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Prufrock - Visions (us 1967)

Members:
John Capanna- Vocals, guitar, percussion
Charles Giana - Vocals, bass, guitar, keyboard, percussion
John Hall - Vocals, guitar, drums, sitar, percussion
Tom Lubin - Vocals, percussion
Jim Onetake - Lead Guitar Gun

Album Credits:
Ojai Community String Quartet - Strings
Ojai Not Ready For Sunday Service Singers - Choir
Ensenada Brass - Horns
Two Dot Studio, Ojai, California - Studio recording & mixing
Dean Thompson - Technical assistance and mentoring
Rob Grant, Poons Head Studio, Fremantle - Transfer from the original
tapes
Alex Ringis - Master assembly
Randall Lynton, Liquid Amber Design - Album cover design
Glenn Paris Martin - Illustration
Gold Star Studios, Hollywood - Acetates (in 1967 only 6 were made)
Special thanks to David Gold for permission to use original Gold Star
label art.
Vinyl release: RD-19, RD Records, Switzerland.

Tracks:
01. Captain Jack
02. It Was A Good Day
03. Tired
04. Now The Time Is
05. You Came
06. Not With The Likes Of You
07. Too Young
08. Long Hard Road/ Look Out Of Your Window
09. Mr Wrighter's Writing
10. Whisper Of Love
11. Fredric Milpip's Mother
12. Captain Jack (Reprise)


Editorial Reviews:
Product Description:
Visions was recorded in 1967 at a small studio near LA. It was first released in 07 on vinyl
through RD Records. This is its first release on CD.
It is a rare recording of music that captures the mood and the times of that "Summer of Love".
Early in 67 Tom Lubin had produced an album at Two:Dot Studios on a four track. When the owner
upgraded to an 8-track, he asked Tom to make a recording that could show the studio's new
capability. Tom brought together some friends, and Prufrock was born. By October Prufrock had
recorded an eclectic collection of songs to form the album Visions. There was one major problem
- Prufrock loved to record but two of them didn't want to perform.
In late 67 Tom was hired as an assistant engineer at the legendary Gold Star Studios.
So that Prufrock had something to remember, when no one was around at GS, he made 6 acetates of
Visions. Each of the band members, the guitar player and Two:Dot got one. Several song demos
were also made for a publisher who liked the songs. But Prufrock 's Visions was never released.
That was the end of it, or so it seemed until mid 2006.
It seems one of the publisher demos had found its way to Europe and one song "Too Young" was
released in Austria on a sampler of rare recordings of the 60s. A couple of years later the
acetate was pictured in a rare record collector's book. The Gold Star label had the song title
with Lubin as producer. So, from an acetate label seen in a book to a Google Search, he was
found and contacted by e-mail.
"Dear Sir Are you the Tom Lubin who produced and engineered the band Prufrock in 1967....?"
Tom was floored. It seems the sender was a fan of 60s music, and had a label that released
recordings of that era. He was based in Switzerland and had heard only the one song of Visions.
Over time and situations things disappear, but a few years ago Tom had gone into a studio and
transferred all the tapes he had in a box to digital, and Prufrock's Visions was one of them.
Once RD heard it, they wanted to give it its first release and to be completely authentic, on
vinyl.
Prufrock's Visions stands on its own, not as just an interesting rare artefact. It is an
amazing sounding recording made with basic multi-track equipment in the middle of no-where.
The songs powerfully reflect the raging time in which they lived. The Vietnam war, the draft,
civil rights, assassinations, social unrest, the cold war, the bomb, political protest, free
love, the pill, getting stoned, hippies, the British invasion, Timothy Leary, Haight-Ashbury,
LSD. The baby boomers were coming of age and soon would be in charge. So many of those songs of
40 years ago continue to resonate in the present day.

This is an album worth having. You'll be blown away.
By: Amazon.
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Here is another lost and unreleased at the time Californian psychedelic masterpiece of the
highest caliber from 1967!

Only a few (if even a few) acetate 45 singles where known by this incredible great band from the
Ojai, CA area. The recordings for an album were done in the Two:Dot Studios in 1967. (The same
studios the ARTHUR recordings and e.g. HENDRICKSON ROADHOUSE came from) and the acetates were
pressed in the legendary “Gold Star Studios” the same year. The music is a mixture of superb
garage folk, swinging London style garage pop and heavy fuzz loaded psychedelic to the max
tracks with some incredible great eastern influences!

See the band's homepage www.prufrock67.com.

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After a 40 Year Journey, an Amazing Discovery:
This amazing, ecclectic rock album resurfaced on eBay nearly 40 years after it was first
recorded in a small studio in the middle of an orange grove in rural Ojai, California.
Unreleased since 1969, It had existed only in demo format on a few hand pressed vinyl discs
until one of the songs was pirated and appeared on an unauthorized compilation album.
One of those unauthorized albums was purchased by Raymond Dumont, the founder of RD Records.
Using information from the album label, Dumont traced down Tom Lubin, the original producer of
the Prufrock project. Lubin had emmigrated to Australia where he had made quite a name for
himself as a recording engineer, college instructor, lecturer and author. Dumont was curious as
to whether more Prufrock material existed, and he was delighted to discover that Lubin had
digitized an unblemished mix of all 12 songs on the album, and was able to send the entire batch
to Dumont in Switzerland.
So, after an improbable 40 year journey, RD actually pressed, released and sold several hundred
vinyl versions of Visions to that market of purists which insists that "It ain't final 'til it's
vinyl!".
Now, at last, Visions is available on CD. It remains, to this day, a fresh and remarkable
reflection of the tumultuous time during which it was recorded. Lubin has also released the
follow-up album, Revisions in CD format.
By: J.B. Shannon