Description
Offered for sale is an original U.S. pressing of A Gathering of Promises by Bubble Puppy, with the cover still in the original shrink wrap.
About this copy: This copy of A Gathering of Promises is a 1969 U.S. pressing on the International Artists label.
The cover is M- and is still in the original shrink wrap. A hype sticker on the wrap that says “This album contains HOT SMOKE” and then lists all of the song titles.
The disc is M- with one or two faint scuffs from the original paper inner sleeve. There are no spindle marks on the labels. Clean disc!
This LP comes from our own collection. We bought it new decades ago and have played it just a few times. It’s a beauty.
Background: Released in 1969, A Gathering of Promises was the only album by Texas-based Bubble Puppy, though they later released a second album under the name of Demian.
The album did not chart.
Allmusic.com gave A Gathering of Promises a 4 star review:
Recording for International Artists Records, the crazed Texas label that brought the world such acid-damaged visionaries as the 13th Floor Elevators, the Red Krayola, Lost & Found, and Electric Rubayyat, the Bubble Puppy seemed by comparison to be a beacon of semisanity — a rather typical psychedelic band of the period who seemed more interested in having a good time and cranking up the amps than in reimagining the size and shape of the inner cosmos. But that’s not to say they weren’t a good psychedelic band — the band’s best known tune, “Hot Smoke and Sassafras,” was a charging guitar-heavy rocker that deservedly became a hit single, and its flip side, “Loney,” was nearly as good. …It’s not exactly a work of life-changing genius, but A Gathering of Promises is still a noticeably stronger and better crafted album than most bands of their time and place were turning out, and if it had enjoyed wider distribution (and another song or two as good as the single) who knows where they could have ended up.
You can listen to “Lonely” here:
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| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | International Artists |
| Catalog Number: |
IALP-10 |
| Year of Release: | 1969 |
| Format: | Stereo |
| Share: |       |
