Captain Marryat / Earthen Vessel (1974 Glasgow / 1972 Michigan) | Heavy Psych Prog | Vinyl Stream

For today's psychedelic trip this morning I'm spinning two private press rarities back to back - the self-titled Captain Marryat album on Noble Records and Hard Rock / Everlasting Life by Earthen Vessel on NRS Records, original 1972 pressing. 00:00 Intro 04:02 Captain Marryat (1974) starts 44:17 American Blues 'If I Were A Carpenter' 7" 1968 57:57 American Blues 'All I Saw Was You' B-side 7" 1968 54:01 Earthen Vessel (1972) starts 1:24:47 Close Captain Marryat were five musicians from Glasgow who went into a studio to cut a single and came out with an album. The engineer at Thor Records told them there was enough time to make a full LP - they had five songs already in their set and improvised a sixth on the spot to close side two. Dance Of Thor. One take, unrehearsed, named after the Norse god of storms. The band gigged heavily through the Scottish pub and club circuit opening for the Alex Harvey Band and Nazareth. They traveled to London after the album was done and A&M Records and other labels expressed interest. Then members started leaving. They dissolved in 1975. Two original copies sold on eBay in 2008 for around £3,000 each. The Noble Records reissue is limited to 700 copies on purple splatter vinyl. Earthen Vessel were a Christian rock band from Lansing, Michigan who played outdoor rock festivals in the Midwest and Christian music festivals before recording their only album. They went to Sweden for a nine-day tour - got banned on the first night in Stockholm for being too loud - and the vocalist finished the tour solo as a folk singer. By 1971 they had enough material for an album. Leon Morton arranged Monument Studios in Nashville. The music sounds nothing like what you'd expect from a Christian band in 1972. Jefferson Airplane and Cream over Farfisa organ, distorted fuzz guitar, and haunting male and female vocals. The track title Get High on side two says everything about how they were thinking about the relationship between spiritual experience and psychedelic culture. When the album failed commercially the band dissolved. By summer 1972 most members had left. Original copies on NRS Records NRS 2587 are extremely rare. Full albums, both sides of each. Come hang. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ Full vinyl rips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn Shop: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #CaptainMarryat #EarthenVessel #HeavyPsych #VinylStream #VinylPiper #MorningStream #PrivatePress #ScottishPsych #ChristianPsych #RareVinyl #Glasgow #Michigan