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

Stephen Barncard: I remember a particular session that I did not participate in where they were trying to record a teapot. They had a part in a
song where they wanted the teapot to whistle on cue, so they would back the tape up and try to anticipate the delay after the heat was turned
on. Nobody told them they didn't have to do it that way; they could have recorded it separately on a two-track and spun it in. But they were too
wasted to think of that.

Blipcrotch was this weird character that was the leader of the band. I have no idea why Paul signed them, I thought they were terrible, besides
being idiots. I think since Paul lived in the same town as them, he felt sorry for them or something.

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(As for Postal Service, um, I guess I prefer Superpitcher.)

Oh man, that tea kettle story is priceless.

Yes, Pink Fairies (there's a reason my fantasy baseball team is named Kings of Oblivion.) el sabor wrote:

for some reason this thread's making me want to buy the bon scott and fraternity 2cd.

This is actually pretty good! Or at least, the Fraternity tracks I have on a CD compilation are good. Kinda mildly heavy post-hippie back-to-the-land rock. The CD also has tracks from Bon's OTHER pre-AC/DC group .. not so good. The Valentines I think they were called? I'd have to check the CD. It's on See for Miles. I don't know about this 2CD thing, though. I may need to look for that..

Did any of you psychonauts ever get into that Holyground stuff? Any Thundermother fans in the house? I might have to torch one up and throw that on...

Spooky Tooth fans may want to find the first Widowmaker album, which features Luther and a very Spooky-Toothy lead singer. It's the definition of thud-like.

Was that Grand Theft "Hiking Into Eternity" LP really recorded in '72-73, or just some big elaborate mid-'90s hoax? Liner notes and bandmembers' names ("Crowbar Monsoon" yet!) are preposterous, and recording quality is too muddy to be conclusive. It's clearly a Grand Funk parody, but Grand Funk were as ripe for parody in '96 as in '72, weren't they? So it's a mystery. If anyone has a clue, I'd sure love to know!

Bang can be had through the band's website. "Bang -- music shot from guns!" And they were from Philly.

i thought it was actually a parody from the early 70s (allegedly members of bluebird, supposedly a rural rock band). but if it isn't, i can say they did a really good job on the production. fooled me.

leaf hound! yeah! i was just listening to that in the car last night. they should've been huge.

I'm realizing that's an essential ingredient for me. If you can't holler/gargle "WOMAN" with as much feeling as Frijid Pink, you're just not in the major leagues, I'm thinking.

Myonga OTM re: Third World War - High Time is a very good comparison. I still really can't fathom anyone who doesn't love all three MC5 lps. But they are out there. High Time might even be better than the first one; better to dance to, anyway.

Does the Mt. Rushmore lp have them on the cover, like on DP's In Rock?!

Most def! And/or "child" and/or "baby".

Best "woman" exclamation is the Sir Lord Baltimore dude at the beginning of "Master Heartache".

I'm gonna go home tonight and find the Group Therapy cut where he cuts loose with my favorite all time "WOMAN!" My first instinct is that it's on Hey Joe, but I think I'm confusing it with a hall of fame "LISTEN, PEOPLE!"

You know what I don't love as much as some people? That first Zior album. I never heard the second one. Great cover and all...

Ah yes, Dunhill. Home to DEMIAN. Can't believe I didn't like that record the first time I heard it. Thankfully, I came to my senses.

More free associating, has anybody heard this?? I've heard tell that the 18-minute Coloured Balls track on there - "God" - is like, THE great heavy distorto guitar overload track. But alas, it has yet to cross my path.

Never heard the Summer Jam LP -- sounds wicked, though. I mean, side two: God. That's pretty cool. A nice DJ set might segue that and ISB: Creation (at 16:XX, a little more equivocal, maybe).

Combination Captain Beyond, prog, heavy blooz thud and some funk. And it's not nearly as grand as the theory although the album does come
down on the better than average side of things. Review of it by the Saint of Cough Syrup can be found on-line at Rolling Stone. The Saint gives Ramatam the thumbs up in an accidentally funny and wretched essay.

They made it to a second record which I never heard.

Yes, it's Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. I have most of it on "Lock Up Your Mothers" which was a box set of three or four albums worth of material. Most of it, entirely great and about a step or a year on from the "black" Grand Funk live album.

Thanks for the link about that 70s metal book, I will check that out.
Some aspiring label needs to get together and make a nuggets style compilation of this kind of stuff, I know I would be interested.

GIMME

do like a bit of this stonery stuff. Whatever its called. Still struggling to work out why revisionists have invented a year 1990 year zero for music that is rooted much earlier. Like a later garage where teens try the same process on harder heavier rock. & people with proven ability try to see what they can do with it.
I'm finally picking up on Japanese stuff I should have got a decade and a half ago. Other international stuff too, like zam rock basically taps into a very similar feel.