ultra-mega-super-rare 1970 hard rock psychedelic album of which only 54 copies were made! I first saw this in a dealer list over a decade ago with a stratospheric "pie-in-the-sky" price tag of $40,000....I shit you not! Here's you chance to save a fortune and check out what all the fuss is about! Featuring gritty outlaw fuzz guitar!
01 - Hassles
02 - Being In Town
03 - Clown On A Rope
04 - Bad Boy Turns Good
05 - I Call Him Lord
06 - Down On The Farm
07 - Where's The Sun
08 - Sleep Bound
09 - Stranded
This album is notable for the fact that its 1971 review in Creem contains an early documented use of the term "heavy metal" to refer to a style of music. It features very fast-paced, rhythm & blues-based rock 'n' roll with high levels of distortion in the guitar and, in some cases, the bass. Baltimore's heavy style can be compared to early Black Sabbath, the Stooges, MC5. Kingdom Come also makes extensive use of multi-tracking to enhance the guitar sound.
One of my beloved classic psychedelic, bluesy hard rock album from 1970 with lyrics about satanism, vietnam and heroin.
It was recorded in the Cavern Sound Studio, Missouri. The opening cut, "End Of The Page", has a lovely guitar intro and the other highlight is the lengthy "Let's Go To The Sea", which features some great Hendrix's psychedelic guitar work. The remainder of the album comprises harder edged rock cuts, their own interpretation of "Stormy Monday" and "Hooked", which is the best moment on the album vocally. Worth checking out. The band hailed from the Kansas/Missouri area.
A1 End of the Page 4:44 A2 Having a Good Time 4:08 A3 Satan 6:05 A4 Fever Machine Man 6:29 B1 Let's Go to the Sun 8:26 B2 Hooked 4:05 B3 Under the Black Sun 2:55 B4 Stormy Monday 4:48 Sadly, we have no information about the band members. After this album was recorded in Missouri the band members disappeared off the face of the earth. So we are only left with the one album by them. I'm not able to distinguish some songs, because and covers and their own works were performed on approximately one and a rather high level.
Wild US bluesy acid-rock, with fuzzguitar.Solo album of east coast acid blues american combo. Folk, acid blues and psychedelia in 9 tracks now difficult to find like Barnayard blues or an hard surrealistic version of I Don't need no Doctor. Bobby Nothoff of Heavy Balloon also plays with Rocket & theCrazy Horse. Another member of the band C.Osborne also compared on David Peel album and Yoko Ono line-up.
First things first. To describe Blue Cheer, the first word that comes to mind is . . . loud! It was said that the band’s sonic blast could “turn the air into cottage cheese.” The classic “power trio” lineup of guitar, bass and drums is more than capable of knocking down a house, as we easily find out on Blue Cheer’s debut LP, ‘Vincebus Eruptum,’ released in January 1968. Blue Cheer have been cited by many as being the world’s first heavy metal band. That’s true to some extent, perhaps. Iron Butterfly were already on the scene, while Grand Funk Railroad and Led Zeppelin were right around the corner, but none of them were as single (or simple) minded as the bludgeoning attack that was Blue Cheer. In a blur of Roger Corman films, amphetamines, LSD, long hair, loud guitars and teen lust, the roots of metal, grunge and stoner rock can all be found on this one album.
