21-01-07 - 28-01-07

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Guana Batz - Get Around

Guana Batz is one of the Psychobilly scene's most successful bands. The Guana Batz formed in 1982 and their aim was to play high octane rock n´ roll and rockabilly 50´s based music with a rebel attitude, which was started by the greats, such as Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis among others.

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Pan & Regaliz - 1971 - Pan Y Regaliz (256@+Covers)

One of the rarest psych/prog albums recorded by a Spanish band in the early seventies. A world class item featuring spaced vocals, effects, astonishing guitar work, flute...

Orginally released in 1971 on the Dimension label it has a ghostly, surreal atmosphere and is reminiscent of early Pink Floyd & Group 1850 with acid folk chucked in for good measure/madness.


Line up
Arturo Domingo: bass and vocals
Alfonso Bou: guitars, vocals
Pedro Van Eeckhout: drums, percussion
Guillermo Paris: vocals, flute

One of the pioneers of the Spanish Progressive, in the vein of the psychedelic-prog ambience. A band with a high instability in its line-up that didn't let it to become an important one. J.J. Iglesias (Revista Atropos)

Spain isn't the first place you think of for psychedelic gems, and especially not during the Franco regime, but Pan & Regaliz pulled off such an album, in 1971, during Franco's regime. This album was thought of as sounding like Jethro Tull's Stand Up under the influence of acid.Strange psychedelic sounds can be heard in the background to many of the songs. And while released in 1971, the music has a more late 1960s feel. All the vocals are in English. Some of my favorites include "I Can Fly", "One More Day", "Today, It's Raining", "Waiting in the Monster's Garden", and "Thinking in Mary". A wonderful album that really took me be surprise. Also, this album is very rare and collectible, but if you can track down a copy, you too will be pleasantly surprised.


The first incarnation of Agua de Regaliz released a first single with the historic Els 4 Vents. Then, they decided to sign a better contract with Dimension label and change the name to "Pan" and eventually to "Pan & Regaliz" for the people to identify them with the first band. They had contract problems with the label but that was not a problem to record and release their only long play "Pan y Regaliz, featuring now Pedro Van Eeckout on drums. They recorded eight songs in english in a progressive psychedelic style, very unusual in Spain. Songs like "Dead of love", "Thinking in Mary" and "A song for a friend" were made thinking of a single in the purest psychedelic pop style with Jethro Tull touches. But songs like "One more day", "When you are so bring down", "I can Fly" and the experimental ones like "Waiting in the Munster's Garden" and "Today it is raining" make this record highly recommendable. e special touch of Guillen Paris on flute and the way that he modulates his voice, in addition to the excelent contributions of the other muscians, make this record one of the best in that time, and it has nothing to miss from any Krautrock or English prog band. Manuel Dachada

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pan___regaliz_-_1971_-_pan___regaliz.rar

Crawling Walls - 1985 - Inner Limits

Crawling Walls -Inner Limits

This is another long OOP Lp from Voxx, that never reissued. Recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico and released in 1985 from Voxx (and Lolita in Europe). The band (never seen performing live, as mentioned in "Knights of Fuzz") maybe had the "curse of Voxx" i.e disbanding right after the release of their album, or maybe was an one-off only project.
The album kicks off with "Fly Tonight", a crazed garage track, followed by the 6 minute-long title track, which speeds up and slowes down, complete with an eastern scale solo from the Vox organ of the leader Bob Fountain. The highlight is "She's so wild", another speeding-slowing track, with a superb guitar-organ dialogue. The speedy instrumental "Go-Go 85" closes the a-side. The b-side runs in the same vein with 3-minute songs, delivered straight from 1966, full of teenage fever and naive lyrics, with "Tell me why" and "One Last Kiss" outstanding, and closes with the calmed-down "Bittesweet", up-lifting, almost pop-psych tune that features a nice guitar solo.
To my ears, this one stands side-by-side with the teenage garage anthems of the Pebbles or the Moxie records, which apparently the band had studied very well, alongside with the ? and the Mysterians. Its garagey, vox organ-dominated sound, the tempo changes and the very american backing vocals are refreshing enough for me.



Line-up
Bob Fountain: Vox orgn, lead vcls
Larry Otis: gtr, vcls
Nancy Martinez: bs, vcls
Richard J.Perez: drms, vcls






At the top of this post is the Lolita cover and right above is the Voxx cover

P.S. Although I don't post something already posted, I made an exception for this: It was posted in July 2006 in the TwilghtZone blog. Not only the link is long gone, but my dearest RYP has posted a review from an (Amazon?) listener, that totally dismissed it as "80’s retro garage band who if they had heard The Fuzztones, The Morlocks or Plan 9 before going into the studio they would have realised they were in the wrong job". Well, this record slipped in my head in a summer night of 1985 and it's there since then. I felt that I ought to give it a chance.

P.S.2 This is my rip, not RYP's

Lazily Spun - 1999 - Untitled cdr

Lazily Spun - 1999 - Untitled cdr

The Lazily Spun are:

Matt Woolham - vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, soundscapes, sound manipulation, bike & bell
Harry Sumnall - bass, harmonium, guitars, q-chord, percussion, tamboura, sitar, autoharp, gopichand, synthesisers, mellotron, sampling, sound FX, soundscapes, theremin, bells & whistles
James Pagella - drums and Ire~Sensi Wisdom
Juan Bercial-Velez - lead guitar & ritual theremin-pole dancing

With co-founding member Anshu Asthana (currently a London based freelance designer), and exploding from a fluctuating free-lifestyle awash with entheogens, the band crafted their sound based upon their love of far out 60s psychedelia, contemporary psych-miscreants, mycology, and studio trickery. Gigs in Manchester (UK) caught the ear of local music legends John Squire (Stone Roses) and Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets) who offered guidance on the golden road (to unlimited devotion). A lovingly crafted demo tape was recorded in 1996, capturing the attention of respected the Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine. A feature article and tracks for consecutive Terrascope 7" releases releases - "Old Guy" and "A Puce Moment" (the latter a cover of the legendary Hermit by Kenneth Anger soundcraft wizard Jonathon Halper) led to a hasty assembled private issue of the band's tunes. Despite being considered a 'demo' (with a view to re-recording with better equipment at a later date) the album was well received in the underground scene and "The Whole" was included on the Camera Obscura compilation Serotonin Ronin II). An EP, Double B Side, was recorded for Earworm records, gaining national airplay on John Peel's Radio 1 show.

Partly due to disillusionment with the Lazily Spun's slow progress, internal tensions, and challenging life events, the original band slowly dissipated. Harry moved cities to Liverpool in order to pursue (and complete in 2002!) a PhD in the psychopharmacology of MDMA, and all seemed lost. Matt resolved many complications by laying down tracks that were to form the backbone of the new Lazily Spun sound. Reconnecting with Harry, the band rehearsed songs with new members until settling with the current (perfect!) line up. James and Juan were both Liverpool based musicians playing and recording with the Living Brain, Vitamina, and Hand Museum. (Sidebar: Harry joins James in Zukanican, a dense free-form outfit dripping with klanging Krautrock influences - debut release expected on Pickled Egg records in late 2002/early 2003).

Photo Scott SterbenzFrom original demos to final mixdown The Lazily Spun's debut album was assembled over 3 years and released on Camera Obscura in March 2003. Some sound samples date back to the first phase of the Lazily Spun and the album features all key members of the band's history in some sonic shape or form. Songs were recorded at Matt and Harry's PC based home-studios (Manchester & Liverpool), Testa Rosa studios (Manchester), Elevator Studios (Liverpool) and Living Brain rehearsal studio (Liverpool).

Their name derives from classic experiments performed in the 1950's whereby flies were injected with various drugs (mescaline, cannabis preparation, LSD, and caffeine) and then fed to the spider Zilla-x-notata Cl. The subsequent webs produced by the spiders were then analysed. LSD and mescaline webs looked as if they were "lazily spun" (!).

Resources:
Band's Web site
CAM055CD - Lazily Spun - s/t

The Goldebriars - Straight Ahead - 1964!!!!

Original Group Members:
Album "Straight Ahead! The GoldeBriars"
From left: Curt Boettcher, Dotti Holmberg, Sheri Holmberg & Ron Neilson

“The GoldeBriars”--An innovative folk-pop-rock group of the 1960s... On the Brink of Success…Starving, Laughing, CryingTheir important role in the Birth of Sunshine PopYou have now beamed yourself back into the 'Sunshine pOP' era of the sixties where you will get to know THE GOLDEBRIARS, a 1960s group who recorded 41 songs with Epic Records & with two released albums: "The GoldeBriars" & "Straight Ahead!"

"Straight Ahead" (Epic #LN24114 & BN26114 (Stereo & Mono) released Aug. 1964)

Biography by Richie U.

The Goldebriars made a couple of obscure pop-folk albums for Epic in 1964. The group is notable not for their pleasant yet lightweight music, but for the inclusion of a few members who subsequently went on to much more significant projects in rock after the band broke up. The most prominent of these was Curt Boettcher, producer and performer of some of the most highly esteemed California sunshine pop of the '60s with the Association, Sagittarius, and the Millennium. Future Music Machine drummer Ron Edgar was also in the Goldebriars briefly in their final days, although he did not play on either of their albums. Vocally, the Goldebriars were built around two sisters, Dotti Holmberg and Sherri Holmberg. At one point, the Goldbriars had three women and Boettcher singing, which, according to the liner notes for their second and final album, "made the group sound very much like the Lennon sisters doing work songs." That's not the kind of selling point anyone would want to push too hard and the non-sister female vocalist left the group, though that might not have corrected the female-male imbalance too much, given Boettcher's own higher-than-average male vocals. Boettcher played guitar and arranged for the Goldebriars, and some hints of the stratospheric vocal blends he would specialize in on his later pop/rock productions can be heard in the group's harmonies. The two Goldebriars LPs, however, are twee period commercial folk music from the tail end of the folk revival, the vocals and arrangements sounding inventive at times, but gratingly precious at others. As was often the case on such folk-pop efforts, there was an almost desperate variety show eclecticism of repertoire, including original material, ethnic songs, protest tunes, traditional folk songs, and spirituals, given a somewhat whitebread treatment. As some other obscure circa 1964 LPs did, there were oh-so-vague hints of a rock rhythm on some of the Goldebriars' material, particular on their second album, Straight Ahead!, which actually had some lightly stroked drums. Ron Edgar has recalled that Boettcher wanted to make the Goldebriars an electric folk-rock group, at a time when the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" had yet to become a hit and codify the style. In fact, toward the end of their life, the group did have an electric bass player, lead guitarist, and drummer (Edgar), and made an unreleased album using electric rock instrumentation. Until or unless that material gets released, however, it won't be possible to judge how innovative that incarnation of the band was. After Edgar left the Music Machine, he did collaborate with Boettcher again on recordings by the Millennium and Sagittarius later in the 1960s.

STRAIGHT AHEAD

Luv'd ones - Truth Gotta Stand ('66 - '68)

Luv'd ones - Truth Gotta Stand ('66 - '68)

01 - Dance Kid Dance

02 - Up Down Sue

03 - Stand Tall

04 - Yeah I'm Feelin' Fine

05 - Walkin' The Dog

06 - Come Back

07 - Scratchy

08 - The Memory Of It All

09 - I'm Leaving You

10 - Truth Gotta Stand

11 - It's Quiet

12 - He Cried

13 - Come On In

14 - Please Get Up

15 - And When I'm Sad

16 - Walk Me To The Door

17 - You'll Never Know

18 - One Day's Mood

19 - Portrait

20 - Your Mind Is

Rising from teen girl band ashes known as the Tremolons, guitarist-gal rocker visionary Char Vinnedge put together the Luv'd Ones, Dunwich's only all-girl punk group. But the Luv'd Ones were no mere boy toys with instruments; under Vinnedge's direction, she wrote the dark, somber originals, played lead guitar and generally directed the band in the male-infested waters of mid-'60s rock & roll. That their siren song was unheard 'til now (a small batch of singles only) is no reflection on their material or their talents, both in abundance on this excellent 20-track compilation. Largely comprising unissued demos and long lost sessions (their sides as the Tremolons are on a separate Sundazed vinyl EP) and all of it steeped in fuzztoned swirls of sound, this is a pretty amazing little collection of DIY female punk spirit done just right. A missing chapter in rock & roll history.
[info:allmusic.com]

Warning: Bitrate 160, except for 3 songs in 128...sorry... I searched and I searched and I searched...

Friday, January 26, 2007

Sons Of Adam - Moxie ep

Sons Of Adam - Moxie ep

01 You're A better Man Than I
02 Saturday's Son
03 Feathered Fish
04 Baby Show The World
05 Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day
06 Take My Hand

Review:
Six of their rare songs, probably dubbed from the vinyl of the original singles. "Baby Show the World" is first-class psychedelic raunch; "Take My Hand" is a poppy number with nice harmonies that sounds kind of like a raw, garage-psychedelic Monkees; and "Saturday's Son," their best track, is a taut, Love-ish rocker with both harmonies and hard-driving guitars. Things get even more Love-ish, naturally, on their cover of the Arthur Lee-penned "Feathered Fish," which guitarist Randy Holden would also record with his next band, the Other Half. This seven-inch EP reissue is hard to find these days, but is definitely worth picking up if you're into rare psychedelia or garage music, as they were one of the best California bands that didn't last or succeed for one reason or another. ~by Richie Unterberger

Biography:
Releasing a few obscure singles in the mid-'60s, this Los Angeles psychedelic band is primarily remembered for just two things. Their guitarist, Randy Holden, went on to Blue Cheer, and they recorded an Arthur Lee composition, "Feathered Fish," which Love never released in their own version. The slim evidence that survives on record suggests they were a good band, though, striking a midpoint between garage pop and California freakouts, and employing distortion and feedback when those traits were still innovative. Their material has been very hard to come by, although an EP reissue appeared in 1980s; someone should reissue their singles on CD, or pad them out with any available unreleased tapes to make an album compilation. ~by Richie Unterberger

The Penny Arkade - Not The Freeze - 1967/1968

The Penny Arkade - Not The Freeze - 1967/1968

I'll admit that I have a few obsessions--one of them is Michael Nesmith and the other is obscure 1960s pop. Sot it kinda goes without saying that this issue of the never-released, Nesmith-produced album by L.A.'s band-that-never-was, Penny Arkade, was meant for me. Perhaps only for me, but I know there are at least a few folks out there who share some of these same sensibilities. According to Nesmith, "the Penny Arkade was quintessentially the L.A. sound&of the time." Compare Arkade tracks such as the head swimming "Thesis" or the remarkably hooky "Country Girl" to Sweetheart-era Byrds or Buffalo Springfield (or the late, Canyon-tripping revivalists of recent years, Beechwood Sparks) and one can't help but wonder how our sense of the late '60s L.A. sound might have been affected had this album seen an official release in its own time. Recorded in 1967 during Nesmith's breaks between Monkees' obligations, a few tracks (such as "Swim," the psych-pop title cut epic "Not the Freeze," or the aptly titled "Year of the Monkey") certainly display inspiration--direct or otherwise--from the collection's producer. In fact, one of Penny Arkade's primary songwriters, the now über-reclusive (and as of the album's pressing, unfindable) Craig Smith, penned "Salesman," the opening cut sung by Nesmith for the Monkees' 1967 release, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. A garage-rock groover like "Give Our Love (To All the People)," though a tad repetitive, is full of energy and could easily be a staple of oldies radio today, as could "Sick and Tired." This is not to say that this "album," assembled from various sessions doesn't have a few weak tracks or suffer from a lack of cohesiveness (musical, thematic, or what have you), but nevertheless it is a wonderful treat for fans of overlooked 1960s pop music. -EDWARD BURCH

GRAB IT
Penny_Arkade.part1.rar
Penny_Arkade.part2.rar

Audience - 1971 - House on the Hill

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1. Jackdaw
2. You're Not Smiling
3. I Had A Dream
4. Raviole
5. Nancy
6. Eye To Eye
7. I Put A Spell On You
8. The House On The Hill
9. Indian Summer

The House on the Hill is Audience's strongest effort, made up of simple, elegantly arranged songs, focusing around Howard Werth's "electric classical" guitar and Keith Gemmel's tenor sax and clarinet. "Jackdaw" has Werth showing off his vocal range by hollering out the chorus in full force. "Raviole" is an instrumental piece painted with lovely acoustic guitar and is one of the real gems on the album. There's not a lot of meat on each of the songs, but the use of flute and vibraphone give this album a unique feel and is deemed interesting mainly for that purpose. The overall atmosphere is quite comfortable, and the hypnotizing effect aroused from the woodwind instruments creates an absorbing mood one might not expect to find here. Snippets of jazz fusion make up the title track, overlapped with some rich saxophone playing. After a few listens, this band slowly rises from being heard to being enjoyable.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Galliard - Strange Pleasure_New Dawn - 1969-1970

Galliard

Personnel:
ANDREW ABBOTT bs A B
GEOFF BROWN vcls A B
DAVE CASWELL woodwind A B
RICHARD PANNELL gtr A B
LESLIE PODRAZA drms A B
JOHN SMITH woodwind A
HARALD BECKETT trumpet, flute, horn B
JOHN HUGHES trombone B
LYLE JENKINS sax B
JOHN MORTON keyb'ds B
TONY ROBERTS sax, flute B
TOMMY THOMAS perc B

ALBUMS:

1(A) STRANGE PLEASURE (Deram Nova (S) DN 4) 1969 R1
2(B) NEW DAWN (Deram SML 1075) 1970 R2
NB: (1) and (2) reissued on one CD (Two Of Us 002) 199?.

45:
1 I Wrapped Her In Ribbons/Hermit And The Knight (Deram DM 306) 1970

Galliard set out as an extremely eclectic band on Strange Pleasure. They juxtapose a woodwind/horn section slyly with rural compositions, creating a pastoral, even medieval atmosphere, starkly contrasting to nervously urban passages, although they borrow from Art Nova's Wrapped Her In Ribbons and give the credits to Geoff Brown. An interesting effort. New Dawn is even more schizophrenic. Hosts of wind parts over a tight rocking backdrop are estranged with naggingly dissonant sitar on the highlight Ask For Nothing, a strongly philosophical number. If you can stand some horns, these are worthwhile albums to own. The single has a non-album B-side.

They also feature on the Nova Sampler playing Skillet. I Wrapped Her In Ribbons has been compiled on See For Miles' Progressive Pop Inside The Seventies (CD).
(Marcel Koopman / Vernon Joynson)

Funkadelic - 1971 - Maggot Brain (256 @+covers)

One of the masterpieces of Psychedelic soul- funk - rock.
It contains one of the best guitar's solo ever made!

According to legend, George Clinton, out of his mind on Orange Sunshine, told Eddie Hazel to play the first half of the song like his mother had just died, and then the second half as if he had found out she was alive. The result was the 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans. Though several other musicians began the track playing, Clinton soon realized the power of Hazel's solo and faded them out so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar. The entire track was recorded in one take.
In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Maggot Brain" at number 71 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks, which I personal think is not fair as it should be at least at top 20!

Maggot Brain is a 1971 album by the American funk band Funkadelic. It was released on Westbound Records. The music swings through psychedelia, hard rock, gospel and soul music, with tremendous variation between each track.In 2003, the album was ranked number 486 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time

Track listing
1. "Maggot Brain" (George Clinton, Eddie Hazel) – 10:20
2. "Can You Get To That" (Clinton, Ernie Harris) – 2:50
3. "Hit It And Quit It" (Clinton, Billy Bass Nelson, Garry Shider) – 3:50
4. "You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks" (Clinton, Judie Jones, B. Worrell) 3.36
5. "Super Stupid" (Clinton, Hazel, Nelson, Tawl Ross) – 3:57
6. "Back In Our Minds" (Fuzzy Haskins) – 2:38
7. "Wars Of Armageddon" (Clinton, Tiki Fulwood, Ross, Worrell) – 9:42

Line up
Lead Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Rhythm Guitar: Tawl Ross
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Bass: Billy Nelson
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Vocals: Parliament, Gary Shider, Bernie Worrell, Tawl Ross

What can I say, everyone should own this album. "Maggot Brain" may be Eddie's finest moment ever. The lyrics are particulary poignant and clever, especially "Can You Get To That" and "You And Your Folks...". Bernie really becomes a dominant force on this album, with his organ adding texture to the acid/R&B guitar stew. Did I mention the beautiful singing? No Funkadelic album would be complete without a freakout song, and "Wars of Armageddon" fits the bill here. It sounds like they pulled out a sound effects album and got funky with it. "Maggot Brain" was written when George asked Eddie to think of the saddest thing he could, to imagine his mother dying. George faded out the rest of the band when Eddie played this, because they weren't playing as well as Eddie, and the result was excellent. The album is Funkadelic at its best in that it's impossible to predict. It starts with a psychedelic solo guitar piece, moves on to a gospel-inflected soul-stirrer, continues with a hard-rock organ-driven tune, swings toward a politically charged soul-gospel piece, soars with one of the first heavy metal tunes in history, moves back into the political realm with a touch of taste and a horn influence, and concludes with a freakout as bizarre as anything ever recorded. This kind of heavy eclecticism would be seen on several of the next Funkadelic albums, but this one is my favorite.
"Maggot Brain" is the greatest instrumental the band ever recorded, owing everything to the genius of Eddie Hazel, who makes listening to the piece an exhausting, terryifying and exhilarating experience. "Can You Get To That", yet another rewrite of a Parliaments song, starts off with acoustic guitars, giving more of an emphasis to Bernie and his organ, with some of the best singing and lyrics on the album. "Hit It & Quit It" is a Worrell showpiece, featuring his vocals and dominated by that heavy organ sound. Hazel's solo at the end is excellent. "You And Your Folks..." is a sequel of sorts to "I Got A Thing...", with impassioned lyrics about the poor and the irresistable 'yeah, yeah, yeah' chant. "Super Stupid" is a high-powered Hazel metal tune, with a still-tasteful if over-the-edge swooping solo. "Back In Our Minds" settles the whole angry stew down, with Environmedian J.W. Jackson playing jew's harp. He would open for Funkadelic on many occasions, doing a stand-up routine. Just when everything has settled down, they finish it with the utterly bizarre "Wars of...", a song that has a great Hazel jam, a ton of sound effects, commentary on urban society, lyrics that include 'more power to the peter, more power to the pussy, more pussy to the peter', and much, much more. Buy this album now if you don't own it!

Download Link

Funkadelic_-_maggot_brain_1971.rar

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - 1967

Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera

Personnel:
COLIN FORSTER gtr A
JOHN FORD bs A B C
ELMER GANTRY vcls, gtr A B C
RICHARD HUDSON drms A B C
JOHN JOYCE vcls C

ALBUMS:
1(A) ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA (Direction 8-63300) 1967 R1
2(C) RIDE A HUSTLER'S DREAM (CBS 63692) 1969 R1

NB: (2) Credited to Velvet Opera. (1) reissued on CD (Repertoire REP 4495-WP) with their six non-album 45 cuts. Also of interest is The Very Best Of (See For Miles SEECD 437) compilation, which compiles tracks from both albums, alongside single tracks and four previously unreleased songs. Fans may also be interested in a mini-LP Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera (Apothecary SORCERY 001), which contains a 1968 BBC Saturday Club session alongside an acetate version of Flames.

45s:
1 Flames/Salisbury Plain (Direction 58-3083) 1967
2 Mary Jane/Dreamy (Direction 58-3481) 1968
3 Volcano/A Quick 'B' (Direction 58-3924) 1969

This Coventry band are best remembered for hard rock single, Flames, a cut from their first album which narrowly missed the charts in 1967. The track was also featured on The Rock Machine Turns You On compilation LP. Featuring Richard Hudson and John Ford of The Strawbs and Hudson-Ford fame the album was full of variety spanning Motown, pop-psych and harder rock genres. Other tracks which catch the ear include the laid back Oscar Brown song I Was Cool, the instrumental Walter Sly Meets Bill Bailey, the Eastern-influenced sitar-based Air, the Beatlesque What's The Point Of Leaving, the melodic Long Nights Of Summer and two tracks - Dream Starts and Reactions Of A Young Man - which veered towards psychedelia.
For the later single, Volcano, they shortened their name to Velvet Opera and also recorded a second album under that name. Although a popular underground band, commercial success eluded them. Ford and Hudson joined The Strawbs when The Velvet Opera disintegrated. In the seventies Elmer Gantry was in Stretch.

The Very Best Of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera (See For Miles SEECD 437) 1995 includes the 'best' of their first album alongside material from Ride A Hustler's Dream, their more progressive second effort recorded under the name Velvet Opera and four previously unissued cuts of which Talk To The Devil is a superb slice of freakbeat from an obscure movie of this name. This stands alongside Flames, their best known cut, as their finest moment on a CD which includes covers of Statesboro Blues and Eleanor Rigby.

Artefacts From The Psychedelic Dungeon CD also features two cuts from a session the band did on John Peel's 'Top Gear' around 1968: their best known number, Flames, and a version of Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower. Other compilation appearances have included:- Air on Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers, Vol. 2 (CD); Mother Writes, All Along The Watchtower and Mary Jane on Hard Up Heroes, Vol. 2 (CD).

TRACKLIST
1 Intro
2 Mother Writes
3 Mary Jane
4 I Was Cool
5 Walter Sly Meets Bill Bailey
6 Air
7 Lookin' For A Happy Life
8 Flames
9 What's The Point Of Leaving
10 Long Nights Of Summer
11 Dream Starts
12 Reaction Of A Young Man
13 Now She's Gone
Bonus Tracks
14 Flames, Single Version
15 Salisbury Plain
16 Mary Jane, Single Version
17 Dreamy
18 Volcano
19 A Quick "B"

GRAB YOUR ELMER

Yellow Autumn - Children Of The Mist (1977, Rare)

Incredible album. A masterpiece I think. Try it. Anyone that could offer “Song of the weeping willow” is always welcome! The original has 8 songs and here “song of the weeping willow” is missing.
Recommended!!

Please help for the missing one....

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Fever Tree - 1968 - Fever Tree

Fever Tree - Fever Tree 1968

01-Imitation Situation 1 (Toccata And Fugue).mp3
02-Where Do You Go.mp3
03-San Franciscan Girls (Return Of The Native).mp3
04-Ninety-Nine And One-Half.mp3
05-Man Who Paints The Pictures.mp3
06-Filligree And Shadow.mp3
07-The Sun Also Rises.mp3
08-Day TripperWe Can Work It Out.mp3
09-Nowadays Clancy Can_t Even Sing.mp3
10-Unlock My Door.mp3
11-Come With Me (Rainsong).mp3


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Fever Tree were an American rock group of the 1960s chiefly known for their anthemic 1968 hit San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native).

The band hailed from Houston, Texas and started in 1966 as folk rock outfit The Bostwick Vines, but changed their name to Fever Tree a year later after the addition of keyboard player Rob Landes. They subsequently moved to San Francisco and got sucked up by the flower power music scene there.

Their fifteen minutes of fame arrived when their anthemic song San Francisco Girls reached #91 in the U.S. charts, somewhen late 1968. Like most of the band's material, it was written by the couple of Scott and Vivian Holtzman who also were their producers. This 4-minute track captured all the band's trademarks: Dennis Keller's incantation-like vocals, the quick shifting between slow parts with an almost sacral feeling and faster, more rock-oriented parts and especially the searing guitar work by Michael Knust.

Fever Tree also released their self-titled debut album in 1968, which charted at #156. A second album, Another Time Another Place followed in 1969. Apart from San Francisco Girls, they never had another hit, although they later also tried writing songs themselves when they had dropped the Holtzmans as producers. The band finally called it a day in 1970 but reformed in 1978 with only guitarist Michael Knust remaining from the original line-up. This new formation made no impact whatsoever, and Fever Tree was not heard of again until 2003 when Michael Knust passed away from an accidental drug overdose.

Fever Tree's first two albums ("Fever Tree" and "Another Time, Another Time") were re-released on October 31, 2006.


Band members

* Dennis Keller - vocals
* Michael Stephen Knust (b. March 11, 1949; d. September 15, 2003) - guitar
* Rob Landes - synthesizer, organ, piano
* E.E. "Bud" Wolfe - bass guitar
* John Tuttle - drums

Discography

* Fever Tree (Uni Records/MCA) - 1968
* Another Time, Another Time (Uni/MCA) - 1968
* Creation (Uni/MCA) - 1969
* For Sale (Ampex) - 1970
* Live at Lake Charles 1978 (Shroom) - 1998


DownloadLink:

http://rapidshare.com/files/12918853/fever_tree.rar.html

Eela Craig - 1971

Austrian prog-rock-band.

It is "an independent mixture of psychedelic, progressive rock, classical music, electronics, jazz & blues with highly artistic demands." This was the masterpiece, which was never reached in level by themselves again. The LP got even better critics than Emerson, Lake & Palmer΄s work Tarkus at the time. The original-LP was released in an edition of 1500 copies. Four discs in Hans Pokora's book 1001 Record Collector Dreams and it can hardly be found today. (with bonus tracks)


Track Listing
1. New born Child (7:45)
2. Selfmade Trip (10:29)
3. A New Way (7:04)
4. Indra Elegy (11:43)
5. Irminsul (2:10)
6. Yggdrasil (3:40)
7. Stories (4:39)
8. Cheese (4:38)

Line-up
Horst Waber / drums
Harald Zuschrader / organ, flute, guitar, sax
Hubert Bognermayer / keyboards
Gerhard English / bass
Heinz Gerstenmair / guitar, organ, vocals
Will Orthofer / vocals, sax

Austria really isn't a hotbed of prog rock, but EELA CRAIG was by and far that country's best known prog rock band, name, for no apparent reason by original guitarist and founder Heinz Gerstmair. This self-entitled album from 1971 is very obscure and known by very few, as it was originally released on a small Austrian label called Pro-Disc and original LPs since commanding around the $500 range. While their later albums tended to be synth-heavy symphonic prog, this one tends to the bluesy/jazzy psych/prog realm, with the Wurlitzer electric piano dominated (and Hammond organ on only two cuts). The bluesy nature of this album has to do with original guitarist Heinz Gerstmair, and vocalist Wil Orthofer, while drummer Horst Waber gave the band that jazzy touch, add that on with the flute, organ, and acoustic guitar of Harald Zuschrader, bass of Gerhard Englisch, and electric piano of Hubert Bognermayr, and you have the original EELA CRAIG lineup.


While their later albums will be in the symphonic-type prog, this debut album is much more experimental somehow close to the Krautrock scene with moments of proto-psych-prog, as their opening track two-part New Born Child (with its primal screams) and jazz-rock (still NBC), but they were sometimes patchy or sloppy (ie: the NBC’s abrupt end of one riff into the final riff break is very clumsy). The self-explanatory Selfmade Trip is an incredible 10-min+ voyage into heavy psychedelic-spacey expansion-minded trip, which will simply ravish early 70’s experimental progheads. Not completely flawless, this track is pure prog. The second side is also made up of two lengthy tracks with the aptly-titled heavily flute-induced A New Way where they share their absolute enthusiasm with us. But the other lengthy (almost 12-min), Indra Elegy, is a keyboard fest mixed with dramatic saturated guitars, heavenly flutes, constant drumming fury, abrupt (but this time well-designed) tempo changes, good bass lines.The bonus tracks on this album are essential to the band’s history and help explain what these guys did for four years between albums.

Download Link:
eela_craig_-__1971.rar

Fresh Blueberry Pancake - 1970 - Heavy

Fresh_Blueberry_Pancake-_Fresh_Blueberry_Pancake.rar

1 Hassles

2 Being in Town

3 Clown on a Rope

4 Bad Boy Turns Good

5 I Call Him Lord

6 Down on the Farm

7 Where's the Sun

8 Sleep Bound

9 Stranded

Here's a rare one that some of you may appreciate...some sweet fuzz guitar licks!

This album is part of the German imprint Shadoks' digging activities in America's acid rock backyard. Fresh Blueberry Pancake is a typical post-Cream power trio, from Pittsburgh, PA. Active from 1968 to 1972, the group did not release any album, but a set of demos was recorded in 1970 and pressed in 54 copies for promotional use. The sound quality is pretty good considering the group probably invested little money in studio time, which makes one think that Shadoks had access to the master tapes. The nine songs clock in at under 33 minutes and are of uneven interest. "Hassles" and "Stranded" stand out thanks to their heavy riffs ("Hassles" sounds derived from Cream's "Politician"), fuzz guitar, and passionate vocals from Tony Impavido, who also handles the bass guitar. Another highlight is the Savoy Brown-tinged "Down on the Farm." Some of the other tracks have a Southern or even Californian feel ("Where's the Sun," for instance) and occasionally hit a religious note ("I Call Him Lord"). Nothing aggravating there; it's only that Fresh Blueberry Pancake's songs can be a bit unimaginative and bland. The trio (completed by guitarist John Behrens and drummer Geoff Rydell) understood the dynamics of blues-rock, but lacked good melodies and superior musicianship. In short, Heavy is mildly entertaining and of interest mostly to collectors of '70s obscurities.

The Kinetic - Live Your Life - 1967

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Kinetic
Personnel incl: ANDY MOBRAY vcls

An English band who recorded in France. They released an album, Live Your Life (French Vogue CLVLX 148) and EP (Suddenly Tomorrow/Letter To Rosetta/Time Of The Season) (French Vogue EPL 8520), both in 1967. Essentially they comprised straight pop material, but Suddenly Tomorrow, was a bit more inventive with some good guitar work and a catchy chorus.

Their French album is now very rare.
Compilation appearances have included: Suddenly Tomorrow on Psychedelia, Vol. 1 (LP) and Hen's Teeth Vol. 1 (CD); Suddenly Tomorrow, Letter To Rosetta, Time Of Season, Live Your Life, Hall Of The Viking, Sunny Cloud, The Train, Childs Song, Willy 'D' Fixer and Jam Around on Sixties Years, Vol. 1 - French 60's EP Collection (CD).

ENJOY

Monday, January 22, 2007

Man - 1975 - feat. John Cipollina - Maximum Darkness

Man feat. John Cipollina - 1975 - Maximum Darkness
(Roundhouse Chalk Farm, London 26-May-1975)
@160kbps

(UK) United Artists UAG 29872

(German) Electrola 1C 064-82 936

(cd) BGO CD 43

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SIDE 1

1. 7171-551 11:07 (Deke Leonard)
2. Codine 7:54 (Buffy St. Marie)
3. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 6:19 (Smith)

SIDE 2

1. Many Are Called, But Few Get Up 13:42 (Ace/John/Jones/Leonard/Williams)
2. Bananas 11:11 (Jones/Ryan/Williams/John)

THE BAND

Micky Jones--Guitars, Vocals

Deke Leonard--Guitars, Vocals

Terry Williams--Drums, Percussion

Martin Ace--Bass, Vocals

John Cipollina--Guitars, Vocals

Produced by The Man Band
Recorded live at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, 26th May 1975 by Vic Maile with the Manor Mobile.
Mixed at Pye Studios, London by Man and Vic Maile

Front Cover Photography by Keith Morris
Lettering & Logos by Rick Griffin
Inside Photos by Keith Morris & Edmund Shea
Poster photography, Keith Morris
Inside Spread designed by AD (Design Consultants Ltd.)
Stage Lighting by Rick Lefrak, Laughing Whitefish Productions

DEDICATIONS - Special Thanks

Ron Sanchez & Discount Records, San Jose, Phil Charles & KSAN-FM, San Francisco KSJO-FM, San Jose, Greg & Ria Lewerke, Kathy Sherry & Marty Capune, Danny Alvino, Joe Collins (KMET) Los Angeles, Sherry Grafman, KSHE, St. Louis, Bill Graham & Jerry Pompeli (Winterland), San Francisco, Ed Ward & Edmund Shea, & Aquarius Records, Castro Street, San Francisco, Matthew "King" Kaufman & EarthQuake, of Beserkley, The Sausalito Heliport, Michael Oster, Scott Piering, & Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, Pete Frame, Andrew "Jake" Jakeman, Ray Williams, John Curd, Tommy Cooper and The people who always get mentioned (thanks again).
Dedicated to the Memory of Ralph J. Gleason, Tom Donahue an d Peter Ham.

MANAGEMENT Barry Marshall, 177 Upper Street, London N1.

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Commentary

I was reading through the list of dedications, and noticing that just about everybody is from the San Francisco area (even though the album was recorded in England), and was thinking: 'These are all the people they had to go through in order to meet John Cipollina (just kidding guys).

This is a magnificent live album, three lead guitars, a wall of great hard rock, and an intensity (God, I'm starting to use that word too much) which is not for the faint of heart. I once went over to the house of a friend who claimed to be a fan of great guitar music. He played me some Steely Dan and I played this album, and he was very intimidated by the music. This is loud, it's nasty and its full of delicious licks.

It starts off with Deke's "7171-551" from 'Iceberg' which had been expanded from a perky little single to an 11 minute assault on the senses. Next are "Codine" and "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", two old standards that Quicksilver had originally recorded for the 'Revolution' soundtrack album (which was somewhat rare at the time, but was later reissued), Deke's vocals on "Codine" are incredible. For the B-side there are two old classics "Many Are Called" and "Bananas" both turned into extended jams with all three guitars getting a chance to stretch out.

Ted Koehorst's commentary on allegations that Mickey Jones went back and rerecorded much of John Cipollina guitar work (see his liner notes for 'Be Good To Yourself') deserve refutation, but since I really don't know any better, all I can say is that if they are true I prefer to live in an alternative reality where Minni-Vanilli can sing, Michael Jackson is innocent, and Mr. Cipollina's guitar work didn't need any studio tampering, and shame on you Mr. Koehorst for spreading vicious allegations about the non-existence of Santa Clause, etc.

But the real highlight of this album is Deke's longest set of liner notes to date (reproduced in glorious HTML for the first time below). It's a classic essay on the history and habits of Man's extended family, with further notes on the philosophy of car theft, police notes in triplicate, the dangers of Argentine Corned Beef and bolas in general. Last night I met and old record critic friend of mine at a concert and he could still quote large sections of the notes, having last read them some 15 years ago. He also wondered why I couldn't, and all I could say was that this was the first time I had read them while not stoned.

Deke's Liner Notes from the Back of the Poster That Came With the LP

7 X 7 is - U.S. garage singles pt.5

Kings of Oblivion - Gotta Love Me/Only You To Blame/No Way To Be (Dionysus ID-074510)
For the end here's some wild garage rock from Kings of Oblivion, a band from Los Angeles which appears on Dionysus site as "Detroit '68 meets LA '77". Their sound on this 1990 single reminds me of Jeff Dahl or the Lazy Cowgirls. Kings of Oblivion had some success (in Europe mainly), but now they've sank in oblivion.








The Dispossessed - Moon and Midnight/The Thin Men (Di-Di Music DiDi 155, 1988)
The Dispossessed from Connecticut, appeared in the mid-eighties, released a single and an obscure LP, which sounds to my ears like an american version of the uk post-punk groups, and then (after the suicide of their guiar player Jeremy Guenter), they disbanded, to resurface in the early 2000s! These two tracks appeared on a limited edition 7" included with the European release (on Greek label Di-Di Music) of the band's first and only LP "Sister Mary", from 1988.




Lee Joseph - Four By One EP (Mystery Scene ms 004, recorded 1984)
In the summer of 1984 Lee Joseph recorded four tracks in his home, with the help of Rich Coffee (gtr) and Zebra (handclaps). There are three covers (Stay By My Side (Music Machine), The Special Ones (Shames) and Splash One (R.Erickson)) and a Rich Coffee song (Sounds of Color). He mixed them in 1986 and sometime later (I believe circa 1989) they were released by the German label Mystery Scene. The covers are faithfull, but I think the best track is the Rich Coffee one. One last note: on "Spash One", besides the off-key vocals you may notice that it sounds as if it was mixed in the wrong speed.




Lance Kaufman - Peaceful Amazon Village/They Dug Up Elvis (Dionysus- ID074513)
After years as an obscure lounge pianist in his native Cleveland Ohio, humble Lance Kaufman was bonked on the noggin by a fowl ball at an Indians game and became Karla Pundit, musicologist and keyboard wizard extraordinare! For more than a decade he was hearing mysterious voices and a form of exotic music seemingly from another sphere. Lance saluted the exotica era years before it was fashionable to do so with this Dionysus single. Lance was also behind the Farfisa organ on the early very 60s garage inspired records by Yard Trauma, a band who also included the Dionysus Records Empire head-honcho, Lee Joseph. You have to listen to believe it!





Gorehounds - Necrosis/Voodoo Priest (Alien Cactus Records ACT THORN 002)
Well, don't be scared with this one! The Goreounds from Maine were deep in the creepy side of garage. They put out this single in 1986 and an LP (Halloween Everywhere) again on Alien Cactus in 1987. Except from their LP title , their references to the Elevators exceed to the use of an electric jug.










1313 Mockingbird Lane - Hornet's Nest/My Hearse (Is Double Parked) (Scarab S-001)
This is the first single of this "third generation" garage group, that came out in 1989, in their own Scarab label. They play a straight 60s/Chesterfield Kings garage with a lot of energy. They released several singles and LPs and they're still active.










The Cynics - I'm In Pittsburgh And It's Raining/Smoke Rings (Get Hip GH-106)
No need to tell you 'bout the Cynics, except that this single came out from Get Hip as release #2 of the Cynics fanclub in 1990, and of cource the a-side is about their hometown.









Here they are 7 X 7 is - pt.5



Edit: Jordan Kratz founder of the Gorehounds posted a comment, inviting us all to his webside to download for free all The GoreHounds LP , 7", and unreleased stuff.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Jimi Hendrix

Not need to say something about Jimi Hendrix !
His music said it all !!

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Church

(click on cover for tracklist)

cd1.part1 ~ cd1.part2
cd2.part1 ~ cd2.part2

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Jimi Hendrix - 51st Anniversary
(8 CD's Boxset)

(click on covers for tracklists)
(click on covers for tracklists)

Jimi_Hendrix_51st_Anniversary.part1.rar
Jimi_Hendrix_51st_Anniversary.part2.rar
Jimi_Hendrix_51st_Anniversary.part3.rar
Jimi_Hendrix_51st_Anniversary.part4.rar
Jimi_Hendrix_51st_Anniversary.part5.rar
Jimi_Hendrix_51st_Anniversary.part6.rar
Jimi_Hendrix_51st_Anniversary.part7.rar
Jimi_Hendrix_51st_Anniversary.part8.rar
Jimi_Hendrix_51st_Anniversary.part9.rar

New set of Links !

Enjoy !!!