ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA - Long Nights Of Summer - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera Anthology (3CD) - UK Grapefruit Edition

A three-disc set containing the first complete anthology of the British band, playing a very eclectic variety of rock, combining the style of Skip Bifferty, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Move and early Pink Floyd. The first two CDs are the stereo and mono versions of the only album credited as Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, an absolute masterpiece of the psychedelic era - with sitar, Mellotron, sound effects, funny announcements, and so on. The third disc contains the record "Ride A Hustler's Dream" from 1969, recorded already without Elmer Gantry, under the name Velvet Opera. The music on it is a combination of blues, folk and pop-psychedelia - somewhat in the vein of early Blossom Toes, late The Beatles and early Strawbs. Each CD has bonus tracks added, including other studio versions, demo recordings, singles and 50 minutes of tracks from BBC sessions, most of which have never been released. A must!