Rolling Late-60's/Early-70's Thud-Rock Thread

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.

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.

mindblowin stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF7j7FKzno

Jeezus, I get it.

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

daaaamn that's hot.

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.

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.

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

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

Tell me about it. I'm now investigating Stray even as I dig through the aforementioned stuff.

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.

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.)

Rhino Handmade boxes Vanilla Fudge

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHJYVgcHVLE

UFO really does not get enough props.

The first one always gets called boogie rock. I don't hear boogie, though. I hear THUD.

Has everyone heard "Rumblin' Man" by Cactus. Jesus Christ! Dunno what it's on other than the "Cactology" set.

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.

damned dirty danes! dig the bass sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNkdr1aAMxQ

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKz0Yqh7_yg

This drummer reminds me of a Bill Ward. "Evil" is great.

I found a remaindered cd copy of Silver Metre the other day @ HPB.

I still haven't heard them! Good?

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.

That said, it still can get plenty heavy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXolaWYiZG0

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

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

I heard those guys on XM the other day, thats pretty good stuff.

yeah i need to buy it, the whole production, vox, everything sounds so vintage it's kinda eerie

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 kinda like this record.

poobah, 1972 I guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPeEiJSj_nA

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/bang_proto_doom_metal_cult_band_of_the_early_70s

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.

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 stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4rFwyLJn8

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.

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.