Velvert Turner - 1976 - Velvert Turner

  

Velvert Turner was born in Brooklyn in 1951 and died there 49 years later. In between he had a very brief, but thoroughly interesting career. As a teenager in NYC, he became obsessed with guitar and as luck would have it, in 1966 he met Jimi Hendrix who lived in New York at the time and he became the legend's sole understudy. Nobody believed him when he'd tell them about his tutelage under Hendrix, all except Richard Lloyd who went on to become the guitarist of Television. When Hendrix died, Turner formed The Velvert Turner Group and released one album in 1972. I do not have that album yet. This one was described by a person who posted the album on YouTube as "Ultra rare Velvert Turner album released in 1976 on the Tiger Lily tax scam label, catalog #TL14030. This variation includes different mixes, titles and running order of the same songs originally on the 1972 Velvert Turner Group record distributed by Family Productions. The last extra track titled "Sonic Cosmos" is exclusive only to this vinyl. Band members were : Velvert Turner (lead guitar, vocals), Prescott Niles (bass guitar), Tim McGovern (drums) and Christopher Robinson (keyboards)." I had no idea what I was listening to when I put it on... and quickly was enamored. Not so much by the Hendrix influence of the opener, but the stranger songs that followed.

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