ULTIMATE SPINACH THE BOX - 3CD + POSTER + BOOKLET. READ ABOUT IT.

Description: SUCH A DEAL. ULTIMATE SPINACH – THE BOX (1967-1969/2000). 20 BIT MASTERING. IT IS LIKE NEW. NO OUTER SHRINK WRAP. ALL CD'S ARE SEALED. ALL PERFECT - INCLUDING BOOKLET AND POSTER. IT IS OOP AND HTF. IT IS EXTREMELY RARE AND VERY COLLECTIBLE. A TRUE INVESTMENT. I WILL MAIL IT TO YOU WITH TENDER LOVING CARE, FROM LOS ANGELES, FOR FREE. YOU WILL LOVE IT. OK, YOU CAN STOP SMILING NOW. I WAS EXTREMELY LUCKY LOCATING THIS HIDDEN “LIKE NEW” TREASURE, WHICH COST ME A PRETTY PENNY. IT WILL INCREASE IN VALUE LIKE A RARE PIECE OF (UNFRAMED) ART, A FINE WINE (WITHOUT A LABEL), OR EVEN A PAIR OF WORN OUT AND SMELLY JORDAN SNEAKERS (WITHOUT LACES). SO, I AM DONE WITH THE SALES PITCH AND WILL LET THE “HIP DEATH GODDESS” HAVE THE FINAL WORDS… “BUY IT NOW”. CD 1: Ultimate Spinach 1967 1. Ego Trip - 3:12 2. Sacrifice Of The Moon (In Four Parts) - 3:45 3. Plastic Raincoats/Hung-Up Minds - 2:55 4. (Ballad Of The) Hip Death Goddess - 8:12 5. Your Head Is Reeling - 3:39 6. Dove In Hawk's Clothing - 3:53 7. Baroque #1 - 4:47 8. Funny Freak Parade - 2:34 9. Pamela - 3:10 10.Your Head Is Reeling (Mono Version) - 3:38 11.(Ballad Of The) Hip Death Goddess (Mono Version) - 8:18 CD 2: Behold And See 1968 1. Gilded Lamp Of The Universe - 3:04 2. Visions Of Your Reality - 5:50 3. Jazz Thing - 6:40 4. Mind Flowers - 9:38 5. Where You're At - 3:12 6. Suite: Genesis Of Beauty (In Four Parts) - 9:45 7. Fifth Horseman Of The Apocalypse - 5:58 8. Fragmentary March Of Green - 6:38 9. Mind Flowers (Mono Version) - 9:38 10.Fragmentry March Of Green (Mono Version) - 6:38 CD 3: Ultimate Spinach III 1969 1. (Just Like) Romeo And Juliet (Richard "Popcorn" Wylie, Thelma Williams) - 2:34 2. Somedays You Just Can't Win (Ted Myers, Tony Scheuren) - 3:23 3. Daisy (Jeff Baxter) - 2:21 4. Sincere (Ted Myers) - 3:32 5. Eddie's Rush (Ultimate Spinach) - 6:52 6. Strange Life Tragicomedy (Ted Myers, Tony Scheuren) - 4:13 7. Reasons (Tony Scheuren) - 3:52 8. Happiness Child (Ted Myers) - 4:42 9. Back Door Blues (Ted Myers) - 2:56 10.The World Has Just Begun (Ted Myers, Tony Scheuren) - 3:20 Ian Bruce-Douglas - Vocals, Acoustic, Electric Guitars, 12-String Bass, Electric Piano, Organ, Keyboards, Sitar, Vibraphone (Disc 1 And 2) Barbara Jean Hudson - Acoustic, Electric Guitars, Vocals Keith Lahteinen - Drums, Percussion, Vocals (Disc 1) Richard Nese - Acoustic, Electric Bass, Feedback (Disc 1 And 2) Geoffrey Winthrop - Acoustic, Electric Guitars, Feedback, Acoustic, Electric Sitar, Vocals Ted Myers - Guitar, Vocals (Disc 1 And 3) Russell Levine - Drums, Percussion (Disc 2 And 3) Carol Lee Brit - Vocals (Disc 2) Mike Levine - Bass (Disc 3) Jeff Baxter – Lead, Bowed, Steel Guitars, Vibraphone, Vocals (Disc 3) Tony Scheuren - Organ, Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals (Disc 3) Ultimate Spinach was one of the most well-known, and perhaps the most notorious, of the groups to be hyped as part of the "Boss town Sound" in 1968. The name itself guaranteed attention, as one of the most ludicrous and heavy-handed "far out" monikers of the psychedelic era, even outdoing formidable competition such as the Peanut Butter Conspiracy. Although the group were competent musicians with streaks of imagination, their albums were generally poor third cousins to the West Coast psychedelic groups that served as their obvious inspirations. Ultimate Spinach was produced by veteran arranger Alan Lorber, a main architect of the "Boss town Sound." In September 1967, he announced a marketing plan in the top music trade papers to make Boston, in his own words (from his liner notes to Big Beat's reissue of Ultimate Spinach's first album), "a target city for the development of new artists from one geographical location." This automatically insured that Lorber and his groups would be the subject of some derision from the hip underground, since vital regional music scenes such as San Francisco psychedelia (which the Boss town sound often seemed to be mimicking) have to happen on their own, rather than being manufactured. MGM was the label that released most of the Boss town Sound groups, and it was through MGM that Lorber arranged to distribute two of the bands he produced, Orpheus and Ultimate-Spinach. On the first two of their three albums, Ultimate Spinach was utterly dominated by leader Ian Bruce-Douglas, who wrote all of the material, sang the majority of the lead vocals, and played a wide variety of instruments, most frequently electric keyboards. Their self-titled debut, released in 1967, was a seriously intended psychedelic stew, with inadvertent comically awkward results. Bruce-Douglas' songs tended to be either dippily, humorlessly cosmic, or colored by equally too-serious finger pointing at mainstream society. The music aped the songwriting forms and guitar/keyboard textures of West Coast psychedelic stars the Doors, the Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe & the Fish, but sounded like ham-handed pastiches. Bruce-Douglas created some sleek, weedy electric keyboard lines on tracks like "Sacrifice of the Moon," but was sometimes so imitative of Country Joe & the Fish's first album that he crossed the line into plagiarism, as on "Baroque #1," with its close similarities to Country Joe's "The Masked Marauder." There were more graceful touches in the occasional vocals by guitarist Barbara Hudson and a Baroque-classical tinge to some of the arrangements, and the album did actually sell fairly well. Behold & See Behold and See, also released in 1968, was similar to the debut album but a little more even-keeled. That wasn't all good news: there weren't any keyboard-dominated instrumentals to rival "Sacrifice of the Moon," Barbara Hudson didn't have any lead vocals (although guest vocalist Carol Lee Britt took some), and Bruce-Douglas' songwriting was still embarrassingly high-minded and pretentious. The mysterious Bruce-Douglas disbanded Ultimate Spinach after the second LP was recorded, leaving Lorber holding the bag, as a third Ultimate Spinach album had already been scheduled for release. An entirely different lineup was assembled for their third and last album, with only Barbara Hudson remaining from the one heard on the first LP. Also including Ted Myers (ex-Lost and Chamaeleon Church) and guitarist Jeff Baxter (later to play with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers), this version of Ultimate Spinach recorded III. The record was an undistinguished jumble of psychedelic, hard rock, and pop styles that sounded like the work of several different bands.International buyers ? please note: Import duties, taxes, and charges aren't included in the item price or postage cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. "Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be, prior to bidding or buying."

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Location: Los Angeles, California

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