ZIPPER - s/t LP

Opened but still in shrink. Never played. NM/NM

BLOWING OUR MINDS AND EARS!!

Original artwork restored and contains two bonus tracks not found on the original album!!

"File under awesome. 1973 no-frills, no bullshit, cock rock. This is Zipper—Fred Cole and company’s sicko American twist on Zeppelin and Black Sabbath." - Aquarium Drunkard

For their 50th label release, Permanent Records announce the 40th Anniversary reissue of Zipper's self-titled LP from 1975!! You all know Fred Cole from Dead Moon. And yes, Pierced Arrows too! But preceding both of his more "famous" bands (and others like The Rats, etc, etc) was Zipper! Formed when Fred and Toody Cole returned to Portland, Oregon after homesteading in Alaska, Zipper was the beginning of both Whizeagle Records, their in-house label, and Fred's long illustrious DIY RnR career.

Equal parts acid fried psych, raw blistering guitar fireworks, proto-punk pummel and bone crunchin' heavy rock machismo, Zipper was Fred's headfirst dive back into the rock world after his disillusionment with the "garage scene" post Weeds / Lollipop Shoppe (WEEDS is IN STOCK too!). No managers to tell him what songs to play or what "sound" was in. No label to fight with. Just Fred Cole and a close knit group of fellow disenchanted rock n rollers (Lorry Erk, Jim Roos and Greg Shadoan), playing their in-the-red whiskey and cigarette fueled music as loud and furious as can be!!

"Fred Cole’s mid-70s album is as uncompromising as anything he’s done. His vocal style is especially strident on these hard rock songs, which don’t have the garage-style feel of Dead Moon or the occasional subtleties of Lollipop Shoppe. The first song is a bunch of raunchy double-entendres. Pretty twisted…This LP is worth hearing. It’s unique and wild. And the cover is handmade to the extreme." - ACID ARCHIVES

FOR FANS OF: Dead Moon, Led Zeppelin, Granicus, Jerusalem, Grand Funk Railroad