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Lost & Found - Lost & Found - Everybody's Here (1967)

Track listing:
  1. Forever Lasting Plastic Words 2:11
  2. Everybody's Here 3:02
  3. There Would Be No Doubt 2:08
  4. Don't Fall Down 3:15
  5. Zig Zag Blues 6:02
  6. Let Me Be 2:46
  7. I Realize 2:31
  8. 2 Stroke Blues 3:09
  9. I'm So Hip To Pain 2:37
  10. Living Eyes 7:37

Notes

Originally known as The Misfits, this band came together in Houston in 1965. They changed their name to Lost And Found just prior to commencing a six month residency at Houston's Living Eye club. They became friendly with Roky Erickson, who introduced them to Lelan Rogers of International Artists, who signed them for an album. Originally released in 1968 on International Artists, the Houston based Lost And Found were able to land a deal with the label thanks to their friendship with Roky Erickson (to whom they pay homage on the album with a cover of the 13th Floor Elevators 'Don't Fall Down'). This digitally remastered reissue of their debut album, released just prior to their 30 day tour with the Music Machine features great fuzz guitars and a healthy dose of psychedelic weirdness.The result was further evidence of Roky's influence. They covered Don't Fall Down from The Elevators' first LP and imitated their jug sound on Let Me Be. The album also included a couple of instrumentals of note; Zig Zag Blues dedicated to the founder of Zig Zag Magazine and Living Eye dedicated to Houston's Living Eye Teen Club. Their first 45 was taken from the album but the second, a non-LP release, was much better. Both sides featured good fuzz guitar and the flip was very strange. This second 45 was intended to form part of a second LP which never emerged because the band disintegrated after a 30 day Texas tour with The Music Machine. Two tracks also cut for the intended LP: Girl With A One Track Mind and 25 M. P. H. were subsequently included on a Texas Archive Flashback LP. The latter, a bedroom demo, was also included on Epitaph For A Legend (Dble LP), along with count-ins where the solo was supposed to go. You'll find both sides of their second 45 on International Artists Singles Collection (LP) and the Austin Landing (LP) compilation. Their album, which was also available in 1979 as part of a boxed set of the first 12 International Artists LPs, is worth getting now that it's been reissued. There Would Be No Doubt, one of its best tracks, also appeared on Radarscope's 1978 promotional EP.