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
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Highway Robbery track is so friggin' FIERCE.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Plunge Protection Team, Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Scott, you need a copy of the Highway Robbery lp? I have a spare ....
― Plunge Protection Team, Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
mindblowin stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF7j7FKzno
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 4 October 2009 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Jeezus, I get it.
― Gorge, Sunday, 4 October 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― an armada of q-tips (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 8 November 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
daaaamn that's hot.
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Gorge, Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Tell me about it. I'm now investigating Stray even as I dig through the aforementioned stuff.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Gorge, Sunday, 8 November 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― President Keyes, Monday, 9 November 2009 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Rhino Handmade boxes Vanilla Fudge
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHJYVgcHVLE
― short-haired valium crazies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 26 September 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
UFO really does not get enough props.
― mini-skirt and gogol books (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 5 December 2010 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link
The first one always gets called boogie rock. I don't hear boogie, though. I hear THUD.
― mini-skirt and gogol books (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 5 December 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Has everyone heard "Rumblin' Man" by Cactus. Jesus Christ! Dunno what it's on other than the "Cactology" set.
― Slade Venom Secret Police (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 29 January 2011 10:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Saturday, 29 January 2011 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
damned dirty danes! dig the bass sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNkdr1aAMxQ
― scott seward, Friday, 18 February 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 27 March 2011 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKz0Yqh7_yg
― GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 27 March 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
This drummer reminds me of a Bill Ward. "Evil" is great.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 27 March 2011 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I found a remaindered cd copy of Silver Metre the other day @ HPB.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I still haven't heard them! Good?
― GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 March 2011 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
That said, it still can get plenty heavy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXolaWYiZG0
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― quantum telescope (+ +), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 31 March 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard those guys on XM the other day, thats pretty good stuff.
― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, 31 March 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i need to buy it, the whole production, vox, everything sounds so vintage it's kinda eerie
― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 31 March 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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 wonder what the "D" stood for.
I kinda like this record.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
poobah, 1972 I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPeEiJSj_nA
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Friday, 26 April 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/bang_proto_doom_metal_cult_band_of_the_early_70s
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 April 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Thursday, 6 October 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
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 stuffhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4rFwyLJn8
― brimstead, Monday, 24 April 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 24 April 2023 00:52 (one year ago) link
No Bob Seger System stuff, either.
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.
― Stevo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 13:13 (one month ago) link