The Day After The Sabbath 66 Musics Gotta Stay
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TDATS 66 (on the 6th...) is a good old un-themed selection of the best stuff I have come across recently. As it turns out, all from the classic years 1969 to 1975 and all US or UK artists.
We kick off with Texass doomy Seompi whos collected tapes were retrospectively released in 1999 by the Gear Fab label, and then on vinyl by Akarma. Missouris Joe Pritchard pressed only 300 copies of his album in 1974, which has since been re-issued by Radioactive. Its a real curio this one, each track has its own individual flavour and sound, from 12-bar blues to folk to Jazz and then up-beat rockers like "Reason To Be". Archibald was Scottish artist Archie Legget, he recorded in France where he made two great glam-stomping singles. Horse were a very short-lived act that produced one great hard rock album in 1970, they featured members of such excellent bands as Andromeda (guitarist Rod Roach), Atomic Rooster (drummer Ric Parnell) and Saturnalia (Rod Roach and vocalist Adrian Hawkins).
Bluefield, West Virginias Sweet Toothe made one private-pressing in 1975 called Testing. It has some excellent fuzzy hard rock and theres a very informative review here. San Franciscan Peter Kaukonen is the brother of Jorma Kaukonen, guitarist for various acts such as Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and Hot Tuna. Peter himself was bassist in Jefferson Starship in 1974, and in 1972 he made a solo album called Black Kangaroo which this fine Hendrixian cut, Dynamo Snackbar is taken from.
Long Island NYs The Illusion were a jouneyman heavy psych band who made some good stuff across three albums between 1969 and 1970 but achieved little noteriety for their efforts. The sound was equal parts psych and proto-hard rock and Did You See Her Eyes? shows the transition well. After Splitting, members went to various acts such as Network, Wiggy Bits, Barnaby Bye and Aviator. Youngstown Ohios Joy made a single album called Thunderfoot in 1972 that had some good southern-style hard rock, embellished with a few prog turns that raise it above the standard fair, good vocalist too, although Hasufel is an instrumental. Expect to hear some more from this album later...
Brooklyns Majic Ship offer us some fine blusey fuzz from their rare s/t 1969 album and the UKs Hackensack are up next, they featured guitarist Ray Majors who was in a few other notable bands including "Mott" (post-Hoople), and Opal Butterfly (along with a very young Lemmy). They also had singer Nicky Moore who went on to Tiger, then Samson, to replace Bruce Dickinson after he left for Iron Maiden. Oregons Stepson come in next with Suffer, I really like the slow-grinding heaviness of this, and it picks up for a wicked funky bridge too. There is a great Stepson interview here at Psychedelic Baby webzine. Floridas Tin House had two great guitarists, as you can tell from the cool harmonies in Silver Star. One of them, the excellently-named Floyd Radford, also played on the 1971 Edgar Winters White Trash album along with Rick Derringer. There is a interview with Tin House drummer Mike Logan here at Psychedelic Bay webzine.
This instalment ends on two singles from bands that I have found little info on so far, though I think they are both British. Hunter (formed of D. Hunter & J. Spear) made a fun brass-reinforced single in 1970 and Taiconderogas track is especially excellent, that stabbing fuzz guitar is unforgettable and hints at great un-tapped potential...
Track List:
01. Seompi - Almost in the Whole (1970)
from album AWOL
02. Joe Prichard & Gibraltar - Reason To Be (1974)
from album Joe Prichard & Gibraltar
03. Archibald - Passing Thoughts (1969)
single
04. Horse - See The People Creeping Round (1970)
from album horse
05. Sweet Toothe - Musics Gotta Stay (1975)
from album testing
06. Peter Kaukonen - Dynamo Snackbar (1972)
from album black kangaroo
07. The Illusion - Did You See Her Eyes? (1969)
from album the illusion
08. Joy - Hasufel (1972)
from album thunderfoot
09. Majic Ship - Too Much (1969)
from album majic ship
10. Hackensack - River Boat (1974)
from album up the hard way
11. Stepson - Suffer (1974)
from album stepson
12. Tin House - Silver Star (1971)
from album tin house
13. Hunter - Some Time For Thinking (1970)
single
14. Taiconderoga - Speakin My Mind (1969)
single
Thanks for listening! Rich
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