Chrome (8) – The Visitation
Label: | Siren Records (7) – DE -1000 |
|---|---|
Format: | Vinyl, LP, Album |
Country: | US |
Released: | |
Genre: | Rock |
Style: | Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Industrial |
Tracklist
| A1 | How Many Years Too Soon | 5:20 | |
| A2 | Raider | 3:55 | |
| A3 | Return To Zanzibar | 3:51 | |
| A4 | Caroline | 3:53 | |
| B1 | Riding You | 4:58 | |
| B2 | Kinky Lover | 3:31 | |
| B3 | Sun Control | 3:14 | |
| B4 | My Time To Live | 4:18 | |
| B5 | Memory Cords Over The Bay | 5:27 |
Companies, etc.
- Mixed At – Mystic Sound Studio
- Mixed At – Super Sound Studios, Monterey, CA
- Recorded At – Alamar Studios
- Mastered At – Kendun Recorders
Credits
- Arranged By, Songwriter [All Songs Written By] – Edge*, Lambdin*, Lowe*
- Backing Vocals [Background Vocals], Bass, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Synthesizer – Mike Low*
- Backing Vocals [Background Vocals], Bass, Lead Guitar [Lead Guitars], Mandolin, Strings [String Ensemble], Synthesizer, Violin [Electric Violin] – John Lambdin
- Backing Vocals [Background Vocals], Cover [Design By], Drums, Effects [Tape Effects], Producer [Produced By], Synthesizer [Synthesizers], Percussion – Damon Edge
- Bass, Keyboards, Violin [Acoustic And Electric Violin] – Gary Spain
- Photography By – Amy James
Notes
Side Notes: This first spray-painted cover releases included 3 inserts, all of which are quite rare.
The initial pressing had a plain looking white label with black text. Perhaps accidentally omitted from the label was "Siren Records", which was subsequently added with a rubber stamp on many copies. The second pressing is also a white label, but 'produced by damon edge' is added to the credits. Later pressings used an entirely re-designed label featuring silver hand-written text on a black background, typical of the labels used on the next several albums. Most, if not all of these black-labeled records were released with the picture sleeve. All three of these "original" releases of The Visitation were from the same mould (matrix# Kendun DE-1000).
The initial pressing had a plain looking white label with black text. Perhaps accidentally omitted from the label was "Siren Records", which was subsequently added with a rubber stamp on many copies. The second pressing is also a white label, but 'produced by damon edge' is added to the credits. Later pressings used an entirely re-designed label featuring silver hand-written text on a black background, typical of the labels used on the next several albums. Most, if not all of these black-labeled records were released with the picture sleeve. All three of these "original" releases of The Visitation were from the same mould (matrix# Kendun DE-1000).
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Groove Etching Side A): SIDE I DE-1000-A KENDUN A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Groove Etching Side B): SIDE 2 KENDUN A DE-1000-B
Other Versions (5 of 10)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Recently Edited | The Visitation (LP, Album, Repress, Stereo) | Siren Records (7) | DE-1000 | US | 1976 | ||
Recently Edited | The Visitation (LP, Album, Repress, Black Labels) | Siren Records (7) | DE1000 | US | 1976 | ||
| Visitors (LP, Album, Test Pressing) | Siren Records (7) | DE -1000 | US | 1976 | |||
Recently Edited | The Visitation (LP, Album, Reissue, Clear) | Dossier, Dossier | ST 9, DLP -9- | Germany | 1989 | ||
Recently Edited | The Visitation (LP, Album, Reissue) | Dossier, Dossier | ST 9, DLP -9- | Germany | 1989 |
Recommendations
Reviews
25 copies with spray-painted cover and inserts, signed by Damon Edge.- Edited 14 years agoChrome's 1st album (sans Helios Creed) is a very good, but perhaps not great, album of twisted rock with nods to west coast psychedelia, 60s garage, the embryonic punk of the day and pervy strip club grind n' roll. It's more of a sign of things to come as they were still to be joined by the guitarist Helios Creed who served up such crucial ur-metal riffs on Alien Soundtracks and Half Machine Lip Moves. If you like those two albums then its worth hearing The Visitation ... you get to hear the evolution of the Chrome science fiction sound. At the time (mid/late 70s) this album sounded a bit plain and 2D compared with the two masterpieces... but history has treated it kindly and I now view it as a wonderfully wayward sonic parent of two post-punk behemoths.
I don't think this album has ever been issued on CD.... someone should do that without delay.
Release
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