Love Cry Want
Love Cry Want (black)
Avant-jazz/psychedelic rock recorded live at an anti-war rally in Washington D.C., in June 1972. "Richard Nixon has heard Love Cry Want; you probably haven't - we're here to remedy that. The story: In June 1972, Nixon ordered aide J.R. Haldeman to cut short a concert in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park because the president feared that Love Cry Want's roiling sounds would trigger rioting and possibly levitate the White House. It may have been the disgraced leader's most astute decision ever. For Love Cry Want's lone recorded artifact harnesses a scary power that rightfully put the fear in corrupt politicians. The six pupil-dilating tracks here still strike the ear as alien and terrifyingly wild. Love Cry Want consisted of Joe Gallivan (drums, steel guitar, Moog synth, percussion), Nicholas (guitar synthesizer, ring modulator), Jimmy Molneiri (drums, percussion) and Larry Young (Hammond organ). After establishing himself as a leader on the Blue Note label in the 1960s, Young played on Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew,' John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana's Love Surrender Devotion, and the first three Tony Williams Lifetime albums. He emerged from those sessions at an exalted level of inspiration and with a formidable fire in his belly, and these traits helped shape Love Cry Want into a sui generis classic - a tone poem expressed with a flamethrower. Nicholas and Gallivan more than rise to the occasion. Using a self-built guitar synthesizer, Nicholas stuns throughout the disc with brash flashes of Hendrix-ian extravagance. Gallivan displays both inventive exoticness and cyclonic power as he and Molneiri deftly guide the group through its furious paces." -Dave Segal, Jazz Times. RTA version of 500 copies on black vinyl. Comes with an 8-page booklet with rare photos, bios of the artists + drawings and liner notes by legendary artist/author/musician Alicia Bay Laurel.