FAMILY TIMES BAND / FAMILY TIMES BAND / CD

1976年に米国、ヴァージニア州でリリースされた兄弟2人と姉妹2人による4人組、ファミリー・タイムス・バンドのLPが世界初CD化。オリジナル盤LPは自主制作盤で500枚のみの限定プレスなんていうのも常套句になってきましたが、このジャケット、どこかで見たことがありませんか?そう、サイケファンにはおなじみのASYLUM「FIRST&LAST」と一緒の『夕焼けジャケ』ですね。こちらはおそらくプレス工場が用意しているお手軽ジャケと思われるもので、当時の自主盤によくある出来事。ローナー系のACID FOLK SSW好き~WEST COASTサイケ、VELVET UNDERGROUNDの3RDあたりの質感にも近いものが。ちょっとマイナーな例えですが、SEVENTH DAWNとART OF LOVIN'を良いとこ取りしたような・・・そんな作品です。※バンドの詳細を記載した4pのブックレット、リマスターはABBEY ROADスタジオにて。

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Family Times Band consisted of two brothers and two sisters who hailed from Newport News, Virginia and released this their sole album in 1976 as a privately pressed edition of 500. Presented here for the first time on CD.

This album runs the gamut from killer hypnotic acid folk psych "Sitting By The Ocean" to West Coast psychy folk rock "She's Gone", 3rd Velvets/Hackamore Brick sounds "All I Need", to fuzzed out rockers "Cause You Know". Overall it comes across as being very much a mixture of the Seventh Dawn "Sunrise" LP and the Art Of Lovin'. And despite the 1976 release date, this album is much more in keeping with 1969-70 sensibilities. Lead vocalist Don Leitzke sounds very much like Mandrake Memorial's Michael Kac.

1.Sitting By The Ocean
2.She's Gone
3.My Love
4.You've Got To Carry On
5.The Morning's Just Begun
6.Cause You Know
7.That Was All Just A Game
8.Everybody Get Happy
9.All I Need
10.What Should We Do

As with all Erebus Records titles this was remastered at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.