Tom Nehls - I Always Catch the Third Second of a Yellow Light (1973) [Reissue 2019]

A rock concept album, as progressive as it is psychedelic, recorded by a 17 year old Tom Nehls and his high school friends in Minneapolis over a three month period in late 1972.nShipping late April 2019

Tom Nehls’ original notes for I Always Catch The Third Second Of A Yellow Light describe his influences: The Beatles, Zappa, Tolkien. But that amalgamation cannot prepare you for the depths that this wunderkind explored with first-time engineer Paul Stark, who would later found Twin/Tone Records and sign and develop punk legends The Replacements and dozens of other bands. Stark custom pressed a run of 1000 copies of the album for Nehls, but 900 of them were destroyed when Nehls’ basement flooded. He hand-assembled the remaining copies, spray painting the first few covers and then pasting black and white sheets of paper on the rest. He sold a few copies to friends in his high school. And that, for nearly 20 years, was that.