Jim Sullivan - Plain As Your Eyes Can See video free download


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Uploaded: 2012/05/09

A beautiful folk funk tune from the album "U.F.O." (Light in the Attic).

"Jim Sullivan was a West Coast should-have-been, an Irish-American former high school quarterback whose gift for storytelling earned him cult status in the Malibu bar where he performed nightly. Sullivan was always on the edge of fame; hanging out with movie stars like Harry Dean Stanton, performing on the Jose Feliciano Show, even stealing a cameo in the ultimate hippie movie, Easy Rider. U.F.O. was a different beast to the one-man-and-his-guitar stuff Jim had been doing on stage; instead, it was a fully realized album of scope and imagination, a Folk-Rock record with its head in the stratosphere. The album is punctuated with a string section, other times a Wurlitzer piano provides the driving groove.

In March 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost in the desert. Some think he fell foul of a local family with alleged mafia ties. Some think he was abducted by aliens.

By coincidence -- or perhaps not -- Jim's 1969 debut album was titled U.F.O. Released in tiny numbers on a private label, it too was truly lost, until Seattle's Light In The Attic Records begun a years-long quest to give it the full release it deserves -- and to solve the mystery of Sullivan's disappearance. Only one of those things happened.

For record collectors, some albums are considered impossible to get hold of, records so rare you could sit on eBay for years and not get a sniff of a copy. U.F.O. is one of those albums."

Light in the Attic Records, November 2010.

Comments

10 years ago

Lisergic Queen

Such a mysterious yet fascinating story about him.. the image on the vid remind me the final scene of Being There, when hes walking on the water..:D just beautiful!

11 years ago

BananaPhoPhilly

So strange how he disappeared.

12 years ago

deepspacejazz

Thank you :D !

12 years ago

BEATS BY MSXIII

I Love your channel

13 years ago

bonntv

Extra "O" !

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