MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 2 x 180gr (black Vinyl) 45rpm halfspeed
CONDITION sealed
COVER Gatefold
CONDITION COVER M mint
COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that
SERIALNUMBER Yes
LIMITED Yes, to 3000 copies
MISCELLANEOUS Mono
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE --
Carmine Appice - drums, vocals
Tim Bogert - bass, vocals
Vince Martell - guitar, vocals
Mark Stein - lead vocals, keyboards
ticket to ride - 5:40
people get ready - 6:30
she's not there - 4:55
bang bang - 5:20
illusions of my childhood - part one - 0:20
you keep me hanging on - 7:20
illusions of my childhood - part two - 0:23
take me for a little while - 3:27
illusions of my childhood - part three - 0:22
eleanor rigby - 8:24
Permission to get weird is granted with Vanilla Fudge
Created during the peak of heightened chemical, musical, and social experimentation, the band's self-titled debut aims for sonic and mental expansion via psychedelic means
Consisting primarily of elongated covers of then-modern works by the Beatles, Supremes, Curtis Mayfield, and others, the album shape-shifts the familiar into original, uncharted excursions that lead to colorful dimensions
More than 50 years after its original release, the symphonic arrangements now sound more ambitious, direct, mesmerizing, and influential than ever before courtesy of a superior mono restoration
Mobile Fidelity's 45er unveils the baroque underpinnings, gorgeous harmonies, grinding soul, and low-end-plumbing organ riffs that help make the quartet's music inimitably unique
The timing of the off-kilter tempos and unpredictable improvisational movements is also cast into unpolluted light, with the collective's expert shading and deliberate tonality emerging as major components of the songs
Vastly improved, too, is the powerful, jazz-inspired drumming of Carmine Appice
Seated deep and wide in the vast soundstage, his playing illuminates the genius of Vanilla Fudge's arguably most valuable asset – a sense of dynamics and surprise that contributes to a rich, malt-like musical thickness true to the band's name
Psychedelia, yes, but seemingly more dense, absurd, slow, and groovy than that offered by any of its late 1960s contemporaries, and free of any of the cloying nature that immediately identifies retro acts as imitators
RECORDING 1967
ENGINEERING Bill Stahl, Joe Veneri
LABEL Atlantic
RE MASTERING Rob LoVerde
RE RELEASED 2020
AVERAGE RATING 41/2 Stars out of 5
PRESSING by RTI
MADE IN USA
STYLE Pop / Rock / Hard Rock / Psychedelic
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
