Hell Below

“mini-LP” box set contains exact album reissues, housed in thick cardboard, gatefold “tip-on” sleeves; 32-page booklet and an reproduction of East of Underground’s 1971 tour poster. CD 1 & CD 2 : Winners of the first annual original magnificent special services entertainment showband contest (1971) Originally issued on The United States Special Services Agency, Europe as a split double LP (CEC-LP-11). Recorded in the studios of American Forces Network, in Frankfurt, Germany. CD 3 : Winners of the second annual original magnificent special services entertainment showband contest (1972). Originally issued on The United States Special Services Agency, Europe as a LP (CEC-LP-15). Recorded in the studios of American Forces Network, in Frankfurt, Germany. East of Underground, SOAP The Black Seeds and The Sound Trek were bands comprised of soldiers stationed in bases across Western Germany during the height of the Vietnam War. While little is known about the bands, the players, and the milieu they came from – other than what can be pieced together from a handful of photos and documents found in a box in the New York Public Library, and the vague recollections of some of those involved.