Exploring unheralded rock songs from many genres including classic rock, hard rock, psych, garage, metal, proto-punk, punk, post-punk, and the occasional blues tune...
It took the Welsh band Crys five years from their formation to release their first album. This seemed to be a good thing, because the work is rather well done for a first time effort. Check out this hard rock/prog band with the title track off of that first LP.
So for today, how about some British alt stoner psych rock from the early 90's...? Well, here are Thee Hypnotics from their last release in 1994 with this Stooges cover.
While I enjoy most types of music, when done well, I am not particularly fond of folk music. I think there is something about the homogeneous nature of the music that bores me. Maybe I just need to dive deeper into the genre. Anyway, this aversion to folk has steered me clear of many artists primarily known for it.
This is the case with David Bromberg. It just so happened that I heard this song on satellite radio as I was randomly flipping around. This song is definitely not folk, and probably not too indicative of Bromberg's other work. Still, the guitar hook on this song was immediately recognizable as the one that the Beastie Boys' sampled on Johnny Ryall for their seminal Paul's Boutique album. I could listen to that riff all day long. Check it out.
This last weekend, while leafing through a box of mostly beat records that I bought off of someone who was ready to discard them, I found this self-titled album from the band Quill. It looked psychedelic enough, so I didn't immediately put it in the recycled pile along with all of the Barbra Streisand lp's in the same lot.
Once I was able to dig up some information, I found that it is a relatively rare album and that the band was from Boston. The most interesting fact, though, was that they appeared at Woodstock! Unfortunately, for the band, their performance did not make the cut for the movie. After that was determined, the band's record label dropped them. After that, the band soon called it quits. Here is the opening track off of that only album.
In the haze of last week's untimely death of Prince, the world lost another great guitar player. Lonnie Mack was a Memphis guitar player who was able to solo with the best of the best. Check him out here from 1965.
The other night while listening to David Fricke's satellite radio program, I heard some very interesting psych music. As it turned out, this was from a new band. Fricke mentioned that someone described the band to him as a combination of Fairport Convention and Quicksilver Messenger Service. That was okay in Fricke's book(and in mine too).
While digging a little on the internet, I discovered that this new group is a supergroup of sorts with members originally hailing from Espers, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, and Comets on Fire. The humbling thing is that I had never heard of any of those bands. I'll get there someday.
Today, I'm in the mood for some heavy British psych, so I'm featuring the Edgar Broughton Band from their first album. This band would go on to record 8 albums through 1982. They would continue to tour(off and on) through 2010, before seemingly calling it quits for good.
