The Creation-Lay The Ghost (1993)


 

Artist: The Creation

Title: Lay The Ghost

Label: Cohesion

Format: CD

Cat:  COCRD 1

Year of Release: 1993

Country and Year of Edition: UK 1993

Sell Price: $7.99 10/15/22 VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold:8/28/22 VG+/VG $4.84

Low:$4.84

Median: $6.79

Average: $7.91

High: $14.54 M/M

Current low price: $5.73

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 9

Have/Want: 27/10

Where Sold:   Cincinnati, OH

Time it took to sell:  10  years

Where and When Purchased: NYC Rocket Science on Carmine Street mid 90's $5 bin got for $1 or $3 with about 5 repricing tags on it

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B 

Sad To See It Go: No

This 1993 release of The Creation recorded live around the quarter century mark is not the place to start.  There are plenty of compilations and original 60's releases to track down that serve this band better justice.  However as a bargain bin find digging through the $5 and under bin, this was a great deal.  I'm pretty sure I got it for a dollar.

Lay The Ghost finds the band before they fully reformed in 1996 with Power Surge.  Don't remember it?  Neither do I.  The original vocalist, Kenny Pickett, is on here.  Kenny passed in early 1997 of a fatal heart attack after this burst of activity.  Drummer Jack Llewyn Jones is also here as is Kinks 60's bass player John Dalton and a couple of place fillers.

I caught the Creation after Pickett's passing sometime in the early aughts at Southpaw in Brooklyn, and I believe original bass player Bob Garner, who passed in 2016, took that vocal chore over.  My memory was the vocalist was just singing, spray painting on canvas and not playing any bass, so maybe that wasn't the case by the time I witnessed a version of the Creation.    You can't knock the songs: "Painter Man," "Tom Tom," "Biff Bang Pow" and "How Does It Feel" are among the best British Rock has to offer.  Covers like "I'm A Man" and of course, "Batman" are there as well.   The excellent title track comes from the forgotten 1987 album Psychedelic Rose.

I'm sure it was a good night at the pub.

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