My local record store, Noble Records, has exclusives vinyl releases for his store and I have been buying them all…well almost as I started late and I am missing the first three he issued. I have about 13 or 14 others though. And this is one of my favorites. It is an album by a band called Poobah and this is their debut release called “Let Me In”. But this is a special collectors edition as it is a 2 LP set with the original album on one LP and a ton of bonus tracks on the other LP. And it is all glorious. If you like early 70’s rock with a lot of distortion, wah wah pedals and some incredible drumming you are in for a treat. Any Sabbath fan, this would be right up your alley as well.
The original album was released in 1972 with founding members, Jim Gustafson on guitar and vocals, Phil Jones on bass and vocals, and Glenn Wiseman on drums and what a monster he is. The original album only has 6 tracks and they are impressive. The band was named after some girl from Jim’s high school that everyone feared. Poobah is weird nickname for a girl. The name makes me think of The Flintstones’ Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. The cover art of the album was done by artist Jack Joyce and done in the style of American Underground Comix of the 1960’s. Jack had understood that Jim was a huge fan of comics so it inspired him to do this character throwing up in a toilet. Man, that is inspiration.
Then in 2010, the band signed a new deal with Ripple Records and the album was remixed and then on top of that they threw on 13 bonus tracks they had laying around that were recorded back in 1973. The band has seen a resurgence in popularity of the years with songs being in TV shows, critics loving them and seeing re-issues of the 2010 remixed album like this one from Noble Records. It is albums like this, I keep buying Dillon’s exclusives for his store because sometimes they are pure gold.
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