El Sabor - Buy all Gun. And buy all Three Man Army while you are at it. There is plenty of wonderful guitar stuff to marvel at.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.gotarevolution.com/reality.htm
― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, Reality is sitting in my office, and I take out my pen and he says, "Maurice, this is what I want. On band three, bar 30, I want a marijuana leaf to pop out."
I write down, "Band three, bar 30, marijuana leaf pop out." Pop out of the record. He's putting me on, right? But I write it down!
I said, "What else?"
"One more thing, one more thing." He takes a deep toke. "One more thing, Maurice, one more thing."
"Yeah?"
"At the end of side two, as it rejects, I want the record to self-destruct."
So I write down, "End of side two, self-destruct." I wrote this down on a piece of paper.
"Why do you want it to self-destruct?"
He takes a toke and says, "You know why I want it to self-destruct? Because they'll go out and buy it again and I'll get double sales."
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
for some reason this thread's making me want to buy the bon scott and fraternity 2cd.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
You got it!
I recorded a song for a Battiato tribute last year, but it's for an Italian label (Sillyboy), so I guess that's less surprising.
Uh, that IS the tribute I'm writing the liner notes for! I'm friends with the label owner Marco. So wait, which band are you in again?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Scott, reviewed for the Voice, I'm guessing? heh, that would have been totally appropriate subject matter -- although it's always fun to hear Mr. Eddy's take on anything.
But seriously, can't we talk about the Maximillian record instead?! And other, lesser oaf-rock too! Scrubbaloe Caine!
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:25 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:31 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:43 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
(As for Postal Service, um, I guess I prefer Superpitcher.)
― chuck, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:18 (nineteen 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:
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:58 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:17 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (ten 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 (eleven months 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 (eleven months 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 week ago) link