Rain - Tomorrow Never Comes: The NYC Sessions 1967-1968 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 191 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 125 MB
53:46 | Psychedelic Pop | Label: Grapefruit
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 191 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 125 MB
53:46 | Psychedelic Pop | Label: Grapefruit
When post-Undertakers, Brian Epstein-managed UK/US group Lomax Alliance split in mid-1967, Jackie Lomax signed as a solo act with the nascent Apple while his three former colleagues returned to New York. After a US- only single (recorded with Lomax still involved) was issued in the name One, the trio renamed themselves Rain after their favourite Beatles B-side. With the assistance of Young Rascals engineer (and former Undertakers guitarist) Chris Huston, they cut an acetate-only album of original material that combined Beatles-indebted song construction and harmonies with an early Buffalo Springfield/Byrds-style West Coast feel. Despite playing in and around Los Angeles and San Francisco at such venues as the Whisky a Go-Go and the Fillmore, they were unable to place the LP, and split after a brief spell as The Gypsy Wizards Band. Now gaining its first-ever issue, 'Tomorrow Never Comes: The NYC Sessions 1967-1968' features a selection of superb original songs, three of which were reworked from the aborted Lomax Alliance LP, plus six previously unissued bonus tracks cut a few months later as The Gypsy Wizards Band.