Damon - Song Of A Gypsy / Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. (1969/70 Los Angeles) | Loner Psych | Vinyl Stream

For today's psychedelic trip this morning I'm spinning two of the most haunting private press records to come out of Los Angeles - Song Of A Gypsy by Damon and U.F.O. by Jim Sullivan. Both from 1969. Both disappeared without a trace. Both found their audience decades too late. 00:00 Intro 7:24 Song of Gypsy starts 42:00 U.F.O starts 1:11:35 Damon is David Del Conte - a Southern California musician who pressed a few hundred copies of his album on his own Ankh Records label, gave most of them away to friends and family, and spent the 1980s running a bowling alley while collectors were paying thousands of dollars for his record. A chance jam session with George Harrison and Ravi Shankar in Big Sur inspired the Eastern tunings and sitar textures that make this record unlike anything else from the era. The original master tapes disappeared. All reissues have been sourced from original vinyl. Jim Sullivan hung out at a Malibu bar with Harry Dean Stanton and Lee Marvin, playing 12-string to anyone who would listen. Actor Al Dobbs heard him and funded the sessions, recruiting the Wrecking Crew to back him. Sullivan had a cameo in Easy Rider. The album went nowhere. In 1975 he left Los Angeles in his Volkswagen Beetle headed for Nashville. His car was found locked on the side of a New Mexico highway - wallet inside, guitar inside, a box of his own records inside. Jim Sullivan was never seen again. The album was called U.F.O. Two records, two lost men, one morning stream. 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/ #Damon #JimSullivan #LonerPsych #VinylStream #VinylPiper #MorningStream #PrivatePress #PsychedelicRock #RareVinyl #LosAngeles #SongOfAGypsy #UFO