Ultimate Spinach – Behold & See
Label: | MGM Records – SE-4570, MGM Records – SE4570 |
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Format: | Vinyl, LP, Album |
Country: | US |
Released: | |
Genre: | Rock |
Style: | Psychedelic Rock |
Tracklist
A1 | Gilded Lamp Of The Cosmos | 2:30 | |
A2 | Visions Of Your Reality | 5:49 | |
A3 | Jazz Thing | 8:20 | |
A4 | Mind Flowers | 9:38 | |
B1 | Where You're At | 3:10 | |
B2 | Suite: Genesis Of Beauty (In Four Parts) | 9:56 | |
B3 | Fifth Horseman Of The Apocalypse | 5:50 | |
B4 | Fragmentary March Of Green | 6:51 |
Companies, etc.
- Copyright © – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
- Manufactured By – MGM Records Division
- Published By – Interval Music Co.
- Recorded At – Mayfair Recording Studios
- Produced For – Alan Lorber Productions
- Pressed By – MGM Record Manufacturing Division
- Pressed By – MGM Records Division
Credits
- Art Direction – Acy R. Lehman*
- Artwork [Cover/Liner Art] – David Jenks
- Directed By [Direction] – International Career Consultants, Inc.
- Engineer [Director Of Engineering] – Val Valentin
- Engineer [Recording] – Harry Yarmark
- Management – Amphion Co.
- Producer – Alan Lorber
- Written-By, Composed By, Arranged By – Ian Bruce-Douglas
Notes
First cat# on cover, second on label.
Equipment: Courtesy AMPEG
Manufactured by MGM Records Division; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019
Variant 3: Label is identical, EXCEPT typesetting is offset to the right almost 1/4"...Track A1 time 2:30 extends into gold area
Equipment: Courtesy AMPEG
Manufactured by MGM Records Division; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019
Variant 3: Label is identical, EXCEPT typesetting is offset to the right almost 1/4"...Track A1 time 2:30 extends into gold area
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Side A, runout etched): SE 4570 MGS 1558 1A 12
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, Side A, runout etched): SE 4570 MGS 1558 1A 11
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Side B, runout etched): SE 4570 MGS 1559 1A 11
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, Side B, runout etched): SE 4570 MGS 1559 1A 12
- Matrix / Runout (Both Variants, Sides A & B, runout stamped): [block-shaped 's' stamp]
- Rights Society: BMI
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3, Side A, runout etched (11 & L1 stamped)): SE 4570 MGS 1558 1A 11 L1
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3, Side B, runout etched (13 & L1 stamped)): SE 4570 MGS 1558 1A 13 L1
Other Versions (5 of 26)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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New Submission | Behold & See (LP, Album, Stereo) | MGM Records | MGM-CS 8094 | UK | 1968 | ||
New Submission | Behold And See (LP, Album, Mono) | MGM Records, MGM Records | MGM C 8094, MGM-C 8094 | UK | 1968 | ||
New Submission | Behold And See (LP, Album, Promo, Mono) | MGM Records, MGM Records | E-4570, E4570 | US | 1968 | ||
New Submission | Behold & See (LP, Album) | MGM Records, MGM Records | SE-4570, SE4570 | Canada | 1968 | ||
New Submission | Behold & See (LP, Album, H.V. Waddell Press ) | MGM Records, MGM Records | SE-4570, SE 4570 | US | 1968 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- Obviously the hit from this album is “Mind Flowers” by the wasted Ultimate Spinach, a drug bathed band from Boston who came into being in 1967, at the apex of the psychedelic musical experience. Ultimate Spinach were not at all like the Jefferson Airplane, nor did they have the hard edges of 13th Floor Elevators, designing their sound to flower during the heyday of the Summer of Love, creating a floating dynamic musical soundscape to not so much alter one’s lysergic experience, but to enhance that inner journey, all while keeping pace, or perhaps setting the pace for the floor that was shifting under one’s feet, along with the ceiling that was floating away, leaving listeners lost in the matrixed air they were breathing.
Ian Bruce Douglas was the singer and instigator of Ultimate Spinach, played over ten instruments of the album, claiming, “Ultimate Spinach is mind food,” which to my way of thinking, just about explains everything.
Their first self-titled album is not considered a psychedelic classic, yet it was this, their second outing that would define the band and brought them a wider albeit unhinged listening audience. Behold & See may come across as a muted variant of the band’s debut, nevertheless it continues to push those psychedelic boundaries; with all of the appropriate effects and affects one could hope for. It was a strange time for nearly everything, with See & Behold being the product of arranger Alan Lorber, who wanted to take things to the psychically next level, to physically create a music scene in his home town of Boston. While the Monkees had proved that you could manufacture a band, Alan wanted to manufacture an entire scene, where at the center would sit Ultimate Spinach. The prime bands that were maneuvered into and onto this conceptual cosmic plane were Orpheus (a band who faked/scammed themselves into being more popular than they actually were) and Ultimate Spinach. The results tended to be overly, though sincere psychedelia which borrowed far too heavily from the West Coast scene at the time, where despite the pretentiousness of the approach and the featured ideas, there is still much here for any psychedelic fan to enjoy … even though it’s said that San Francisco bands despised them.
*** The Fun Facts: As to the band’s name, Douglas says, “One day in 1967 I was in my room tripping on some really pure LSD. I started looking at myself in the mirror and my face was doing funny things. I had a bunch of colored markers I used to draw with. I grabbed a green one and started drawing all these psychedelic designs on my face. When I was done, I looked at myself and said ‘Whoa! I am ultimate spinach. Ultimate spinach is me!’”
Review by Jenell Kesler - The Bosston Sound, or Boston Psychedelic Sound, is a scene too guilty ignored by specialized music critics..
- Behold & See simply has to be one of the greatest albums ever recorded (in my humble opinion.) I could not put a count on how many times I've listened to this masterpiece and hear something new in it each time. The complexity of some of the arrangements and how it all musically fits together in a cohesive psychedelic beauty is one of the reasons this album is so strong from start to finish. I love this album and it is one of the most cherished in my collection; and I think anyone who owns it will agree with that.
- This album is the epitome of the sound of an era that will live on as the zenith of psychedelic rock. "Mind Flowers" is a psychedelic masterpiece that should still be receiving copious notoriety to date. Rounding up to 5/5 as 4 seems like an injustice to this brain-melting behemoth of an album...
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