ Confident But Wrong (Warhorse) 4'44''/ Feeling Better (Warhorse) 5'31''. Track listing B-side: Sybilla (Warhorse) 5'31''/ Mouthpiece (Warhorse) 8'03''/ I [Who Have Nothing] (Donida + Jerry leiber + Mike Stoller) 5'03''.
The Vertigo logo on front is white.
Matrix number A-side:
6360066 1Y*1 420 1 1 2
Matrix number B-side:
6360066 2Y*1 420 1 1 2
Rarity scale: R2
A modest improvement compared to the debut, this still suffers from too many conventional rock gestures to convince some thirty-odd years later. Surely the guitar parts on Back in time sounds fresh still, but mostly this is strongly in Deep Purple or Uriah Heep territory, with neither the drive of the former nor the aplomb of the latter. Recommended strictly to hard-core aficionados of the genre, who probably find here all they wish for. The claim of the liner-notes that Simper after his stint with Deep Purple is now ''creating completely new dimensions with his talent'' is as hilarious as it gets.
Again a design that mirrors around the spine, but as it is a ship, it's not as annoying as usual: the two halves make a whole. Until you start to look closer and see that the water is flowing in two different directions because of it. On the bow the five gentlemen are drawn, the rear carries a (war?) horse. If it wasn't so stiffly executed, it could have been a nice image.
The lettering is strident and fits in very nicely.
Inside some sort of seated helenistic goddess of the sea appears, again in stark symmetry, with triton and shield. On the shields the rascals are depicted on small black and white photographs.
Notes: The cover inside states ambiguously ''all titles composed by Warhorse'', although I [who have nothing] has the right composers credits in brackets.
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