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Of The Sea 3:10 ░▐ ▌░ 02. I Don't Live Today 4:24 ░▐ ▌░ 03. Five Six 2:54 ░▐ ▌░ 04. Blue Gold 3:15 ░▐ ▌░ 05. Foggy Night 4:33 ░▐ ▌░ 06. Empty Of Your Possession 3:15 ░▐ ▌░ 07. What A Way To Be Laughing 4:23 ░▐ ▌░ 08. Let It Alone 5:25 ░▐ ▌░ 09. Never With You (Acoustic Version) 3:51 ░▐ ▌░ 10. To Catch The Sun 2:16 ░▐ ▌░ 11. Don't Move Girl 2:04 ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ ▄▄▄┌─────────────┐▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ░▐ ▌░ ▒▒▒│ rip notes │▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ░▐ ▌░ └─────────────┘ ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ Born into a musical family Al Manfredi started writing songs ░▐ ▌░ when he was child. He performed his first composition in ░▐ ▌░ public at the age of 11. As a teenager in 1965, he formed the ░▐ ▌░ Nuts & Bolts in the small beach town of San Clemente, ░▐ ▌░ California. Inspired by the Kinks, the Beatles and the Byrds, ░▐ ▌░ the group separated themselves from the pack by also ░▐ ▌░ performing original material written by Manfredi and band ░▐ ▌░ mate Mike Ingram. They were soon playing before packed houses ░▐ ▌░ at local clubs like the Casino in San Clemente. In late 1966 ░▐ ▌░ they changed their name to the Lost & Found and relocated to ░▐ ▌░ Phoenix, Arizona, where they played with Alice CooperÆs early ░▐ ▌░ group, the Spiders, and cut a rare single, ôDonÆt Move Girlö ░▐ ▌░ b/w ôTo Catch the Sun,ö which now commands high coin from ░▐ ▌░ æ60s garage collectors. ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ When they returned to San Clemente in early 1967 their music ░▐ ▌░ had taken a more psychedelic direction. The Lost & Found were ░▐ ▌░ riding high that year, until tragedy struck. Mike Ingram was ░▐ ▌░ found hanged under suspicious circumstances. He was 17 years ░▐ ▌░ old. The death of his closest friend and songwriting partner ░▐ ▌░ shook Manfredi to his core. The group immediately disbanded ░▐ ▌░ and Al moved to New York to get his head together. He ░▐ ▌░ returned to California in 1968 and put together a new band ░▐ ▌░ with Lost & Found drummer Mike Ryer. But just as they began ░▐ ▌░ to make progress, Ryer died of cancer at the age of 19. ░▐ ▌░ Heartbroken, Manfredi gave up on the band scene completely ░▐ ▌░ and moved to Garden Grove to teach at his familyÆs music ░▐ ▌░ store. ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ But alone, behind closed doors, Al kept writing songs and ░▐ ▌░ working on his music, recording hours of tapes, often ░▐ ▌░ tracking all the instruments himself. In 1973 he chose six of ░▐ ▌░ his best songs, some of them written back in the Lost & Found ░▐ ▌░ days, and had them custom-pressed as an LP. Only a handful of ░▐ ▌░ copies were pressed, and most of these were sent out to ░▐ ▌░ various record companies in the hope of landing a deal. ░▐ ▌░ Despite the outstanding quality of the music, there were no ░▐ ▌░ takers. But decades later, collectors discovered the Al ░▐ ▌░ Manfredi album and hailed it a West Coast rock masterpiece. ░▐ ▌░ In his Acid Archives book, Patrick Lundborg called its ░▐ ▌░ discovery a deus ex machina and compared it to David CrosbyÆs ░▐ ▌░ first solo album and Hawaii-era Merrell Fankhauser, ônot just ░▐ ▌░ the acutely captured mellowness, but the self-confidence and ░▐ ▌░ the talent.ö ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ This little-known West Coast rock masterpiece was ░▐ ▌░ rediscovered and celebrated by Acid Archives founder Patrick ░▐ ▌░ Lundborg and others around the time that Manfredi died in ░▐ ▌░ 1995. This version of the album, overseen by ManfrediÆs son ░▐ ▌░ Exile, and with ManfrediÆs story told by Ugly ThingsÆ founder ░▐ ▌░ Mike Stax, presents the complete package of an incredible ░▐ ▌░ lost and found artist. 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