tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131171282024-03-13T14:47:59.699-05:00CROTCHBATcrotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-8158329638954431712009-11-24T17:27:00.000-06:002009-11-24T17:27:00.170-06:00SRC - Black Sheep (2000)Primordial late 60s Detroit rock from SRC -- at the time thought of as the chief rival of the now much more reverently remembered MC5 -- but still a pile-driving juggernaut of 60s stoner rock! This set collects the best of groups album tracks and singles cut for Capitol Records in 1968 and 1969 -- driving, feedback guitar, heavy drums and organ licks -- which like the MC5 was born of adherence tocrotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-44790940098563093402009-09-15T17:35:00.001-05:002009-10-07T10:46:46.086-05:00Tommy Bolin - Live @ Ebbets Field (1974)Tommy Bolin began playing in bands around Sioux City as a youth before moving to Boulder, Colorado, in his late teens. He had played in a band called American Standard before joining Ethereal Zephyr, a band named after a train that ran between Denver and Chicago. When record companies became interested, the name was shortened to Zephyr. This band included Bolin on guitar, David Givens on bass, crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-84379466663440911962009-07-31T17:19:00.001-05:002009-07-31T17:19:00.357-05:00Bang (1971)"Bang never got big -- although they did share stages with everyone from Alice Cooper to the Allman Brothers to Chuck Berry to Funkadelic to Black Sabbath themselves, apparently had a #1 hit in Hong Kong and at one point owned their own private plane! They released three albums in their career (for a US major label in fact) plus they recorded some singles and made an entire unreleased album as crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-88975193525956180412009-07-29T17:06:00.000-05:002009-07-29T17:06:00.936-05:00Ave De Veludo - Electrico Blues (Brazil 1984)Cleaning out my hard drive this week - here's one that I know absolutely NOTHING about. Sadly, I can't find much on the web on them (at least in a language I can understand). This record delivers what the title promises: Electrico Blues. Please enjoy.Blues Meu Amigocrotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-61879133452083325722009-07-16T17:04:00.000-05:002009-07-16T17:04:00.685-05:00One St. Stephen (1975)"Don L. Patterson was the mastermind behind One St. Stephen. Interestingly, Patterson's original artistic focus wasn't music, rather film. Accordingly, the mid-'70s found him working on a film project tentatively entitled "The Devil's Reservation". As part of the project in 1975 he went into Cincinnati's Owl Studios, writing and recording an album's worth of material (he also handled lead vocals,crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-53862489629996520982009-06-20T10:59:00.000-05:002009-06-20T10:59:00.905-05:00Midnight - Into the Night (1977)"Local Chicago garage hardrock with a Doorsy '69-70 sound despite the release year. Covers all the bases with lots of rocking stuff, some moody introspectives, boogie moves, a doomy Sabbathish attempt etc. Pretty decent for the genre and a cool mid-60s Vox organ sound all through is a plus." (acid archives)"...very rare 70s hard rocker with organ and raunchy guitar moves like a primitive mix of crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-20884270983619312552009-06-19T05:46:00.000-05:002009-06-19T06:35:25.866-05:00Electro Harmonix Work Band - State of the Art Electronic Devices (1977)"In 1977 Electro Harmonix recorded an LP by Mike Matthews and his work band demonstrating the 'state of the art electronic devices'."Independence Day Party, July 4, 1979, U.S. Ambassador’s Residence, Moscow(left to right): Kenney Richardson, Manny Zapata, Charles (Cookie) Cook, Mike Matthews, Willie Magee, Bob Bednarz (standing), Larry De Marco, and Paul Staff."At curtain rise, six musicians are crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-84417429862068535232009-06-15T17:56:00.001-05:002009-06-15T17:56:00.354-05:00American Eagle (1970)Not a lot of info about this one floating around the interwebs, but here are some short bios of 2 former band members:Rob Lowery was lead vocalist for The Galaxies. He joined when he was about 14 and spent 6 years with the group. When he was twenty he went on to join national recording artists, "The Surprise Package" (aka The Viceroys) which was produced by Lee Hazelwood and put out the album crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-7595110948372878642009-06-05T18:04:00.000-05:002009-06-05T18:04:00.276-05:00Friction - '79 Live (Japan 1980)"Friction is a late-'70s/early-'80s Japanese punk band formed by their bassist/singer/frontman ("Reck") who spent the better part of a year in NYC during the No Wave heyday. Like a lot of the better Japanese rock bands past and present, they took something great and tweaked it in another direction that still displays their love of the initial inspiration. There is a stripped down Contortions crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-62198163907413749702009-06-01T17:25:00.001-05:002009-06-01T17:25:00.257-05:00Judas (Philippines 1975)I wish I knew more about this record - what I don't know about Pinoy rock could fill a frigging warehouse. This album, sung in Tagalog, is chock full of fuzz, has a couple of nice blues-rock tracks and even a cover of Great Balls of Fire. Have a listen. And as always, enjoy.Judas - Bukascrotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-27373045113438450772009-05-28T18:50:00.000-05:002009-05-28T18:50:00.118-05:00Selvagens - Brazilian 60's Punk ArtyfactsTeen Trash has a wild collection of garage rock from Brazil up for grabs...(Thanks, PCL LinkDump)crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-77176505355949398962009-05-17T17:49:00.002-05:002009-05-26T14:18:24.041-05:00Mother's Finest (1973)(Thank you Mettle H for the correction...)A post-Sly race- and gender-integrated funk-rock band, Mother's Finest is stylistically somewhere between Rufus and Funkadelic, though they never achieved anywhere near the cultural impact of either. To a certain extent, Mother's Finest fell into the "Apartheid-Oriented Radio" trap, in which any African-American rocker between Jimi Hendrix and Vernon Reidcrotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-9661907751893954232009-05-10T11:34:00.000-05:002009-05-10T11:34:00.681-05:00Rod St. James - Has Anybody Seen the Superstar (1972)"A superb slice of the swinging seventies as seen through the eyes of one contender to the throne... Rod St James. Originally released on the small budget label Paula in 1972, this obscure psych/soul/folk rock album is a superb example of years gone by and lost in aging summer sands with flairs and sunglasses to match. Very little is known about Rod... information is thin on the ground but those crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-54941390391472824212009-05-08T17:31:00.013-05:002009-05-12T15:11:31.827-05:00Mother's Finest (1976)Mother's Finest is a funk rock band founded in Atlanta, Georgia by Joyce Kennedy and Glenn Murdock in the early 1970s. The group charted with the singles "Fire" (#93 Pop Singles), "Baby Love" (#79 Black Singles, #58 Pop Singles), "Don't Wanna Come Back" (#54 Black Singles), "Love Changes" (#26 Black Singles), and "Piece Of The Rock" in the mid to late 1970s.Mother's Finest are notable partly crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-65577834276798008052009-02-09T00:33:00.000-06:002009-02-09T00:33:00.953-06:00Black Nasty - Talking to the People (1973)Black Nasty were a little-known but decent group in the early-'70s Detroit funk scene, following the path of the Parliament/Funkadelic crowd in mixing rock, psychedelic, soul, and funk influences. They recorded a fair album for Stax that was released in 1973, but wasn't a heavy seller. After losing their contract with Stax (which would soon go out of business anyway) in 1975, they changed into crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-28501817214414275922009-02-05T17:25:00.000-06:002009-02-05T17:25:01.036-06:00Various - Cazumbi: African Sixties Garage vol. 1"Warning! This not an Afro-beat or Afro-rock compilation. The music on this record is strictly '60s garage as you might expect it! Dwarf, ghost, soul from another world -- it's the African definition for Cazumbi! You probably always thought such countries, except South Africa, had nothing to contribute to the '60s garage scene. But it seems our little world still has virgin places for the obscurecrotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-42283838375235951842009-02-01T15:20:00.000-06:002009-02-01T15:20:00.450-06:00Various - World in Sound Tracks - Episode 1Sampler compilation of tracks from the WIS label. Contains one exclusive, never-before released track -- a Krautrock version of Peter Thomas' "Orion" by the band Those, recorded in MPS studios in 1971 ("it was originally released on the same as label as Mammut -- and listen to it -- it's a true Kraut Monster"). "This CD from World in Sound celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love, a crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-90839921354162772292009-01-29T19:42:00.001-06:002009-01-29T19:42:00.451-06:00Acid Eater - Virulent Fuzz Punk A.C.I.D. (Japan 2007)Not to be confused with the Christine 23 Onna record of the same name (although both are fronted by Japanoise legend Masonna), this Acid Eater is a blown out blast of ultradistorto organ drenched spaced out primitive garage rock stomp.Imagine the heaviest, most fuzzed out garage rock you've ever heard, now take that and run it through a handful of distortion pedals, a bank of Acid Mothers worthy crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-21815647647602261322009-01-22T10:31:00.006-06:002016-05-11T14:46:28.298-05:00Fresh Start - What America Needs (1974)Sadly, I don't know much about this record on the Dunhill label.crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-74969221147013948822008-11-25T16:45:00.000-06:002008-11-25T16:45:00.397-06:00Hounds - Unleashed (1978)"We're 1980's rock 'n roll," says Hounds leader-founder John Hunter, Chicago native and, like the other band members, a seasoned veteran of Midwestern rock, nearly a genre unto its own these days. "By its very nature," explains Hunter, "rock 'n roll is steeped in rebellion. Hounds' messages are contemporary. They are not just sex & sleeze. They're not just street fighting. There's more crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-78219191316452446892008-11-16T15:53:00.000-06:002008-11-16T15:53:12.021-06:00Smash - Todas Sus Grabaciones (Spain 1969-1978)The complete recordings by this classic Spanish hard psych band including both highly sought after albums "La Glorieta de los Lotos" and "We come to Smash This Time". Heavy rock/pop music with some very nice psychedelic touches, characterized by swathes of wailing guitars. At times the band suddenly go off into totally tripped out acid rock with sitars, backward guitars, phased vocals and all crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-1727632638282816132008-11-13T12:22:00.003-06:002008-11-13T12:26:43.929-06:00Flashing - Jimi Hendrix Plays Curtis Knight Sings (1968)Curtis Knight (b. Curtis McNear, 1945 - 29 November 1999) was an American music artist and band leader who is famously known for his connection to Jimi Hendrix. Knight was an artist in the 1960s Harlem music scene, usually fronting his own band "the Squires". This band gigged in clubs in New York City, and other surrounding areas. It was through Knight that Hendrix got involved with Ed Chalpin, acrotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-3484371841747331982008-10-08T19:04:00.000-05:002008-10-08T19:04:00.981-05:00Neil Merryweather, John Richardson and Boers (1970)Though Merryweather had started to attract something of a following in late 1969, ironically, the group played probably its best-received show on the day it broke up, October 12. On the day in question, Merryweather had travelled down the coast to perform at the Balboa Stadium in San Diego on a bill that also featured Country Joe & The Fish, Poco and Chicago. According to Burt, Merryweather crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-10992561040449881312008-10-07T20:34:00.001-05:002008-10-07T20:34:01.426-05:00Merryweather - Word of Mouth (1968)One of the less known Canadian groups to work on the 1960s US West Coast scene was the short-lived Merryweather, a talented bunch of Ontario musicians, fronted by former Mynah Birds member, bass player Neil Lillie (today better known as Neil Merryweather).Slightly reminiscent of the early Steve Miller Band, Merryweather also shared the same label, Capitol Records, with whom they had signed with crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13117128.post-15869735705361680752008-10-03T18:36:00.000-05:002008-10-03T18:36:00.714-05:00Brave Belt II (1972)Brave Belt was a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba originally consisting of Randy Bachman (guitar/vocals), his former Guess Who bandmate, Chad Allan (lead vocals/keyboards), and Randy's brother Robbie (drums). Shortly after the release of the band's first album, Brave Belt I (Reprise Records, 1971), C.F. "Fred" Turner was added as bassist for the supporting concerts.[1]The band made the crotchbathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333720784297242171noreply@blogger.com2