LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

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Sundazed's album Introducing...The E-Types was only half the story. While compiling the long overdue debut collection by this legendary Salinas, Calif. fivesome-who had the uncanny ability of adding hackle-raising Beatles three-part harmonies to eerie keyboard-laced numbers the Zombies would have died for - we uncovered some vintage reels of live material. Meticulously recorded at the Rainbow Ballroom in Fresno, Calif. in late 1966, these tracks show the E-Types at the peak of their performing powers, adding stunning versions of classics by the Yardbirds, the Beau Brummels and Bob Dylan to live renderings of their own powerful arsenal of original material. Although it took 30 years to get the first E-Types album into orbit, the second one is already smoking on the launchpad.