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Permanent Damage

GTO'S Permanent Damage (Rare 1969 US 17-track LP produced by Frank Zappa & also featuring [uncredited] Jeff Beck, members of the Faces & the Mothers, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some light edge scuffing & minor shelfwear, nothing more than par for the course on a sleeve of this design, and the vinyl is superb & remains in excellent condition with only a couple of light inaudible surface marks to show for its forty years - a wonderful copy of this quirky album! STS1059)
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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1969 - 55 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Straight
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Product Catalogue No STS1059
Music Genre Progressive, Folk, POP, Gothic, 60s Female, Rap & Hip Hop, Singer/Songwriter
Country Comes from USA Comes from 'USA'
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Tracklisting & More Information

With Frank Zappa's unerring sense of 'History In The Making' and love of social documentary, both in his own work & that of others, it was near inevitable that he should document the phenomenon that were The GTO's.
Miss Pamela & Miss Christine also happened to be little Moon's babysitters, so Frank received most of the stories first hand & decided that they really needed to be preserved for posterity.
He gave The GTO's a timetable for composing a selection of songs to be included on a potential album, but it was still meant to be a free form expression of a never to be repeated time and a place where liberation & naïveté went hand in hand in almost equal measures. This is documented literally by Pamela des Barres in her excellent book 'I'm With The Band', which itself is based on her personal diaries from the period.

The backing musicians / celebrities involved are certainly no lightweights, with various Mothers participating, along with Jeff Beck, Russ Titelman, Ry Cooder, Lowell George, Davy Jones, Rodney Bingenheimer & even a young Rod Stewart.

The GTO's were always a loosely knit conglomerate, originally calling themselves 'The Laurel Canyon Ballet Company', as their primary form of expression was usually dancing at celebrated Los Angeles nightspots in front of their favourite bands. That said, they did actually perform some of the album material at a gig at The Shrine Auditorium which received good reviews, but their very essence was their temporary status, so this was rarely repeated.

As an album, it has its moments, & it is certainly dripping with charm & cute.
As a historical document it is probably as important a statement as any that have been made before or since by anybody that was there at the time.

Thanks, Frank.


Tracklisting:

01. The Eureka Springs Garbage Lady
02. Miss Pamela and Miss Sparky Discuss Stuffed Bras and Some of Their Early Gym Class experiences
03. Who's Jim Sox?
04. Kansas and the BTO's
05. The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes
06. Wouldn't It Be Sad if There Were No Cones?
07. Do Me in Once and I'll Be Sad, Do Me in Twice and I'll Know Better (Circular Circulation)
08. Moche Monster Review
09. TV Lives
10. Rodney
11. I Have a Paintbrush in My Hand to Color a Triangle
12. Miss Christine's First Conversation With the Plaster Casters of Chicago
13. The Original GTO's
14. Ghost Chained to the Past, Present, and Future (Shock Treatment)
15. Love on an Eleven Year Old Level
16. Miss Pamela's First Conversation With the Plaster Casters of Chicago
17. I'm in Love With the Ooo-Ooo Man

LP RECORD  
Recording Artist GTO's
Product Title Permanent Damage
Product Information GTO's Permanent Damage USA vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
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