Trizo 50 - DEMO : Return Requested (expanded) 3 x CDs (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
18-T5023
“Only 200x copies available!
Includes an oversize 12-pg 8” x 8” booklet with color photos and an expanded 7,300-word history of TRIZO 50, written by band member Bob DePugh. The three CDs include the original 15-track TRIZIO 50 “Demo – Return Requested” album; thirty-six additional studio recordings; plus a ‘bonus’ third CD, “Live In The Studio,” which has four more studio tracks, as well as a fifteen song live rehearsal set. All “Demo – Return Requested” tracks were re-mixed and re-mastered in 24-bit stereo in 2023. That alone would make this an essential purchase for any psych/garage/power pop/proto punk/proto metal fans. Yet then we also have the startling array of fifty-five additional tracks (including fifteen live tracks), and the 12-page booklet/history of the band with color photos.
In 1973, the legendary Missouri folk-psych band Phantasia changed both its name and musical direction. With an expanded line-up, Trizo 50 careened madly between power pop, glam, psychedelia, proto-metal, pre-punk, hard rock, soft rock and garage. (Hah — yes, there certainly are a lot of different genre categories touched on by Trizo 50 — and all worth hearing!).
Recorded in a small rural town of just 900 people, the 100x copies of their demo album quickly sank into obscurity, only re-emerging decades later on the collector’s market, now fetching well more than $1,000 per copy.
Straddling the 1960 and 1970s, these Trizo 50 releases are a testament both to how small town boys can absorb and reflect music from far beyond their world, and the hard reality behind the promise of rock and roll in America.
For those of you with long memories, these editions are TOTALLY DIFFERENT from earlier releases on the World In Sound label.”