Bobby always big ups Blue Cheer and The Stooges more than Sabbath, I think.
― mini-skirt and gogol books (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 4 December 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmbPA6OUjA0
― standing on stage and I'm grabbing my crüts (Edward III), Thursday, 3 February 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
\m/
― gallagher 3 (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 February 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's what I said about Pentagram for the Voice in 2003. It was for a collection and I rated it a little higher than I would now. Not indispensable but it encapsulated Bobby Liebling's thing.
"southern rock OTT Christian guilt" from upstream made me laugh. Liebling definitely had Cotton Mather drilled into him somehow.
Thirty years in the business, almost twice that many records sold—or so it seems. But for Pentagram, persistence of vision works. The collection is mid-'80s Cotton Mather-inspired sludge 'n' cack, a style absolutely no mass demographic is or was interested in—shunned even in Britain, where this band of Virginians was mystifyingly sent to market. "Vampire Love" is a catchy trudge-metal classic; "The Ghoul," Edgar Allan Poe for those prone to tattooing themselves using the nibs off fountain pens. And Bobby Liebling is a Roky Erickson type who mixes blues mumbling, I'm-living-in-a-ram's-head black metal dogma, and Johnny Cash storytelling in the space of an hour and a half.
― Gorge, Thursday, 3 February 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
We did a whole story on Victor Griffin/Pentagram last year, for those into such things. (Griffin lives here in town, is why we devoted so much space to him.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 February 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/68284_150458288337600_150457901670972_287045_6806794_n.jpg
― who let the pawgs out (Edward III), Friday, 4 February 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Liebling founded the first incarnation of Pentagram in Arlington, Va., just outside of Washington, D.C., in 1971. That version of the band had more than a dozen members over the course of the decade, but recorded only three demos and two singles.
^great article, but I think this quote doesnt do the 70's stuff justice.
― The Curse of Dennis Stratton (Bill Magill), Friday, 4 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/articles/meet-dr-doom-pentagrams-bobby-liebling-returns
― just sayin, Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
I just got Be Forewarned on double vinyl via Svart. It's smoking.
― PG Harpy (Doran), Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
Be Forewarned (the song) sounds like a version of the 13th Floor Elevators nurtured in hell.There are a couple of good songs also on the Bedemon reissue.
― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
Saw the Bobby Liebling documentary at SXSW. It's a pretty awesome and unbelievable story, regardless of how you feel about Pentagram.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Kk5K1mLmg
― Hatch, Thursday, 21 April 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
saw the film, which ain't bad at all. I don't have any use for the music.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
Just saw the documentary myself. Goddamn. I don't know how he's doing these days but I hope he's holding it together.
In related news, listening to a lot of Pentagram today.
― A Pick Up Artist's Guide to Negative Approach (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 10 September 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
Despite/maybe because of the basement sound quality, love "Catwalk":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN23dhNaATw
That riff, man, so snakey.
― Vera said that?! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 June 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
Be Forewarned is pretty fuckin' great
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 3 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
I will rep for Review Your Choices but damn if I can’t get the feeling that they are the American Sabbath out my head
― calstars, Saturday, 16 March 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
Bobby is out of jail and they are currently on tour:http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/bobby-liebling-is-back-pentagram-announces-10-city-u-s-tour-in-march/
― Mike Dixn, Saturday, 16 March 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
Just watched the documentary. If the comments in the above link are to be trusted, his later life is even worse than I expected, he went to jail for assaulting his mother, kicked his girlfriend and child out and went back to drugs in a big way.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 May 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link