The Day After The Sabbath 59 Too Much Of Nuthin
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TDATS 59 is another various artist collection. We begin with Chicagos Winterhawk, a band I found during my southern rock searches and they kick start the comp in full-throttle metal fashion. This is one of their earliest tracks taken from the demo collection "There and Back Again". Next up we have two tracks from "Rog & Pip", a duo that evolved from Coventry, UKs 60s beat group The Sorrows. They only made this single but both sides show an aptitude for awesome hard rock so its a shame there was no more. There is very little information to be found on Octopus, they recorded one album of melodic but somehow heavy pop/psych in 1971, I find this track Restless Night has a very addictive quality and would be perfect cover material for the stoner doom scenes new darlings, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats!
The UKs Home produced 3 albums of fairly light prog in the early 70s, the third of which includes this track The Old Man Dying with a great juxtaposition between sweet emotive acoustics and heavy riffing. They were also a springboard for AC/DCs Cliff Williams and Wishbone Ashs Laurie Wisefield no less. Fitchburg, MAs "Pugsley Munion" created a single album in 1969 and they did a great job of mixing garage psych, blues and hard rock. "Take My Soul" has an addictive groove. I have used Green Bullfrog once before, way back in the midst of time, but I had to stick this one in, some how not really catching on to it a couple of years ago, the track here is a hell for leather jam that actually manages to make the most of the not inconsiderable talent that got together for one day only to record this jam session album, including Procol Harums Matthew Fisher, Albert Lee, Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Paice.
We head into proto-NWOBH territory with the UKs Warlord, they had a posthumous 2002 release of material that was reputedly recorded around 1975 and if so, it does show in places a kind of more modern metal sound. Newport, Wales Blonde On Blonde are up next, I used the previously on the Welsh Vol56, amongst their proggy psych a few fine hard riffs emerged as in the quirky "Happy Families". London, UKs Strider made a couple of hard rock albums in the mid-70s and mastered a brash confident piano-laden sound, if not particularly original. "Searching The Clouds" is the heaviest cut from their 2nd album, 1974s Misunderstood. Atlantas Law evolved into a tight funk-rock unit through the 70s but their early material, which has been posthumously collected on the "Law - First Session" album, was pure driven hard rock, exemplified here by 1972s motoring "Aint Been Here In A Long Time".
Sacramentos Joshua reputedly only pressed 50 copies of their subtly-heavy west coast style psych album and the track Open Your Mind has a satisfyingly deep bass riff. Next up is LAs Goodthunder, I used them previously on vol55 and think the album is good enough to warrant one more track, this time the short and grooving Sentries which again is based upon a rock solid bass groove. This installment ends with a track taken from the Rockadrome re-issue of Ultra, reputedly a Texan band headed by Homers guitarist Galen Niles, who dealt in some blistering late 70s twin-guitar hard rock, definitely one for Thin Lizzy fans....
Track List:
01. Winterhawk - Too Much of Nothin (1978)
02. Rog & Pip - War Lord / From A Window (1971)
03. Octopus - Restless Night (1970)
04. Home - The Old Man Dying (1973)
05. Pugsley Munion - Take My Soul (1969)
06. Green Bullfrog - Bullfrog (1970)
07. Warlord - Face Of The Sun (1975)
08. Blonde On Blonde - Happy Families (1971)
09. Strider - Searching The Clouds (1974)
10. Law - Aint Been Here In A Long Time (1972)
11. Joshua - Open Your Mind (1969)
12. Goodthunder - Sentries (1972)
13. Ultra - Battery (1977)
Thanks for listening! Rich
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