And Spooky Tooth -- seriously, what a band! And they gave the world not only Gary Wright and Mick Jones, but Ariel Bender! Mike Kellie! How can any band compare to one that splintered its way into Foreigner, Mott the Hoople, and the Only Ones?!? Plus, "Cotton Growin' Man"!!!
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
I saw her on the cover of some maternity mag once, so I guess that counts.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
I only have Mount Rushmore 69, but I never play it. It didn't thrill me so much long ago. I should give it another spin.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, and "High on Mount Rushmore" is moronic, but has great singing. I don't know "Mount Rushmore 69" at all. Agreed on Spooky Tooth -- I even like both eras -- I think the "reunion" lineup is awesome. And I'm serious about where all those people ended up; it's so cool.
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:34 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0412/smith.php
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0412/eddy.php
― chuck, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link
(As for Postal Service, um, I guess I prefer Superpitcher.)
― chuck, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
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...
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
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!
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
Bang can be had through the band's website. "Bang -- music shot from guns!" And they were from Philly.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
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?!
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
Most def! And/or "child" and/or "baby".
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
Best "woman" exclamation is the Sir Lord Baltimore dude at the beginning of "Master Heartache".
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link
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!"
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link
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...
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link
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).
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link
Combination Captain Beyond, prog, heavy blooz thud and some funk. And it's not nearly as grand as the theory although the album does comedown 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.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:30 (twenty 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 (thirteen 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 (five months ago) link