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

i was listening to uni recording artist pinkany canandy the other day. it will be awhile before i listen again.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/50145.jpg

someone should pay me to create the ultimate album cover database. that is free for anyone to steal from. every album ever will be the goal.

imagine that? with front and back covers. inserts. lyric sheets. does anyone have bill gates' number?

Yeah I picked up that 'White Lace & Strange' thing a couple weeks back... really entertaining comp. I only have the Third Power, Fort Mudge, and Eden's Children albums, so a lot of newness to me. I had heard the Illinois Speed Press album but usually pass it up when I see it in stores.

the Road track is really great! probably the standout to me .. I had no idea that Redding was in a band after Fat MAttress or that album even existed, until a few weeks ago when iamthewitch had a copy up for sale. my interest was piqued so this comp is nice timing.

I wonder how Kurt Cobain heard the Thunder and Roses track in 1987 ?? thrift store find? college radio station?

liner notes are shit .. and have a reluctant, book report-ish quality

hahahah, yeah! ... Which is funny cuz you would expect him to be all OTT and shit

I guess psychic circle is "his" label? they also put out a couple other comps .. a prog one and something else I think.

the road album came out on natural resources. a motown label. between that label and rare earth, berry gordy is my stoner rock god.

i put my fave road track on my hotheads II mix if you wanna download it:

http://www.wvvy.org/listen/content/19feb07mix.mp3

track-list here:

Skot's Rolling Vinyl-To-MP3 Conversion Carnival Thread.

i have an album by corliss on natural resources, i think. not so hot folk-soul stuff.

I guess psychic circle is "his" label? they also put out a couple other comps .. a prog one and something else I think.

yeah, it seems to be his deal. they've done six comps so far, all over the map. as far as mostly white music from the 60s and 70s goes, anyway.

oh... and i think two more just came out in the UK. so that's 8 comps in about six months.

dude has a lot of records. now he must share with the world. i feel kinda bad that i never got into the frond. too many records. has he ever done an album with his american counterpart brother jt? i never got into him either. too many records.

he just make mixes and post them on ilm like me.

when that decibel thing comes out i'll make a corresponding thud mix and post it here. deal? deal!

Re Stackwaddy -- There was a CD which contained everything from their two albums (s/t and Bugger Off!) except their cover of "The Girl from Ipanema." I reckon that isn't missing much. I get it out every now and then. It's a consistantly good listen if you're into their even more knuckle-dragging than the standard takes on white boy blooz and the odd Jethro Tull tune. Favorite song title: Meat Pies Have Come But the Band Ain't Here Yet.

dude has a lot of records. now he must share with the world. i feel kinda bad that i never got into the frond. too many records. has he ever done an album with his american counterpart brother jt? i never got into him either. too many records.

what you said. i know i've heard some frond that was pretty good but there's just tons of cold soup there. brother jt... man, having seen him live (solo) i just don't want anything to do with his music. terrible, terrible sub-beefheart bullshit.

i was really drunk one night at a brother jt show and the crowd was going NUTS and i just couldn't understand it. it just seemed so hokey to me. like mc 900 foot jesus/detachable penis hokey.

Ha-ha. You never had to suffer through John Terlesky's I-eat-mushrooms-and-acid demo cassettes from the 80's.

New Cactus live collection on Rhino Handmade

FORTY BUCKS?! FUCK A RHINO HANDMADE.

i am still so pissed at myself for passing up the black oak arkansas double live when i saw it used for $15.

I don't care about the price-I gotta have the live Cactus

the Toad s/t is a major jam in this vein

awesome 74 live foghat show from new haven on wolfgang's vault:

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/foghat-concert/20053075-2393.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=071212

raging honey hush. really good sound too.

the free disc with the led zeppelin cover mojo called heavy nuggets is pretty awesome:

1. Terry Reid - Tinker Taylor
2. Pretty Things - Old Man Going
3. The Open Mind - Magic Potion
4. Mighty Baby - Egyptian Tomb
5. Second Hand - Rhubarb!
6. Leaf Hound - Freelance Fiend
7. Atomic Rooster - Night Living
8. The Move - Don't Make My Baby Blue
9. Slade - My Life Is Natural
10. Possessed - Climb The Wooden Hills
11. Procol Harum - Long Gone Geek
12. Blossom Toes - Peace Loving Man
13. Luv machine - Witches Wand
14. Pete Brown & Piblokto! - Aeroplane Head Woman
15. Warhorse - Solitude

milo started a thread on that mojo comp. it tis decent indeed.

good fuckin' god the version of leavin' again on this foghat show. it helps if you have your computer hooked up to your stereo. i am blasting this shit right now.

I almost bought that Mojo just for the cd. wonder if it's still around...

every once in while - like now - i have to hear that asbury park sabbath show from 75 on wolfgang's vault. kills me every time.

Introduction 0:15
Killing Yourself To Live 6:06
Hole In The Sky 4:27
Snowblind 6:43
Symptom of the Universe 4:35
War Pigs 7:35
Megalomania 10:06
Sabbra Cadabra Pt.1 5:29
Sabbra Cadabra: Jam / Guitar Solo 7:47
Sabbra Cadabra: Jam / Drum Solo 6:02
Supernaut 2:20
Iron Man 6:12
Guitar Solo / Orchid 2:43
Rock 'N' Roll Doctor (Incomplete)8:40
Black Sabbath 6:40
Spiral Architect 4:34
Children Of The Grave 5:33
Paranoid 3:47

Yeah, that show's sick stuff.

Just went over to wolfgang's vault and I gotta agree, that Foghat show rocks.

i always mean to put a link to this thread here, but i forget. so:

http://www.stonerrock.com/forums2/allposts.asp?Forum=ap442284636&ID=6301&StartAt=0

TONS of cool titles on there. LOTS of stuff I haven't heard. Definitely one of my fave interweb messageboard music threads.

Damn , that website's gonna cost me a lot of dough. Thanks!

Stonerrock.com profiled in the Voice seven years ago! How long it's been. E Pluribus Doomen.

i bought a vinyl reissue of this a long time ago and have just rediscovered the joys of a band that wanted to be cream, except faster and harder and less blues and more orchestral pomp:

http://www.vinylsolution.com/images/products/85515.jpg

i think the 2nd gun album is even better. leaner and meaner. more vicious at times. but i dig them both.

I'm guessing this little curio from Terry Manning would fit the parameters of this thread. I love his version of "guess things happen that way."

I love the cover of that Gun record. And I apparently need to get my hands on the second one.

Terry Manning, eh? Apparently the Forrest Gump of classic rock. Takes credit for Zolar X's Timeless reissue. Guess I didn't read the liner notes on that one close enough.

If you were only partly responsible for the first Point Blank album, you'll always be semi-OK in my book, sir.

i think the 2nd gun album is even better. leaner and meaner. more vicious at times. but i dig them both.

-- scott seward, Friday, January 11, 2008 7:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

huh i didn't even know about that...i don't really know anything abt gun, i just bought it cuz the cover looked can't-miss....i'll have to look for that.

Cross ref Three Man Army and later, Baker-Gurvitz Army. For latter, check if "Mad Jack" from the first LP is too your liking before proceeding further. Anthologies available for both. Have both. Like both. Proceeding from great ----> acquired taste.

i want that terry manning album! chris bell is on that record.

yeah I knew he was the precocious honky that worked on all those Stax tracks, and the Rock City thing w/ C. Bell, (and the Zep III & ZZ Top stuff obv) but I only learned of this solo outing a few months ago.

i heard that baker-gurvitz army thing at a friend it was pretty awesome, i remember the cover being great, like them riding buffalos or something

"(Illusion's IF IT'S SO) is better than i remember:

heavier and funkier that i remember. haven't played it in years. i mean, it's no work of genius, but there is definitely thud involved. and lotsa guitars."

I have all three of their LP's and IMO this is the weakest of the three, but they were a good band overall.

Another band y'all might want to check out is the Rugbys. Their 1969 album, HOT CARGO, isn't much, but the hit single from this album was "You, I" and isn't very hard to find, if you're into 45's. This definitely sounds right in line with the bands being talked about here.

Also (and this might come as a shock), but the Bar-Kays' BLACK ROCK lives up to it's title! Sure, the last two songs on side two are conventional soul songs, but everything else is right up the stoner alley. From that brief-but-magical time in the early seventies when all the funk bands were flirting with hard rock - not just the Bar-Kays, but also Funkadelic, Mother's Finest, Black Merda, Purple Image, and Black Lightning (two singles on MCA).

I'm listening to Trapeze's MEDUSA album right now. I like it, but it sounds a lot more low-energy than what I was expecting. Usually, when people discuss Trapeze, they're lumped in with more manic bands like Sir Lord Baltimore or Dust. I'll keep looking out for the other LP's...

I'm really digging the Bang song "Lions, Christians." Emusic has the catalog.

anyone know for sure whether the bang reissues are cds or cd-rs? i'm kind of wary of them because a guy who was selling them in his store said cd-rs.

i want that terry manning album!

you do! it's really good. sunbeam version has bonus tracks.

slightly outside the scope of the thread - from 1976 - been digging the solid ground made in rock reissue on mellotronen. i don't know if they just totally have no distro in the US or what, but only prog mailorder places and aquarius seem to carry it. great proto-metal/hard rock shit. "every evening, go to discotheques/they drink champagne and listen to t-rex..."

More releases in this vein, both from '69:

- EMERGE, Litter (Probe)
- RATIONALS, Rationals (Crewe)

For years, both of these albums were despised by fans of both bands' earlier, garagier records, but now that the collectors are starting to cream over late '60s/early '70s hard-rock, these LP's might finally get some shine...

i always wondered if that litter album sounded similar to the white lightning stuff...

Trapeze were 'discovered' by the Moody Blues who dragged 'em around with 'em as a support act on one of their big early American tours. Their first album is mellow stuff. Then they morphed into a harder-sounding band. You might have done a bit better with the "We're Just the Band but You're the Show," or whatever it's called. The couple of live albums from this period -- when they were a trio with Hughes as singer -- are the best representation of their hard stuff.

Then Hughes left and they became much more of a generic Seventies rock act, except with an inclination to do lots of funk. Hot Wire is the best-known album from that version of the band. I have it and like it but it has nothing to do with Dust or SLB. xhuxk might like it. That line-up did two albums, were big in San Antone. Then there was another personnel rearrangement that resulted in two or three records and I lost interest.

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Earlier on in this thread, George "The Animal" Steele (is that you?) recommended MEDUSA (the album I found), HOT WIRE, and YOU'RE THE MUSIC, WE'RE JUST THE BAND...I'll be looking out for the other two I don't have.

Right now I'm listening to David Peel & the Lower East Side's AMERICAN REVOLUTION, from 1970...musically, this is cool punkish hard rock that goes down well next to two other Elektra acts, the Stooges and the MC 5. However, you gotta get past Peel's outrageous-for-the-hell-of-it lyrics (anti-religion, anti-cop, anti-everybody...even hippie rock critics hated him back then. I understand that this is the only time Peel ever rocked out; everything else is on the folkish side.