Mike Condello did it all in four decades in the music business: serve as music director for two local Phoenix TV shows (Teen Beat and The Wallace & Ladmo Show), lead his own bands like Hub Cap and the Wheels, parody the Beatles with Commodore Condello’s Salt River Navy Band, and even play with luminaries like Keith Moon, the Tubes, and Jackson Browne. In 1968, he also led his own band — which released the psychedelic masterwork Phase 1 on Scepter Records. Featuring a young Bill Spooner (pre-Tubes) on guitar, the album flows and trickles through your mind with more saturation than Lucy and her diamonds in the sky — picking up a few nuggets, boulders, and pebbles in the emergent violet haze. The phases of this pricey rarity — mastered from the original analog reels and pressed on lush 180 gram vinyl by RTI — are guaranteed to put your mind into a psychedelized headswirl trip that you’ll want to take again and again. TRACK LISTING: CRYSTAL CLEAR • OH NO • GUESS I BETTER GO • CHARMING SITTER • ALL YOU NEED • KEEP IT INSIDE • DR. TARR PROFESSOR FETHER • THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU • SEE WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS • HE’LL KEEP WAITING • IT DON’T MATTER• RTI 180 gram audiophile pressing• From the original master tapes• Faithful reproduction of the original artwork
