Never mind a "Lost Album"....a whole lost band! Formed by once-and-future members of The Belairs, Thorinshield and The Turtles, Everpresent Fullness were HOT on the Sunset Strip scene, and toured/played live with the Turtles, Jefferson Airplane, Sir Douglas Quintet, Love and Buffalo Springfield - the whole jingle-jangle morning sketch as advertisedSigning to White Whale in 1966, the obligatory middle range hit single (Wild About My Lovin") and friendships/collaborations with the hot young songwriters on the lot, Warren Zevon and Paul Williams, boded well for their forthcoming album, produced by the legendary Bones Howe. Indeed there was some great material being put down, but somehow Everpresent Fullness fell out with the owners of White Whale in a spectacular way, their album was cancelled, everything was dropped, the band disintegrated under the strain, and became an all but forgotten footnote. Curioser was the eventual release in 1970 of *an* album, the third to last release on the label actually, pressed in the low hundreds to satisfy a contractual/legal requirement. By this time, very few people indeed cared - an appalling fate for a key Sunset Strip artifact, even in it's mutilated form much sought after in later years, but now we have reconstructed the album as it would have been. A Sunset Strip classic, pitched between The Poor, The Turtles and Buffalo Springfield, with the poppy edge that should have brought a dozen hits and never-before-heard early pop gems from Zevon and Williams. A must have for all fans of west coast pop...beautiful!
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