Loading ...The GTO’s – Permanent Damage / Mort Garson – Black Mass / TONTO’s Expanding Head Band – Zero Time
By Evan ~ April 6th, 2008. Filed under: collector scum.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. It’s a pleasure to be here once again, sharing some rare and out-of-print recordings with you. Each of the following albums have passed through the store in recent days/weeks. I suggest you track them all down immediately and blow your paychecks on them.
GTO’s were a so-called girl-group consisting of groupies familiar to the Los Angeles music scene, most of whom are now dead but one of whom visited the store recently. They tried to sleep with as many pop and rock stars as they could. One of them wrote the tell-all book, “I’m With the Band.” Anyway, the girls caught the attention of Frank Zappa in the late sixties. That guy had an eye for weird, fucked up talent, let me tell you. AllMusic calls the album “more sociological than musical in nature.” The record is a combination of wild conversations and strangely appealing tunes, including one inspired by Captain Beefheart’s shoes. Zappa produced this album, which contains appearances by…Jesus Christ, just some of the biggest names in rock music. Zappa is credited with playing tambourine, Mothers of Invention members Ian Underwood and Don Preston added keyboard and synth parts, Davy Jones (Monkees), Lowell George (Little Feet), Jeff Beck (Yardbirds), and Rod Stewart also contributed. This is one you have to hear, even if its just for the sheer insanity of it all. You can find it on CD from Amazon.com for fifty dollars, or the LP (released on the Zappa-owned Straight Records) on eBay for about two-hundred bucks.
GTO’s
Permanent Damage
MediaFire Download Link
Track Listing:
01. The Eureka Springs Garbage Lady
02. Miss Pamela and Miss Sparky discuss STUFFED BRAS and some of their early gym class experiences
03. Who’s Jim Sox?
04. Kansas and the BTO’s
05. The Captain’s Fat Theresa Shoes
06. Wouldn’t It Be Sad If There Were No Cones?
07. Do Me In Once And I’ll Be Sad, Do Me In Twice And I’ll Know Better (Circular Circulation)
08. The Moche Monster
09. TV Lives
10. Rodney
11. I Have A Paintbrush In My Hand To Color A Triangle
12. Miss Christine’s First Conversation With The Plaster Casters Of Chicago
13. The Original GTO’s
14. The Ghost Chained To The Past, Present, And Future (Shock Treatment)
15. Love On An Eleven Year Old Level
16. Miss Pamela’s First Conversation WIth The Plaster Casters of Chicago
17. I’m In Love With The Ooo-Ooo Man
Someone came into the store yesterday looking for Wozard Of Iz, and we got to talking about Canadian electronic musician Mort Garson, and this album in particular. Unfortunately, I couldn’t help the customer locate the record, and I’m sorry he missed out on such a cool listening experience. Mort Garson was a Julliard trained pianist and arranger who worked with the Lettermen, Doris Day and Laurence Harvey in his early days before recording a handful of hard-to-find electronic albums in the late ’60s and early ’70s. According to an early interview Robert Moog, while he was showcasing a synthesizer at an expo, Garson (who was even then in his mid-40s) was the first person to use one of his instruments on a commercial recording (the album, Cosmic Sounds, is credited to The Zodiac). For the awesomely creepy, occult-themed Black Mass, Garson worked under the name of “Lucifer”. Not much is known about the production of this album, but I think it is Garson’s crowning achievement, light-years beyond Electronic Hair Pieces or the aforementioned Wozard of Iz. It is, perhaps, better than any horror film’s score. Hear for yourself.
Mort Garson
Black Mass / Lucifer”
MediaFire Download Link
Track Listing:
01. Solomon’s Ring
02. The Ride of Aida (Voodoo)
03. Incubus
04. Black Mass
05. The Evil Eye
06. Exorcism
07. The Philosopher’s Stone
08. Voices of the Dead (The Medium)
09. Witch Trial
10. ESP
TONTO (the Original New Timbral Orchestra), is the name of the world’s first (and still the largest) multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer, which was designed and constructed by Malcolm Cecil. Essentially, it was a series III Moog synth, but expanded and customized with other manufacturer’s models. TONTO albums are renowned for their incredible synthesizer sounds, and have garnered fans from all genre’s of music across the world. In fact, one of the biggest supporters of TONTO’s Expanding Head Band’s first album Zero Time was Stevie Wonder. When TONTO Rides Again (which included the original Zero Time LP) was released in 1996, Wonder wrote, “How great it is at a time when technology and the science of music is at its highest point of evolution, to have the reintroduction of two of the most prominent forefathers in this music be heard again. It can be said of this work that it parallels with good wine. As it ages it only gets better with time. A toast to greatness… a toast to Zero Time… forever.” An article from a 1984 issue of Keyboard Magazine asserted, “…this collaboration changed the perspectives of black pop music as much as The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper altered the concept of white rock”. That’s all well and good, but what’s best about Zero Time is its ability to let you get really high and lose yourself in the mind-blowing sonic explorations. You can find WLP (white-label promos) of this album all over the Internet. We also have a re-issue with different cover art at the store for $9.99.
TONTO’s Expanding Head Band
Zero Time
MediaFire Download Link
Track Listing:
01. Cybernaut
02. Jetsex
03. Timewhys
04. Aurora
05. Riversong
06. Tama
April 6th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Gotta hand it to you Boy Blunder, as someone who spent much of their youth scouring out obscure record stores up and down the East Coast, but you are really liveing an “empire records” life out there, aren’t you?
Did Nikki get the pregnancy confirmed by the doctor yet? You might have to get a real job now that the families on the way…
April 6th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
or was it “High Fidelity”?
April 6th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Black Mass linky no worky
April 7th, 2008 at 2:42 am
try it now, sam daddy.