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....( Originally issued as a private pressing on the Blue Universe label in 1975. This edition issued in 2014. Limited edition of 500 copies. Includes 5 bonus tracks of rehearsals and demos. Comes in a board weight mini-jacket with spine obi and insert booklet with notes from the band all inside of a clear outer resealable mylar sleeve, as shipped by the label. MEMBERS: Jame McGee (electric bass, electric guitar, flute, 12-string guitar), Jeff Saussier (trumpet, coronet), Bill Jones (electric guitar, various toys), and Barry L. Bachman (percussion) with Tom Nicholson (rhodes piano), Brian Gerhab (flute), Diane DuBoise (flute), Samuel Creyer (flute, alto flute), Mason Proffit (recorders), and Linda Kistler (violins). TRACKS: There Is A Universe, Invasion Of The Malladroids: Invasions, Invasion Of The Malladroids: Fields Of Malladroy, Invasion Of The Malladroids: A Battle, Invasion Of The Malladroids: Dirge, Invasion Of The Malladroids: Will There Never Be An End, Intergalactic Crossfire, Solar Winds, To Improvise A Dream, and Galaxy Fire. Bonus Tracks (Rehearsals and Demos): Untitled, The Playing Of The Game Pt. 1, The Playing Of The Game Pt. 2, Enchanted Mountain Pt. 1, and Enchanted Mountain Pt. 2. DESCRIPTION: Probe 10 was a group of high school students in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania who produced this one diamond in the rough album. Something like this needs to be heard by many more folks! It's a great album for those who appreciate adventurous progressive rock music. In some ways, it's like the 1973 Tom Nehls album from Minnesota; actually this sounds more like the spirit of 69, than 1975. One of those genius high school projects, that captures both time and imagination in a bottle. From the linernotes on the front of the spine obi: This masterpiece crawled up my spine like a kundalini snake and proceeded to take the top of my head off. Probe 10 are unquestionably linked to a very specifically American form of proto-prog-into-jazz-rock synthesis of the precise sort Elektra Records used to specialize in, from Tim Buckley's Starsailor (actually this was his debut for Warner Brothers proper in 1970 not an Elektra release) to David Stoughton's Transformer (now there’s an album ripe for reissue). Toss in trumpet fanfare laden acid psych straight out of the C.A. Quintet songbook, the riotously melodic and dense brassy arrangements of McLuhan (here’s another band worthy of your investigation)... and...well...hold on to your hookahs!" —Mutant Sounds. "Unique jazz-rock album with major space-rock vibes. You have to love the way the bass counters the effects-laden guitar solos and heavy fuzz. Considering how many loner folk and hard rock private press albums came from the same time period, discovering something this ambitious and unusual is a real kick. Most of the time, it sounds like the world's best exploito-jazz record, Herb Alpert filtered through Pink Floyd and Quiet Sun.
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