― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
I think Bolin's on the first two Moxy albums, here and there, sometimes uncredited. Moxy were better than Bolin solo albums and superior to Walsh-less James Gang. At one point the band recruited pre-Loverboy Mike Reno. That was their last record, a very poor one, the band aiming for a sound that Loverboy would later own.
― George Smith, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― George Smith, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.rhinohandmade.com/covers243/7871.jpghttp://www.rhinohandmade.com/covers243/7872.jpg
Courtesy of the good folks at Rhino Handmade:
http://www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=7871http://www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=7872
I can't tell you how excited I am to hear that live disc. God I love Rhino Handmade. Although that damn Television live disc is out of print now, and I never got around to getting it. Thing is going for upwards of $40 on eBay. Oh well. Somehow I think I'll be able to take my time with these, though.
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Scott, you know how you cannot possibly fathom how I can like the Postal Service? That's how I feel about you on threads like this. Still got love for you, obv.
-- Matos W.K. (michaelangelomato...), May 18th, 2004.
hahahaha!!!
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 02:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I found Spooky Tooth compilation. I liked the music but the guy with the real high falsetto singing voice didn't do much for me. I need to give that one another couple of spins.
A Deep Purple collection I have never seen get props but is excellent is this 2 cd set I picked up called "In Concert", which has two BBC shows both with DP Mk.II, one for John Peel and another concert right after Machine Head came out. The John Peel Show is blinding, as it is literally weeks after Gillian and Glover joined the band, so they stretch everything out with Blackmore and Lord going all over the place.
I still need to get some Groundhogs.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I am always amazed when I think about the fact that those Savage Resurrection guys were teenagers. Just like I'm always amazed that the Clear Blue Sky and T2 dudes were teenagers. And weren't the Gurvitz brothers teens when they did Gun? what happened to the teens? there haven't been any good teen bands since the glory days of hardcore. there just aren't as many wunderkinds around.
other recent things I picked up were the 2nd Hapshash and the Coloured Coat album (not bad at all!) and the Ashkan record (ehhh... it's ok.)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:48 (eighteen years ago) link
"the frost -vs- frijid pink. who was chillier?"
Yes, and lest we forget Shiver ...
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I've gotten into Rory Gallagher in the past year or so and have been impressed by his records. There is a Deep Purple tie-in, as Roger Glover produced Gallagher's Calling Card lp.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link
http://makemyday.free.fr/70/70poster8.jpg
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 February 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
also: ORANG-UTAN! and STONEWALL! and CHICO (MAGNETIC BAND)! and a little greek instrumental love for BLUE PHANTOM!
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Today I was listening to Lucifer's Friend. What year was that record? 71? maybe it is too prog to be considered "thud-rock" though?
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link
lucifer's friend s/t is 1970, i think.
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
once again I must defer to El Sabor's excellent taste -- he actually recommended the thing to me back on the old Heavy Riffage thred -- I just finally got around to buying it now. I guess I've been scared of these kind of cover albums ever since I was so disappointed by the Flower Travellin' Band's Anywhere
but fuck, this Suck thing is really great -- It's really kind of nice and comforting to hear these old songs reinterpreted by a different group. It kind of makes total sense; in the way that jazz has a kind of core, "fakebook" or whatever, of classic tunes like "Footprints", "Moanin", "Goodbye Old Pork Pie Hat", "Four", "Giant Steps", etc ... kinda cool to think of an alternate universe where these heavy rock tunes have their own canon, and the best groups just kind of have at 'em!!
that's teh vibe I get from this Suck CD. I totally recommend it. Even to people who hated Anywhere. Don't let the cover-song factor dissuade you. They actually change the arrangements a bit, too. The "War Pigs" is great and funky. And the "Into the Fire" was really unexpected, kind of LESS-heavy as the Purple, but still a completely enjoyable version of the cut..
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 5 February 2006 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link
hmmm... this is what Popoff sayz about that "A Foot in Coldwater" lp:
'Stilted execution and equally stiff production once again plague this band of Canuck hopefuls, lone love light being the soaring vocals of Alan Machin. But there are five loud rock songs on this half-reish album, and each of those is less stingly on the top end than the brown towners from the past. The band revive two of their hit singles on the album as well, "(Make Me Do) Anything you Want" and "(Isn't Love Unkind) In my Life)" (plus two other earlier songs), providing the band with mild hits once again, this time top25ers becoming top10ers. Best of the bunch is "all Around Us" which begins as a bit of funky go-nowhere before exploding into a sinister progressive pomp-rock chorus, all told, the most ambitious track from the band's catalogue. "It's Only love" is perhaps the band's loudest, noisiest, sludgiest track ever, all sorts of guitar squalls burying Machin's valient rock-hero vocals. Again, a frustrating band, in total, not heavy enough for the metalheads and not too mentally proficiently [sic??] and financially blocked to churn out (new) proper pop singles.'
??
ah well, they sound kind of hot. bear in mind that Popoff basically thinks that the Chrysalis-era UFO is like the best band EVER, and he HATES s/t & Flying. he's a puzzler, to be sure
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 5 February 2006 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― George the Animal Steele, Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
http://chrisgoesrock.blogspot.com/2006/02/suck-time-to-suck-raw-dirty-hardrock.html
dude has the whole album for download.
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link
has anyone heard the Barbara, Hill, Chris, Ethridge - "L.A. Getaway" album that he links on there? i picked it up recently and it's really good (although not thudrock)
here are some of my other fave sites for downloading psych and proghttp://8daysinapril.blogspot.com/http://chocoreve.blogspot.com/http://kosstacmina.blogspot.com/http://lysergia.blogspot.com/
― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― George the Animal Steele, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― George the Animal Steele, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link
i'd read that
― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link
xp - been reading those same blogs, jason, and i feel like it's endangering my sanity. 8daysinapril is killing me.
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Coincidentally on the topic, "Sludge in the Seventies"
http://www.emusic.com/lists/showlist.html?lid=505486&nickname=GeorgeSmith
― George the Animal Steele, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.techwebsound.com/
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
sooooooo. Decibel is doing an upcoming issue devoted to stoner rock and i said i would do a list of 50 forgotten 70's thud-rock klassix. meaning proto-metal, meaning stoner blooze, meaning i could have just as easily revived the heavy riffage thread. i'm wondering whether i should go heavy on the (after the fact) canon or go mega-obscure or be more dollar bin friendly or what. should i throw in some rural prog riffing a la my beloved wishbone ash and glass harp or keep things dirty and smoke-filled a la dust and toe fat? by (after the fact) canon, i'm talking about leafhound, buffalo, pink fairies, sir lord baltimore, pentagram, ya know, great stuff, but kinda listed to death. this will be fun! and obviously no end to what i could add! i'm only writing a sentence (or hopefully two) about each.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
You should do Dick Destiny and the Highway Kings. We did 70's obscuro thud rock in the 80's and more people are looking for the old things on eBay. Brutality was really as obscure as it gets.
Don't forget Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. Your Aussie readers will appreciate it. You should dig up some women, too. Flame, from Long Island, might fit the bill.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd also include Baker-Gurvitz Army. For the tune "Mad Jack" alone. They were the kind of semi-annoying proggy jammy hard rock band with superplayers that has never gotten enough love. You could group them with Three Man Army.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Scott, do you know any Socrates Drank The Conium records? Big saurian dual-guitar blues-psyche from Greece?
Don't know if they're available/rare. I dl'ed one off postpunkjunk last year.
― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Scott, you gotta include Chicken Shack's Imagination Lady! That is not obscure in the sense that is probably isn't all that rare, but obscure in the sense that it is one of the heaviest records that nobody talks about. I wish more people knew that one. Way better than any of the boring earlier Chicken Shack records.
I say you should lean more non-(after-the-fact)canon, aside from of course the can't-avoid listing (and yeah, Buffalo, Pink Fairies and Sir Lord would be there)
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I was listening to the Cactus debut the other day. Holy shit does that rock like an absolute motherfucker. I always liked the story about the backstage fight between them and Sabbath at the Fillmore. I guess Rusty Day got tossed through a wall.
I saw Phil Keaggy mentioned above. A buddy from a family into heavily into the born-again thing took me to a concert of his in '85 or '86. What an unbelievable guitarist.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link