Rolling Late-60's/Early-70's Thud-Rock Thread

hey, you know what? my intensity mix is still up online. i thought it was long gone. well, in case you missed it the first time, here's the track listing and link:

Tracks - Street Fighting Man (So rare you won't even find it on a WFMU playlist! Seriously, many great songs and albums only exist on the interweb as part of an old FMU playlist. I know, I've checked! Anyway, Tracks were a Boston-based band and they made one triple-album(!!!) boxed set(!!!) in the early 70's of seriously accomplished hard/prog/southern rock jamz and nobody has ever heard it. But now YOU have! A little.)

Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart - It's All Happening On The Inside/Abracadabra/Jumping Jack Flash (The whole first side of Tommy & Bobby's greatest achievment is one long song/suite, so you get three interlocking parts. I've played this at least a hundred times over the years. They are my gods.)

Mandala - Come On Home (Mandala made one late-60's white soul album that yields exactly one song with a guitar solo so sharp and piercing that it will leave you bloody for weeks.)

Noah - Bury The Remains (death-pop piffle. a bit of a breather.)

Glass Harp - Changes (In The Heart Of My Own True Love) (More fireworks. Courtesy of Phil Keaggy,a guitar god if there ever was one. Three amazing albums of powerful prog/hard rock and then Phil was off to do the lord's work.)

Orion - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (*Token Novelty Number* But, you know, with lots of crazy guitars.)

Redwing - Soul Theft (rockage.)

The Gentrys - Stroll On (genius rockage. from a genius album.)

Song - Medicine Man (So hard to pick one song from this album. It's all good. This is the mammoth closer. It has to be the heaviest thing that Curt Boettcher ever had a hand on.)

Circus - Stop Wait & Listen (Local pop-rock band from Ohio makes an album of cool rocking stuff, puts it out on their own label, and then...well, nothing. This one coulda been big. Maybe.)

Terry Brooks & Strange - Mister Strange (This is what cult guitar heroes are made of. From 1980 and released on Terry's own Star People Records.)

Harvey Mandel - Bite The Electric Eel (Noodles! Lots and lots of noodles!)

The Max Demian Band - See Me Comin' Down (Cool Thin Lizzy rip from Herman Hesse obsessed hard rockers.)

Dirty Angels - You Got Me Runnin' (Another great album from an unjustly forgotten band. This thing just keeps on giving.)

A Foot In Cold Water - Yalla Yae (Canucks invent the new wave of british heavy metal years before the fact and don't even break a sweat.)

Valhalla - I'm Not Askin' (Again, hard to pick one song. One of my fave records of all time. Along with label-mates The Damnation Of Adam Blessing, Valhalla were made of greater stuff than most. Now on CD! I think.)

Underground Sunshine - Gimme Some Lovin' (Best known for their Beatles Birthday cover, this is simply 8 minutes of senseless mindless fuzz abuse.)

Thee Image - Show Your Love (Unbelievably over-the-top. A friggin' monument to over-the-top. A word to the wise: always buy a record if someone in the band is wearing a cape on the back cover.)

http://dutchtoenglish.com/Intensity%20In%209%20&%20A%20Half%20Cities.mp3

not all "thud", but, you know, rockage and such. still sounds good. i'm listening to it now. cheaper than a bevis frond comp.

and you can still listen to side one of my last hotheads mix. for some reason side two cuts off after the track by the esperanto orchestra. here's side one:

(1971) curtiss/maldoon - man from afghanistan

(1970) houston - hairy one

(1972) teegarden & van winkle (with bruce) - going down

(1970) bull - feelin' pretty good

(1976) tiger - ordinary girl

(1973) gangsters of love - never is too soon

(1975) rockin' horse - love do me right

(1971) guillotine - hands of children

(1974) aut' chose - le freak de montreal

(1971) peace & quiet - looney tunes

http://www.dutchtoenglish.com/skotmix-hotheads-3-1.mp3

side one is fuckin' killer. that hotheadz mix was the best one i did. i think.

Damn, I only have 2 of those records and i want them all..... and I recently passed on a Damnation of Adam Blessing record- should have known.

newest skull sessions podcast has martin popoff and others discussing dust, ram jam, ursa major, etc, etc, etc,

if you are into that kind of thing:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/SHOCKWAVES-SKULL-SESSIONS-PODCAST-EPISODE-20-19891.aspx

(i haven't actually listened to it, but it looks like a good time for all...)

new Up All Night comp on Past & Present is great! just a superb sampler of hard rockin' psych stuff. kudos!

i think it's out now or very soon.

track-listing:

1. LIQUID SMOKE Warm Touch 2. TIN HOUSE Be Good And Be Kind 3. THE LITTER Journeys 4. THE FINCHLEY BOYS Outcast 5. HIGHWAY ROBBERY Fifteen 6. EUCLID Gimme Some Lovin’ 7. DAMNATION OF ADAM BLESSING Driver 8. SRC Up All Night 9. BANG The Queen 10. DRAGONFLY Enjoy Yourself 11. GRANICUS You’re In America 12. STEEPLECHASE Wrought Iron Man 13. SIR LORD BALTIMORE Kingdom Come 14. JAMUL All You Have Left Is Me 15. POWER OF ZEUS In The Night 16. HAYSTACKS BALBOA The Children Of Heaven 17. THIRD POWER Persecution 18. YESTERDAY’S CHILDREN Providence Bummer 19. HEAD OVER HEELS Road Runner 20. LANDSLIDE Sad and Lonely

Highway Robbery track is so friggin' FIERCE.

decent looking comp, although I have a lot of it. I love that Highway Robbery track .. definitely the highlight of their one LP. I used to play that all the time on my Thud-rock themed radio show. and "Up All Night" has always been my favorite SRC track. do I really need "Persecution" on yet another comp tho? I don't think so. there *are* other good songs on that Third Power lp.

I still think the two heavy psych comps that Bevis Frond put out are the ones to beat. introduced me to a lot of stuff i didn't already know.

Scott, you need a copy of the Highway Robbery lp? I have a spare ....

I just got to hear the Chico Magnetic Band album (I'm sure it was mentioned on here somewhere) and I'm totally in love! Great sound, particularly the percussion.

Now I just need to track down a reasonably priced copy...

i do want the highway robbery album. they are pricey. i can't really do pricey for myself right now. maybe i could trade you something.

i thought the bevis frond comps were a little uneven. but good! and a nice mix of rare stuff and dollar bin stuff.

i think this new comp is just a really good primer for people. a lot of it is what i would put on a hard rock/proto-metal nuggets boxed set. why won't rhino let me compile a boxed set like this? oh right i never asked them. someone should do it.

got my Tempest album in the mail today. another album i needed. the first Tempest album with Alan Holdsworth. Euro copies still sell for 50 bucks and up and I got a U.S. promo on ebay for $1.75! Sounds great.

mindblowin stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF7j7FKzno

Jeezus, I get it.

Stray's 1971 album rules so hard. As always I'm not quite sure it fits in here. No, fuck that, it fits. When they build up a head of steam they sound like the brit MC5 or something. Alright, maybe not, but still... real good. I mean, Iron Maiden covered them, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coMlCLX4sP0

daaaamn that's hot.

Stray had quite a few moments. Suicide -- the very next album was their heaviest. The first had a bit of flower-power, as once can hear in that tune, in it.

Saturday Morning Pictures was about their high point in England. A few years ago there were at least two anthologies in circulation, both giving the curious a good place to start. They tried quite a few things on for size over the course of their career, often resembling a poor man's Status Quo.

I have a few of their record, pretty much like them all.

Things I...obtained overnight: Paul Kossoff's Back Street Crawler, the Black Cat Bones' Barbed Wire Sandwich, the two Killing Floor albums, the Kossoff Kirke Tetsu Rabbit album, the first Leaf Hound album.

I'm fairly certain there are an infinite number of obscure and cool hard/heavy rock bands that existed from 70-74, i feel like i hear of a new one every two weeks

I'm fairly certain there are an infinite number of obscure and cool hard/heavy rock bands that existed from 70-74, i feel like i hear of a new one every two weeks

Tell me about it. I'm now investigating Stray even as I dig through the aforementioned stuff.

Search this on YouTube, didn't want to add the link because of potential for embed fever bogging and crashing the threat.

Peter Frampton+Humble Pie Astoria Memorial Concert "AMC Four Day Creep" 20th April 2001.

Frampton, Ridley -- who died a couple years later, the ever present Clem Clempson and Jerry
Shirley at a memorial show.

The tune just punches your face.

I like the flower-powery stuff on Stray's first album--especially "Around the World in 80 Days."

I'm currently listening to German proto-Metal band Night Sun's "Mournin'" (which seems less proto- than actual- metal.)

Rhino Handmade boxes Vanilla Fudge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytduMVvGwu0

I totally recommend the s/t, post-Van Them album on Happy Tiger circa 1969. This is the thuddinest track, the rest is like heavier garage stuff, a surprisingly decent cover of "In The Midnight Hour," a song that should generally probably not be covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHJYVgcHVLE

UFO really does not get enough props.

The first one always gets called boogie rock. I don't hear boogie, though. I hear THUD.

Has everyone heard "Rumblin' Man" by Cactus. Jesus Christ! Dunno what it's on other than the "Cactology" set.

I mean it was "previously unreleased" when that came out.

It was included on the Rhino Handmade set of their complete studio recordings, but that thing goes for $70 and up on eBay/Amazon.

damned dirty danes! dig the bass sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNkdr1aAMxQ

That Gasolin track is tight, btw.

Wanna buy the whole world copies of Cactus' "Restrictions" album right now. Some amazing, epic jams on there. Couple of throwaways but they're short and not annoying.

Also, PINK FAIRIES FINLAND FREAKOUT = AWESOME.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKz0Yqh7_yg

This drummer reminds me of a Bill Ward. "Evil" is great.

I found a remaindered cd copy of Silver Metre the other day @ HPB.

I still haven't heard them! Good?

Silver Metre-It's pretty good. I was expecting something heavier. It's stripped down--Leigh Stevens comes off in check, playing simple rhythm guitar with o/d solos instead of piling on masses of sludge. The singer sounds like a mushmouthed Lee Michaels. The covers are somewhat far afield-- "Superstar" (as in Jesus Christ...) and three early Elton John songs, including "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun" which is like Country-Thud and my favorite song on the album.

That said, it still can get plenty heavy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXolaWYiZG0

doesn't thud out of the gate (do flutes negate thud?) but the samples i've heard of the new Steel Mill reissue might appeal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqvGkNLGekQ&feature=related

Mount Carmel, new band on Stiltbreeze is totes thud rock, if you closed your eyes you'd never know this wasn't from like 73

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRP07oJDwCs

I heard those guys on XM the other day, thats pretty good stuff.

yeah i need to buy it, the whole production, vox, everything sounds so vintage it's kinda eerie

It's getting too late for me to play the loud stuff (shhhh, the baby is sleeping), so I put on the album by ONE on Grunt from 72. Incomprehensible hippy gibberish!! But I love it. The singer pretends she is a trumpet and a flute!! At least I think she is a she.
The singer had the best name in all of rock, too. Are you ready for it: REALITY "D" BLIPCROTCH !!!

I wonder what the "D" stood for.

I kinda like this record.

poobah, 1972 I guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPeEiJSj_nA

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/bang_proto_doom_metal_cult_band_of_the_early_70s

Those first two Point Blank records are some good ole' rawk. They definitely have some awesome crunchy sounding guitars and lots of leads. You can see why Bill Ham signed them as they do have some ZZ tendencies in their sound.

this Mariani album perpetuum mobilefrom 1970 (feat Eric Johnson) totally rips.
insane guitar solos, great drumming, great lyrics about getting stoned and looking at the sky and stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4rFwyLJn8

This new Cherry Red box, We're An American Band: A Journey Through The USA Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973, is pretty good. I'm working on a lengthy review; all the usual suspects are represented, with one notable exception: nothing by the Amboy Dukes.

No Bob Seger System stuff, either.