5 Singles, 4 LPs - Billy Gibbons Before ZZ Top, Nick Drake First Press & Jason Roxas

Part two of the Northwest trip is coming next week. In the meantime, here are nine records that turned up while I was waiting: five Northwest singles and four LPs. The big one is The Moving Sidewalks, Flash, the 1968 Tantara original with Billy Gibbons on it four years before ZZ Top. It is one of the most counterfeited psych LPs out there, and I have had it on my want list ad in Record Collector News, page four, for the better part of a year. A guy named Barry saw the ad, reached out, and we made a deal. That is the entire reason to run an ad. The singles are all Northwest and mostly one label: Etiquette, which the Wailers built themselves after nobody would sign them. There is also a Sonics single that does not sound like the Sonics, for a reason that has more to do with the Vietnam War than with the band. The four LPs have nothing to do with each other. A first pressing Nick Drake I have wanted for years and never even owned a reissue of, a Peruvian cumbia record from Cusco, which is where my wife is from, that six people on Discogs own, and a 2007 noise record I picked up because Jason Roxas plays bass on it. I did not like that one and I say so. Timestamp 00:00 Intro 00:31 The Wailers - Partytime U.S.A. / Seattle 01:58 The Wailers - Frenzy / Tall Cool One 03:37 The Rooks - Believe In You / I'll Be The One 04:56 The Sonics - Love-Itis / You're In Love 05:30 Rob Lind, the sax player who flew fighters in Vietnam 06:54 Emergency Exit - Maybe Too Late / Why Girl 07:17 Luther Rabb, who went on to the band War 08:39 Psychedelic Horseshit, and Jason Roxas on bass 10:28 Los Cóndores Del Cusco - Vacilando 11:59 Nick Drake - Bryter Layter 13:32 The Moving Sidewalks - Flash 15:51 The ad in Record Collector News 🎧 Vinyl Finds Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9oSXuMGglp1N8SlbZUEtCJ7 🎧 Full Vinyl Rips Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ I sell my doubles and extras here: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #MovingSidewalks #BillyGibbons #NickDrake #NorthwestRock #VinylFinds