THE MARSHMALLOW OVERCOAT
The Complete Sound
2011 limited edition 25th Anniversary 6-CD Box Set
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Summer 2012:THE FIRST EDITION BOX SET IS SOLD OUT!
We will announce soon the general release of the box set and more exciting news!
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They helped shape and then change the course of garage and psych music, spearheading the underground revival of the 1980s all the way through the
new millenium. Now we are proud to announce a garage-rock milestone: the
25-year exhaustive box set for garage-psych maestros The Marshmallow
Overcoat.

We have withdrawn all previous releases of the band, and this very limited
edition 6-CD box set is now the only official Marshmallow Overcoat release
available. "The re-mastered sound is so much better than previous album
versions," says producer Timothy Gassen. "This box set is the Marshmallow
Overcoat."

The 6-CD box set also is literally "The Complete Sound" — It took months to
collect the decades of original master tapes and materials needed to edit,
meticulously re-master and create it. Scores of previously unpublished
photos, detailed new liner notes, bonus music videos and every audio
release from the 25-year band history jam the 6 CDs — and the 138 songs
are topped with unreleased tracks and briliiant new songs.

This collection is essential for true fans of garage-psych music.

This is "The Complete Sound."
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GO HERE FOR A COMPLETE BOX SET TRACK LIST OF AUDIO & VIDEO


The "Psilocybic Mind" music video from the new "Complete Sound" box set.
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A BRIEF BAND INTRODUCTION:

The infection blossomed in the spring of 1986, when Gassen pushed four other kindred
cavemen into a Tucson, Arizona living room to cut their first demo. They didn't know it at the
time, but they were triggering a chain reaction leading to international tours, MTV video airplay,
college radio chart-toppers, and a tireless schedule of recording.

That lovably crude demo turned into their debut "Groovy Little Trip" 45 for Los Angeles'
Dionysus Records, and suddenly there was no turning back. The records started pouring out,
and by 2011 more than 35 CD, LP, 45 and compilation appearances had seen release.

Critics were confused, dumbfounded, or happily startled at the band's approach and delivery.
"The best material here is capable of peeling the fluorescent paint off one's walls," wrote the
Arizona Daily Star inresponse to their first LP, "The Inner Groove."

Recorded for $250 in a friend's living room studio, "The Inner Groove" featured fuzzed
Rickenbacker 12-string guitars, a vintage Sears toy organ, and vocals suitably delivered from
the bathroom via a long microphone cable. Like most of their later records, it was also drenched
in tremolo, reverb, Vox, Farfisa, and the wheezings of a broken old "Kustom Kraft" guitar amplifier.

Bigger budgets and more elaborate studios ensued, with the resulting albums bringing more
to cheer about. "The Overcoat has the roller coaster lilt of sheer pop and the feel of magic,"
exclaimed England's Unhinged Magazine, while back in the U.S., Buzz Magazine observed that
The Marshmallow Overcoat "is the cerebral nugget that blows the lid off the underground!"

The UK psychedelic bible Freakbeat Magazine contended their second album "Try On The
Marshmallow Overcoat should be listened to 1000 times. This LP holds its own with the most
revered of classics."

And as the recording studio became a second home, so did the tour van. The Marshmallow
Overcoat wore out countless tires on American and Canadian roads, blasting the fuzz and
Farfisa throughout the hemisphere.

A two month 1992 European tour prompted wild shows from Holland all the way to Greece as
the band's sweaty stage show scorched the Continent. France's Kinetic Vibes Magazine wrote
that the band "creates an apocalyptic universe of shapes and colours ... an alchemy of sounds
that subliminally invade the depths of our minds and spin in the unexplored zones of our psyche."

Italy's Davy Magazine also reacted strongly to the European invasion. "Like a piece of wood left
too long in the rain, The Overcoat has assumed weird and twisted forms. Music from the last
outpost of the world could hardly be more mysterious."

The band wore their influences on their sleeves — literally. Paisley shirts (long sleeve and
buttoned at the top, of course), shaggy hair, Beatle boots and pegged-leg pants were the
normal attire, on stage or off.

Musically, they gladly credited the cream of the original 1960s garage/psych crop as their
fathers. The Marshmallow Overcoat's records are jammed with loving nods to The Electric
Prunes, Chocolate Watch Band, Blues Magoos, Strawberry Alarm Clock and Music Machine,
among countless others.

The band's lava-lamp anthems might be heard as only musical graffiti to the uninformed.
Perhaps only true believers can understand these sounds as the indelible benchmarks of a
paisley-punk mission.

But The Marshmallow Overcoat won't be forgotten — there's a band in a garage down the
street right now trying hard to learn their songs.

— MARCUS TYBALT, Jr.