Description
Offered for sale is a U.S. copy of …Calm Before, the only album by The Rising Storm.
About this copy: This copy of …Calm Before is a 1992 U.S. pressing on the Stanton Park Records label of an album that was originally released in 1967.
The cover is M-. The disc is M- and looks unplayed. Clean disc!
A nice copy of a scarce reissue LP. Good album, too!
Background: Released in 1967, Calm Before was a privately pressed LP released in small quantities by the band, a group of students at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts.
The album has long been sought out by collectors of rare garage bands, and in 1992, the album was officially reissued.
Allmusic.com gave …Calm Before a 4 star review:
The Rising Storm were six guys attending Phillips Academy, a prep school in Andover, MA, between 1964 and 1967. Like lots of high school kids of the era, they figured playing in a rock & roll band would be good fun (and help them meet girls), so they started rocking school dances and mixers, and near the end of their run (which coincided with graduation), they decided to document their musical career by making an album. The resulting LP, Calm Before…, became a sacred text among New England garage rock collectors years later, and it’s not hard to see why. The Rising Storm often sound like a bunch of high school kids on this album (especially lead singer Tony Thompson, whose vocal range sometimes suggests puberty was still taking hold), but they’re also clearly stronger than the average teen garage band of the era. …Not many teen groups who financed and pressed their own records had the imagination or the chops of the Rising Storm, and if the results are a few notches down from amazing, in a genre where the best bands rarely cranked out more than four or five good tracks, the Rising Storm made an LP with a dozen worthwhile songs, and it certainly deserves its cult following.
| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Stanton Park |
| Catalog Number: |
SRE-001 |
| Year of Release: | 1992 |
| Format: | Stereo |
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