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Rhino hand made is ok to work with, I bought their limited edition of Larry Fishers work. Forgot to post this when I got it, anyway :
Greetings Earthling!
This Monday, 22 May 2000, at Noon Pacific Daylight Savings Time [1900UTC], The Archivists at The Rhino Handmade Institute Of Petromusicologywill begin taking orders for DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE 'And TheRest Is History: The Elektra Recordings'.
DAVID PEEL was, and still is, a street musician and political activist from the Lower East Side of New York City. With a collection of friends who became his bandmates, and who were eponymously called THE LOWER EAST SIDE, he recorded two groundbreaking albums of social reflections, urban tales and hippie mythology for Elektra Records. The first, entitled 'Have A Marijuana', was released in 1968. The second, 'The American Revolution', was released in 1970. Both were, well, what can we say, just exactly as you would think they would be from their album titles: Musical Counterculture Manifestos Presented With Guitars And Grins.
DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE 'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings' collects both of these albums, remastered -of course- from the original tapes, as well as two previously unissued tracks recorded for, but not used on, the second album. It also includes a nifty informative booklet with Mr Peel's recollections of the recording of the albums and a track-by-track commentary on his composition of the songs.
Since their release three decades ago, legions of bipedal non-hoofed ungulates from all around the world have adopted several songs from these DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE albums as the equivalent of National Anthems. And, since these two Elektra albums, David has continued to record and release albums which express his unique vision and musical viewpoints as well as remain active as an icon, advocate and volunteer for social and political reform in which he strongly believes.
So return with us now to the time of pink prismed eyeglasses, hand-rolled patchouli incense and colorfully patched denims. To the time of co-ed bodypainting, cross-country Volkswagen expeditions and 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' played at full volume. To the time of peace, love and understanding before Warfare was conducted from Satellites, before generic names of Antibiotics were Household Words and before Cynicism became a full-time National Sport.
Both 'Have A Marijuana' and 'The American Revolution' have been out of print in the United States for about a quarter of a century and neither has ever before been released on compact disc anywhere on Planet Earth. How blessed then that The Archivists at The Rhino Handmade Institute Of
Petromusicology have painstakingly cultivated all of the original master tapes in order to again plant the creative seeds of 'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings' into your personal audio stash.
DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE 'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings' is available in an individually-numbered limited edition of 7,500 (seven thousand five hundred) copies. It is not distributed to any store on the planet. It is distributed directly from us to you. It is available only from The Archivists at the Rhino Handmade Website at: http://www.rhinohandmade.com
The complete track listing for DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE 'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings' is at the bottom of this e-mail. And sound samples for every track will be available on the Rhino Handmade Website this coming Monday at Noon.
When we again meet I shall certainly bring you word of the next Rhino Handmade release though, as I write this, The Archivists are not yet certain whether it will be long out-of-print 1950s treasures from JACK WEBB or a previously unreleased album from the mid-1990s by THE SKY
KINGS. (As you should know by now, The Archivists are a very wacky and very musically diverse lot.) Anyway between now and then I promise you that, if nothing else, we will
flip a coin.
Always Blissfully Yours,
R W Hand
Curator
e-mail: mr.hand@rhino.com
[Mr Hand carefully reads each and every e-mail you send but, regretfully, cannot always personally answer each one.
DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE
'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings'
Catalogue Number: RHM2 7713
ALL TIMES APPROXIMATE
[Approximately 67:45 Total Time]
1. Mother Where Is My Father? 3:07
2. I Like Marijuana 5:17
3. Here Comes A Cop 2:36
4. I've Got Some Grass 0:38
5. Happy Mother's Day 2:06
6. Up Against The Wall 1:44
7. I Do My Bawling In The Bathroom 6:51
8. The Alphabet Song 2:27
9. Show Me The Way To Get Stoned 2:28
10. We Love You 3:15
Tracks 1 to 10 taken from Elektra album EKS-74032 'HAVE A MARIJUANA'
11. Lower East Side 3:12
12. Pledge Of Allegiance 0:36
13. Legalize Marijuana 2:57
14. Oink, Oink 3:48
15. I Want To Get High 4:59
16. I Want To Kill You 4:22
17. Girls Girls Girls 4:33
18. Hey Mr. Draft Board 4:31
19. God 3:03
Tracks 11 to 19 taken from Elektra album EKS-74069 'THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION'
21. I Am A Runaway 3:34
Tracks 20 and 21 are PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED <1970>
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