Name: Turn On Or Turn Me Down
Brand: N.S.U.

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MBTCD014

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-04-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

N.S.U.

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Secret Records

CD released to accompany Record Store Day Vinyl release. Album first released 1969 and an air of mystery surrounds this album, and indeed, even the label on which it was originally released. DJ and percussionist Count Simon de la Bedoyere (aka Simon Stable) set up the Stable label in 1968, only to fold it a year later, but during that brief spell it released a handful of great albums. One of those was "Turn On, Or Turn Me Down", the only album made by psychedelic blues rock band N.S.U.. Hailing from Glasgow, and setting out their stall by taking their name from the first track on the first Cream album, they recorded the album over 3 days in February 1969 at De Lane Lea in Holborn, London, a cutting edge studio where Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd had also recorded. In their 2017 "Buried Treasure" feature on the album, Classic Rock magazine highlighted guitarist Ernest Rea's "glorious flashes of acid-fuzz soloing". The band was assisted on backing vocals by the legendary Sue and Sunny, ubiquitous at about that time, singing back-up on Joe Cocker's "With A Little Help From My Friends", "20th Century Boy" for T. Rex and for the likes of Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones, Elton John and even Frank Zappa. The album features eight original band compositions together with their 8 minute version of the old blues song "On The Road Again", popularised by Canned Heat.

Turn On Or Turn Me Down

Music GB