Tripwire
Lost At The Apothecary
A bit of a mysterious entry in the American Sound catalog, as copies are just not around. This album was recorded in the early 1990's by the members of Phoenix Bird, using all authentic 1960's instruments - pressed in a small quantity (283 numbered copies), with terrific jacket art. Includes a copy of the Phoenix Bird single. Here is how it was described: Phoenix Bird were a New Hampshire trio who formed in 1969, and cut these two songs to an acetate in 1970 or shortly thereafter, with the intention of releasing them as a single. That didn't happen until four decades after the fact. Per the liner notes, PB had "hopes of being the next big power trio." Had it been released on schedule, 'F.T.C. (Fuck The Cops)' would have beaten N.W.A. to the punch by a good twenty years; sonically, it sounds like the band was cutting it's teeth on Cream. The B-side is 'Parchment Farm,' a rendition of the old-time prison standard that Blue Cheer turned inside-out for their 1968 opus, 'Vincebus Eruptum.' Like the Tripwire LP, the Phoenix Bird single was released back in the '90s.