Condello - Phase 1

180-gram vinyl, pressed at RTI

Mastered from the original analogue tapes

Faithful reproduction of the original artwork

A lost treasure for lovers of great '60s psychedelia

Mike Condello did it all in four decades in the music business: serving as music director for two local Phoenix TV shows (Teen Beat and The Wallace & Ladmo Show), leading his own bands like Hub Cap and the Wheels, parodying the Beatles with Commodore Condello's Salt River Navy Band, and even playing with luminaries such as Keith Moon, the Tubes, and Jackson Browne.

In 1968, he also led his own band — which released the psychedelic masterwork Phase 1 on Scepter Records. Featuring a young Bill Spooner (pre-Tubes) on guitar, the album flows and trickles through your mind with more saturation than Lucy and her diamonds in the sky — picking up a few nuggets, boulders, and pebbles in the emergent violet haze. The phases of this pricey rarity — mastered from the original analog reels and pressed on lush 180 gram vinyl by RTI — are guaranteed to put your mind into a psychedelized headswirl trip that you'll want to take again and again.

 

Side 1:

Crystal Clear

Oh No

Guess I Better Go

Charming Sitter

All You Need

Keep It Inside

Side 2:

Dr. Tarr Professor Feather

The Other Side Of You

See What Tomorrow Brings

He’ll Keep Waiting

It Don’t Matter

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