GROUP 87 LP A CAREER IN DADA PROCESSING 1984 CAPITOL ST-12334 1ST PRESS

Description: VG+/NM FIRST PRESSING(cover/vinyl) ALUMNI OF: ZAPPA, MISSING PERSONS, BOZ SCAGGS, SONS OF CHAMPLIN, TAJ MAJAL, VAN MORRISON, RUBIZA PATROL, LA EXPRESS, JEAN LUC-PONTY, BILLY COBHAM Recorded in England Recorded at Strawberry Recording Studios, South Dorking, Surrey – November 1983 through January 1984. Mastered at A&M Studios, Hollywood. Printed in U.S.A.Barcode (Text): 0 7777-12334-1Matrix / Runout (Label A side): ST-1-12334Matrix / Runout (Label B side): ST-2-12334Matrix / Runout (Etched A side): ST-1-12334-Z1 #1 0Matrix / Runout (Etched B side): ST-2-12334-Z1 #2 0Rights Society: ASCAP GROUP 87 were formed as a trio of highly-successful session and solo artists in the early eighties. While they existed for only a few years, they left behind two highly-acclaimed instrumental albums that are considered landmarks by many new-age, jazz, and progressive rock artists even today. The band consisted of multi-instrumentalists Mark Isham and Peter Maunu, as well as bassist Patrick O'Hearn. Isham began his musical career early as a sort of child prodigy in a number of San Francisco area bands including the psychedelically-influenced SONS OF CHAMPLIN, founded by future CHICAGO keyboardist/guitarist Bill Champlain, before moving on to the jazz quartet RUBIZA PATROL. He also performed and recorded with blues legend TAJ MAHAL, as well as with VAN MORRISON and BOZ SCAGGS, among others. Maunu performed as a classical violinist and gained the rating of concert master while still in his teens, earning him a scholarship to study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He recorded with JEAN-LUC PONTY, BILLY COBHAM, and AIRTO among others, and was a founding member of the L.A. EXPRESS. O'Hearn began his career as a touring member of FRANK ZAPPA's band while barely out of his teens, before basically being fired when he turned his energy and attention to the GROUP 87 project at the close of the seventies. The three met and became friends while in their teens in California, performing and recording demo tracks together in between their various other projects. Former BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS drummer Bobby Columby played a part in their signing by Columbia Records in 1979, which led to their debut release. While former Zappa drummer and future founder of MISSING PERSONS Terry Bozzio declined an invitation to join the band, he did contribute drum tracks for their first album. The band drifted apart soon after their debut release, a victim of a depressed music market, fast-changing public tastes, and too much success by the individual members in their respective solo and project efforts. Columby left Columbia about the same time, but resurfaced three years later with EMI/Capitol and signed Isham to reform the group for their final release, 'A Career in Dada Processing' in 1984. The band's sound was a highly-polished blend of jazzy rock and techno with sometimes intense guitar and drum arrangements, while overall having the feel of early new-age music. Their compositions were all carefully arranged instrumentals with layers of keyboards and synthesizers and accented by Isham's trumpet (and mandolin with the second album). There is virtually no improvisation in their music, suggesting them to be somewhat closer to a progressive electronic sound than to more traditional jazz/fusion. Guest drummers appeared on both albums (Terry Bozzio on the first, and MIKE AND THE MECHANICS drummer Peter Van-Hooke, long-time L.A. area session musician Michael Barsimanto, and former WIRE TRAIN drummer Brian MacLeod on the second). Peter Wolf also appeared on the first release. All the members of GROUP 87 have enjoyed great critical and commercial success in their careers following the band's demise. Isham has released a number of new-age jazz recordings, including the famed 'Vapor Drawings' in 1983 and a Grammy award-winning self-titled album in 1990. He has also produced dozens of film and television soundtracks and theme songs. Maunu released a well-received new-age solo album entitled 'Warm Sound in a Gray Field' in 1990 after several years as a featured performance in the Arsenio Hall Show band, and has appeared in or produced a number of movie soundtracks of his own. And following a stint in Bozzio's new-wave eighties MTV-darling band MISSING PERSONS, O'Hearn embarked on a lengthy and still-going career as a new-age solo artist. will combine shipping if paid at same timecontact for invoice before paying for mulitiple itemsno combined shipments held longer than one week some items may require insurance and signature upon delivery this is recomended if you are not available when mail is deliveredthis may result in increased shipping costs in some cases discount is for media rate within the US only one dollar per lp after the initial shipping charged on first auctiondiscounts apply to only one shipment at a time some auctions will not qualify for combined shippingthey will be marked as such

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