Thursday, December 17, 2009

Glass Harp: United Audio Demo Acetate 1969 (FLAC)

rare? oh yeah!
glassh1
March 1969
United Audio Demo
1 of about 15 original acetates > ? > CD-R (trade) > EAC (WAV, confirmed losslessness) > Audacity (removed some loud digipops at end of tracks, music unchanged) > FLAC (8)

Phil Keaggy - vocals, guitar
John Sferra - drums
Steve Markulin - bass

1. Where Did My World Come From?*
2. She Told Me*
3. High Flight
4. Save Me
5. Groovin' With Sammy
6. Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)
7. You Do Something To Me
8. I've Just Begun
9. What You're Doing (The Beatles)

*First two tracks officially released on United Audio 6002 45 single in 1969. The rest of the tracks were never officially released.
OU: This recording is from an audio demo put onto a handful of acetates in early 1969 by, as they were calling themselves at the time "The Glass Harp." I recently received this in trade. The tracks were originally mislabeled, but through some internet sleuthing, I identified what these were: a true treasure! This album, whose songs never ended up being recorded elsewhere by Glass Harp or Phil Keaggy are veritable psychedelic guitar workouts.
Keep in mind as you listen, that Keaggy turned 18 in March 1969, just to get a sense of the magnitude of his raw talent. Below are a few links that helped quite a bit in figuring out the identity of this recording.

links require copy and paste to browser
rapidshare.com:
http://lix.in/-65957b
or
http://lix.in/-6a295e
http://lix.in/-6bafff
http://lix.in/-6d36a0


megaupload:
http://lix.in/-5f7af7
or
http://lix.in/-6a2954
http://lix.in/-6baff5
http://lix.in/-6d3696


Comments welcome.

6 comments:

vincent the soul chef said...

It's the writeup that sold me... I've only Phil Keaggy's name mentioned once by a couple of guitar heads almost 20 years ago, but of course, they praised his name and prowess. I'm anxious to hear him. As always, thanks. :)

Peace and blessings.

QualityBootZ said...

see also the othet Glass Harp posts and I did post a solo piece a few days ago.
In the early eighties he was considered a top 10 current guitarist by Guitar magazine.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this!

PLEASE, PLEASE More Velvet Underground!

Wedge said...

thanks so much!! between the 2 recent Glass Harp posts & the Yes Seattle 77 recording, im in heaven this week!!

Anonymous said...

hey, this is being stopped by the italian police! i cant get to download the record!! cannot believe this"!!
it says it is p*doporn!
totally nonsense!
anybody else has got the same problem?!

Anonymous said...

hey, this is being stopped by the italian police! i cant get to download the record!! cannot believe this"!!
it says it is p*doporn!
totally nonsense!
anybody else has got the same problem?!