Randy Seol had an 8 track Muntz in his 1967 Firebird 400 as well as his 1968 Porsche Targa.
I never had one.
We shared a town home together so we often drove around together and listen to 8 track tapes. I never gave the quality much attention. Not like at home playing the vinyl records on the piece of furniture stereo we had.
I had not listened to our third album since it came out until it was released on CD by Universal Psych in Japan.
There were some tracks that I despised such as the title track and An Angry Young Man, but found that a good half of the record was pure SAC and pretty cool. Then I found myself appreciating the two Carol King songs as well.
I was not part of the fourth LP and have since listened to it. The exclusion of Lee Freeman/Ed King compositions bothers me. They were on a roll on the second and third albums. Oddly, all their names are on all the songs (attribute that to arrangements), but the ones Lee sings are the ones he wrote like Off Ramp Road Tramp.
Jimmy Pitman wrote and sang most of what you hear.
Some of those songs are nice and even SACish sounding.
I think it was a departure in style due in part to the dismay over the third album...bringing in outside writers and an orchestra.
So the court LP was a bit of retaliation...even though they were duped into doing the overtly commercial Good Morning Sarshine...they had to appease the record company...but without promotion like the previous two albums it died.
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: Hey guys and welcome back.By the way George,no
: apology necessary for the delay in your
: response to my last inquiry.I know you and
: the band have been hard at work what with
: making the new album and doing gigs.Anyway.I
: recently purchased a CD that was released
: back in 2013 that boasts your first two
: albums.Both the cover and a couple of
: pictures inside the accompanying booklet
: show some of the alternate takes of the
: first LP cover that George made reference to
: in his response to my last post.
: Now your first record has always been one
: of all time favorites,but I very much enjoy
: the more polished approach of "Wake
: Up...It's Toomorrow".Particualry
: impressed with "Nightmare of
: Percussion","Curse of the
: Witches" and "Sitting on A
: Star".Certainly the inclusion of the of
: the hit 45's "Tomorrow" and
: "Sit With the Guru" were highly
: instrumental in giving the album a really
: natural sounding flow as well as the
: "Black Butter" album closing
: trilogy.So now I find myself in a bit of a
: quandary in deciding which one of the first
: two releases I enjoy most.I still haven't
: heard "Seashell" or "Good
: Morning Starshine but I know
: "Seashell" was re-issued on vinyl
: and "Starshine" can be bought at
: least on CD on Amazon.As a matter of fact,I
: was browsing there one day and they actually
: had the 8-track versison of "Good
: Morning"!Did you ever particularly care
: for that format?Did you or any of the guys
: have any sizeable collection of these?
:
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