Artist: The Surprise Package
Title: Free Up
Year Of Release: 1969/2011
Label: Flawed Gems
Genre: Oldies, Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 39:29
Total Size: 276 Mb (scans)
Tracklist:
1. New Way Home (Beck, Lowery, Rogers) - 3:53
2. 100% Vision (Lowery, Rogers) - 7:19
3. Breakaway (M. Rogers) - 3:34
4. Supporting Cast (M. Rogers) - 2:59
5. Social Disease (Beck, Lowery) - 2:35
6. Free Up (M. Rogers) - 15:51
Bonus Tracks:
7. MacArthur Park (A-Side 1969) (J. Webb) - 3:17
Greg Beck - Guitar, Vocals
Fred Zeufeldt - Drums, Vocals
Mike Rogers - Organ, Piano, Bass, Vocals
Rob Lowery - Lead Vocals
The Surprise Package were a Seattle, Washington group consisting of Fred Zeufeldt (drums, backing vocals), Michael Rohers (piano, organ, bass, backing vocals), Greg Beck (guitar, backing vocals), Rob Lowery (lead vocals).
Their only album was released in early 1969 on tiny LHI label owned by the famous arttist/producer Lee Hazelwood. The Record mostly contained a trippy and quite intense music with lots of Hammond organ pasages, loud and fuzzed-out guitar parts and solid drumming. It can be easily described as a stylistic combination of Vanilla Fudge, The Doors and especially Iron Butterfly.
It worth noting that the title track lasted nearly 16 minutes and its structure wasvery similar to In A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Excellent freaky improvisations in some parts.Very Essential for acid heads. Unfortunately, the album (and also single with cover of MacArthur Park) went almost completely unnoticed. Soon after the band changed its name to American Eagle and 1970 released an eponymous LP for Decca records.
