FACE AND PLACE VOL. 7 [AKA: JET PROPELLED PHOTOGRAPHS, AKA: AT THE BEGINNING]

These tracks have been collected and repackaged a billion times under several different titles by many different companies...several of them of dubious legality (my copy is called "Jet Propelled Photograph" but has a different cover and running order to the same-titled album mentioned here). These are the Georgio Gromelsky- produced sides that came before their first album. If you love the more pop-psych elements of their first two albums, you might enjoy this. Daevid Allen's presence on an album usually signifies goofus humor and experimentation, but here things are played relatively straight, as benfits a young inexperienced band recording their first sides. Not great then, but an interesting glimpse into their early work. It makes one wonder how the Softs might have ended up had Daevid been allowed to stay...