Fifty Foot Hose – Cauldron

Hi, does anyone have the inner lyrics sheet that goes with this release? If you have a spare one please get in touch and I'll buy it. Thanks

Great sounding first press…the bass is great und it surprised me a lot that a 60ies record has so much bass information on it. Maybe this record is in a technical view not perfectly mastered, but the sound is so authentic, direct, detailed and heavy that i was totally flashed as i heard it recently. If you have a good equipment this is the pressing to get!

If anyone has a spare original custom lyric inner sleeve to sell please contact me, thanks

Having compared an original to the 2019 Modern Harmonic reissue I have to say Im surprised at how similar they can be, yet not.
The original is louder and it does generally have a slightly lower EQ lean. Red The Sign Post lacks bass almost completely on Kevins cut for example, but while the original has that its got less clarity in drums and vocals.
On Rose it becomes difficult to tell them apart however so its hard to make a clear choice.
But I would probably nod towards the original as song transitions seem less jarring overall. Perhaps the reissue uses mulitple sources of varying quality.

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Wheeze and whirl, clank and bang with oodles of brain popping doodles spreading itself over some pretty nifty west coast acid folk rocking, psyched hippies and electrical boffins spraying outta-space vibes from their mind liquefying paisley attachments.
Cork Marcheschi was/is the head honcho of the combo and back in the early 60s he was playing the rock 'n' roll / R&B noise in North Beach, San Francisco plus at the same time discovering older hipsters like Edgar Varese and began setting about joining together these seemingly different strands of music whilst also digging poetic ideas that had first been put forth by the Dadaist movement two generations and a continent away.
After playing gigs at the Fillmore Auditorium during the nascent flower power days the 50 Footers managed to sign with Mercury Records subsidiary Limelight and recorded Cauldron, only to have it released just before years end of 1967 enabling the record to promptly disappear from view and journey into the 'netherworld of strange wax' where it remained for 30 years until it was released again in the mid nineties.
The easiest way for the uninitiated to get a handle on this first LP is to imagine a heavier more tripped out version of the 'United States of America' album, plenty of electrification FX over beaty acid rock blare with female vocals wailing the songs, still sounding fresh today thanks to the nouveaux hippy 'noise/folk/weird' practitioners making this sort of bleat more acceptable / accessable in the post modern hyper real age of todays listening habits.

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The title track on this is one of the most genuinely disturbing pieces of music I have ever heard. Absolutely wonderful.