By 1969 Immediate was going down, mostly due to bad handeling of the economy. During the label's last struggling days the crew tried to cash in as much as possible by digging deep in the vaults and release about every surplus they had through a large number of samplers. As it seems they didn't give a hoot about coordinations so many of the recordings appeared on two or three issues almost simultaniously. This is one of the most comprehensive with 23 cuts including rare '45:s and home made jams, unissued finished tracks or rehersals and a couple of odd constellations. Happy days for the student of music history or die-hard fans to any of the acts, but almost too much for the average listener. The musical and audiophile quality isn't very high, with a few exceptions, and that was obviously the reason why the numbers had been unissued or didn't sell in the first place. I do find it rewarding to get no less than one A-side (Tony McPheee) and two B:s (Stones Masonry, Savoy Brown) first released by the shortlived Purdah label and three organ driven instrumentals from "Santa Barbara Machine Head" - a combo that only exsisted a month or so 1967, consisting of four musicians that all would belong to bigger connections eventually. John "Twink" Alder (Pretty Things, Tomorrow), Tony Ashton (Ashton Gardner & Dyke, Badger), Jon Lord (Deep Purple) and Ron Wood (Jeff Beck Group, Faces, Rolling Stones). Those recordings appear like trials, but quite enjoyable anyway with Jon Lord's hammond sounding a lot like what he did with Deep Purple just after. There's also a good piano blues by Jeremy Spencer, two previously unissued Jo-Anne Kelly numbers and a totally OK white blues number by someone called "Stuff Smith". Obviously not the known jazz violinist, more likely Philip Reeves who a few years on would play with Steve Gibbons Band and much later with Inner City Unit and Hawkwind. I'm not even trying to sort out the mess of different vinyl or CD releases, some with different trackings or set-ups, on Immediate or other labels through the years. This is early UK and that's good enough for me. First had label as shown here and matt fold out cover. (SÄM*) (YDÄ*)
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