Terrapin Gun - Relax Your Mind | LP (col. Lim.)

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Neo-Psych

Limited to
 - 50 Transparent Red
 - 50 Coke Bottle Green

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https://infinitespinrecords.bandcamp.com/releases

On a dark and stormy night in 1998, in one of the links of Boston's emerald necklace, two brothers searched for a key. The heavy steel door of the old auto body repair shop was helped open by a strong northeastern wind. Inside, they lit their cigarettes and coaxed the old propane heater on, while the opening hums of Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” played on the stereo. In their wet, salt-stained boots, the brothers took a few mouthfuls of whiskey to help loosen up their hands enough to form a few chords on their guitars. As the room filled up with smoke, they talked Spacemen 3, Richard Farina, those early Parliament records, pearl-button shirts, a borrowed theremin. Sterling loaded a ½ inch reel on the machine while Scott duct-taped down the D key on the old Hammond. With their guitars and amps, and whatever else was laying around, Terrapin Gun made the music they wanted to hear.


RIYL: Spacemen 3, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Byrds (Gram Parsons), Suicide, Arthur Lee, Velvet Underground, The Fugs