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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Copperhead
First
Unreleased LP [no label, 1CD]
November
1970, soundboard from John Cipollina's master cassette
At one time, Copperhead's
first unreleased LP must have been the holy grail among the group's fans.
Copperhead was formed in 1970 by guitarist John Cipollina after he left
Quicksilver Messenger Service. The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1979) might
have considered Quicksilver as "probably the most overrated of the original
batch of San Francisco groups" but this late '60s psychedelic rock group
also performed "among the best instrumental work any San Francisco band
did," and the guitarist who stood out was Cipollina.
This is what 38f,
who posted the lossless tracks on the internet, said: "Yep, this is one
of the rarest John's cassette. Copperhead's story is quite long... in
few words, the first Copperhead attempt is this. John tried to shop it
to different record companies but with no luck. Two years later his father,
Gino, paid for a demo recording that finally was sold to CBS (first LP).
A year later, the second LP was ready but Columbia stopped the project
cause the first one did not sell. Columbia still has the masters of that
second LP. Mario (John's brother) told me he tried to buy the album from
them in order to release it, but had no reply from Columbia executives."
38f also noted that
this was how John's notes originally was recorded on his reel:
John Cipollina -
lead guitar, Hawaian steel guitar, steel guitar.
Mark
Unobsky - guitars and vocals
Jim Murray
- guitars, tablas and harmonica
Jim McPherson
- piano and vocals
David Weber
- drums
Cyrus - bass
1. Untitled
2.
I Just Gonna Move You
3. Drunken
Irish Setter (first ever known version)
4. Untitled
#2 (tape's speed is not stable on the original recording)
5. Highway
No. 9 (acoustic version)
6. Mama (title
of the first incarnation of this song)
7. Chameleon
(Unobsky and McPherson on vocals)
Meanwhile, amellowsoul
added the following "revision":
"While correcting
JC's own writing is a wrong thing to do, and I don't suggest folks change
it. But, perhaps, you will know the following numbers by the names:
"Untitled #1 = Rocket
Ship
(While
this song isn't offically on any album, it was done live on a few Copperhead
shows, its title probably came from a fan than a band member)
"I Just Gonna Move
You = Putting It To You
(Again,
it's likely also that "P.I.T.Y." is a title made up by a fan, or perhaps
it was later retitled by a band member)
"Untitled #2 = Motel
Party Baby
(A
very, VERY early version of this Cipollina classic! Done by several of
bands he was in, probably best known by Dinosaurs. Pity the speed issues,
as this is an amazing "find"!)
"Mama = Bigelow 6-9000
(Retitled
later by the band. A total knockout hearing this early version!)"
38f concluded with
the following observations: "Sometimes, the tape speed gets funny, with
some variations. Copperhead's first LP was from 1973, so this was John's
first attempt to record an album as Copperhead. The sound quality is OK,
not the best, I guess he recorded this with a small tape recorder in his
house."
Despite some speed
fluctuations, overall the sound is very good.
John Cipollina passed
away from a lifelong respiratory ailment on May 29, 1989. He was 46.
A word of thanks
to 38f for the effort and to laryddave for the artwork.
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Note from Live! Music Review editor Bill Glahn (March 2010):
Nice to see your posting of Copperhead's unreleased 2nd album on the BigO "restart." A couple comments: The reason the album was unreleased is much more complex than simply "because the first one didn't sell."
Clive Davis was responsible for signing Copperhead to Columbia for a reported $1.5 million 5-year deal - a huge sum for the times. Around the time of the first album release, the Feds were investigating Columbia's A&R department for using drugs as payola and Columbia was investigating Davis for using company funds for private use. Although Davis was not implicated personally in the drug scandal, Columbia did conclude that he used $87,000 for personal use and Davis was fired.
Often in the music business, senior execs or A&R people are awarded points (percentage of gross sales) for acts that they sign. When the exec leaves the company for any reason, there is little incentive for their replacement to push for promotion of the act since the replacement has no vested financial interest (they'd rather push acts of their own signing).
That - plus the fact that Columbia had obligations to fulfill the contract based on sales figures - led the company to effectively "kill" the 1st album. There were no trade ads or radio promotion for the 1st album (NADA!) and only 60,000 copies were pressed. No second pressing. The end result was that Columbia was off the hook for what was seen as an excessively expensive contract and promotion department finances were cleared to promote acts which the new regime had a vested interest.
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Click on
the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo
MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, this recording
has never been officially released.
Click
on the link to order Copperhead
albums.
For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com
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