second Hand – Reality Label: Trading Places // Cat No: TDP54071 // Format: VINYL LP

second Hand – Reality

Label: Trading Places // Cat No: TDP54071 // Format: VINYL LP // Barcode: 5060672880718 //


Obscure prog rockers Second Hand began as the Next Collection, formed at a south London secondary school; engineer/manager Vic Keary scored them a contract with Polydor as the Moving Finger, but their legendary debut LP was credited to Second Hand, due to a rival Moving Finger. Channelling psych and spacey acid hues, there is blues-rock underpinning Bob Gibbons’ guitar and keyboardist Ken Elliott helps aim the sound towards deep space; this edition features RARE TRACKS ‘JAMES IN THE BASEMENT’ and ‘I AM NEARLY THERE’ from a 1965 Next Collection single (backing Denis Couldry), already showing their freak-psych capabilities. An essential listen for all true prog connoisseurs!



Tracklist

1 A Fairy Tale

2 Rhubarb!

3 Denis James The Clown

4 Steam Tugs

5 Good Old '59 (We Are Slowly Gettin' Older)

6 The World Will End Yesterday

7 Denis James (Ode To D.J.)

8 Mainliner

9 Reality

10 The Bath Song

Bonus Tracks

11 James In The Basement

12 I Am Nearly There