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First-ever release of lost psychedelic pop album from post-Lomax Alliance Anglo-American trio. Classic Beatles-meets-West-Coast sound from band who played at the Fillmore and the Whisky a Go-Go but failed to land a recording contract.

When post-Undertakers, Brian Epstein-managed UK/US group Lomax Alliance split in mid-1967, Jackie Lomax signed as a solo act with the nascent Apple while his three former colleagues returned to New York. After a US- only single (recorded with Lomax still involved) was issued in the name One, the trio renamed themselves Rain after their favourite Beatles B-side.

With the assistance of Young Rascals engineer (and former Undertakers guitarist) Chris Huston, they cut an acetate-only album of original material that combined Beatles-indebted song construction and harmonies with an early Buffalo Springfield/Byrds-style West Coast feel.

Despite playing in and around Los Angeles and San Francisco at such venues as the Whisky a Go-Go and the Fillmore, they were unable to place the LP, and split after a brief spell as The Gypsy Wizards Band. Now gaining its first-ever issue, Tomorrow Never Comes: The NYC Sessions 1967-1968 features a selection of superb original songs, three of which were reworked from the aborted Lomax Alliance LP plus previously unissued bonus tracks cut a few months later as The Gypsy Wizards Band. .

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Rain

Tomorrow Never Comes: The NYC Sessions 1967-1968

Grapefruit
6 Bonus tracks, Housed in a package that features reproductions of some vintage US handbills and posters as well as photos from Rain's young NY friend Linda Eastman.
Released12/07/2024Catalogue NumberCRSEG149Learn more
Contains 2 Gypsy Wizard tracks
Black
Released21/03/2025Catalogue NumberGUESS265Learn more