The Id (3)

Studio project by Paul Arnold (8) and Jerry Cole. The Id music group was comprised of members of Jerry Cole's core rock and roll group going back to the late 1950’s. (Cole’s recording with The Champs for their hit song “Tequila” is not this core group, but a lucky outside gig with other musicians.) This same group went on to semi-prominence with Jerry Cole And His Spacemen on Capitol records, making high-quality hybrid surf-rock-spaced-out-heavy-vibes on wax. This experience appeared to be a perfect setup for the odd-time signature freak beat and thematic meandering output of the Id and subsequent material that shows up on what is to be described. Outside of the Id, that only recorded material for one LP (dissolving soon after due to money disagreements with Paul Arnold), they continued to make records, mostly demo or concept recordings as the same core group. The bulk of the material was original compositions, but also some adventurous cover material was laid down. Paul Arnold is thought to have taken the original tapes and flipped the material to various budget labels, including Custom Records and Alshire Records. (Some allege that he literally stole the tapes, but this story may be convoluted or simply false, as some stories have been contradicted by players involved.) Alshire (and its international offshoot companies) capitalized on these various recordings for several years, including them being the basis for one of Alshire's most desirable collectable records, The Animated Egg, and the remix project of those tapes used for the Animated Egg album, drenched in psychedelic influenced phasing effects against strings recorded with authority, and Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000 which has also become a de-facto hyper collectable in the crossover genres of lounge, psych, and space themes. The core tapes, that were sold without any of the band members realizing for literally decades (supposedly), found their way onto countless budget records in many different variations depending on the country of release, and were credited to a dizzying array of different artists, most who did not otherwise exist, or wedged in with material by other bands to add more material to their album, one good example being Apricot Brandy & Albatross.