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stilcho
stilcho
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Re: Crime
Mar 04, 2006, 09:20
Crime were part of the first wave of San Francisco punk. There's amazing footage available of them playing a concert at San quentin in full cop uniforms!
stilcho
stilcho
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Re: Crime footage
Mar 04, 2006, 09:23
here 'tis. (part of it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUxJSrlwZTQ&search=crime
achuma
achuma
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Re: 60s/70s HeavyBluesPsychProtoMetalFuzz
Mar 08, 2006, 01:46
Should have also mentioned earlier -
Blue Phantom - Distortions [a bit like Modulo 1000 but not quite as alien]

Pappo's Blues - Volume 3 [Argentina]
Parson Sound - s/t [Sweden]
Pax - Este Disco Debe Ser Tocado Al Maximo De Volumen! [Peru]
Pentagram - First Daze Here [US]
Pink Fairies - Never Never Land; Kings of Oblivion [UK]
Pinnacle - Cyborg Assassin [UK]
Poobah - Let Me In; Steamroller [US]
Pop Masina - Kiselina [Poland?]
Power of Zeus - The Gospel According To Zeus [US]
Procession - Frontiera [Italy]
Pugma-Ho! - s/t [UK]
Queen - s/t; II [UK]
Rag i Ryggen - s/t [Sweden]
Ram Jam - s/t [US]
El Reloj - s/t; Second Album [Argentina]
Road - s/t [UK]
Il Rovesco Della Medaglia - La Bibbia [Italy]
Samuel Prody - s/t [UK]
Robert Savage - The Adventures of Robert Savage Volume 1 [US]
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow [Germany]
Second Life - s/t [Germany]
Seompi - s/t aka AWOL [US]
Sir Lord Baltimore - I know you all know these guys but I just want to take the chance to say, I think if you write off the second album entirely you are missing out! Sure it's different to the debut, and not 100% full of great songs, but I reckon most of it is awesome. I don't come anywhere near to agreeing with Julian on this one.
Shiver - San Francisco's Shiver [US]
Silberbart - 4 Times Sound Razing [Germany]
Skid Row [no, not THAT Skid Row!] - 34 Hours [Ireland]
Slade - Play It Loud; Alive
Slowbone - Live at the Greyhound [UK]
Socrates Drank the Conium - s/t; Taste The Conium; On The Wings [Greece]
Speed Glue & Shinki - Eve; s/t [Japan]
Spermull - s/t [Germany]
Spontaneous Combustion - s/t; Triad [UK]
Stack Waddy - Bugger Off [UK]
Stark Naked - s/t [US]
Steel Mill - Green Eyed God [UK]
Stonehouse - Stonehouse Creek [UK]
Stonewall - Stoner [US]
The Stooges of course...
The Storm - s/t [Spain]
Stray - s/t; Suicide; Saturday Morning Pictures [UK]
Suck - Time To Suck [S. Africa]
Sudden Death - Suddenly [US]
Lord Sutch - And Heavy Friends [UK]
achuma
achuma
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Re: 60s/70s HeavyBluesPsychProtoMetalFuzz
Mar 08, 2006, 02:10
T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland; s/t [UK]
Tapiman - s/t [Spain]
Tarantula - 2 [Spain][haven't heard the other albums]
Tarkus - s/t [Peru][this is some raw & nasty shit!]
Taste - s/t; Live at the Isle of Wight [Ireland]
Tear Gas - s/t [UK]
Thin Lizzy - s/t [ok, only a small number of heavy tracks, but man, are they good!]; Shades of a Blue Orphanage [not much heaviness - great album though]; Vagabonds of the Western World [Ireland]
Third Power - Believe [US]
Third World War - s/t [UK]
Three Man Army - A Third of a Lifetime; Mahesha; Two [UK][the recently released '3' is not nearly as good as any of these, still not bad though]
Thundermug - Strikes [Canada][when is someone gonna reissue this band's stuff? An unfairly ignored band]
Thunderpussy - Documents of Captivity [US]
Thunder and Roses - King of the Black Sunrise [US]
Ticket - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie [New Zealand][first album 'Awake' is great but less hard rock, more psych... beware the cd bootleg which claims to have both albums, as it doesn't actually contain 'Awake' at all, even though it lists the right tracks on the back, and what exactly the first half of the cd is remains a mystery to me]
Tiger B. Smith - Tiger Rock [Germany]
Toad - s/t; Tomorrow Blue; B.U.F.O. [Switzerland]
Totty - s/t [US]
Tractor - s/t [UK]
Trapeze - Medusa [UK]
Truth and Janey - No Rest For The Wicked; Erupts! [US]
UFO - 1; 2; Live [UK]
Unison - s/t [US]
Up - Killer Up! [US]
Uriah Heep - Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble [UK]
Variations - Nador [France][I disagree with Seth Man and wouldn't recommend their second album, 'Take It Or Leave It']
Vavoura Band - Live: The Early Days [Greece]
Virus - Revelation [much more psychedelic/progressive]; Thoughts [this is the heavier one] [Germany]
Vox Dei - La Biblia [Argentina]
Warhorse - s/t [UK][second album 'Red Sea' is patchier, but still has some good stuff]
Warpig - s/t [Canada]
West, Bruce & Laing - s/t; Live 'N' Kickin' [US/UK]
White Lightning - Strikes Twice [US]
White Witch - s/t [US][patchy for sure, but some really good stuff here; haven't heard the second album]
The Who - Live At Leeds [UK]
Wicked Lady - The Axeman Cometh; Psychotic Overkill [UK][again, patchy, but some pretty good stuff to be had]
Wildfire - Smokin' [US]
Wind - Seasons [Germany]
Johnny Winter - Second Winter [US]
Wishbone Ash - s/t [UK]
Yu Grupa - s/t [Yugoslavia?][I'm referring to the '73 self-titled - there's also another self-titled by these guys, which I haven't heard]
Zakkarias - s/t [UK][not really too heavy, but worth checking out]
Zarathustra - s/t [Germany]
Zior - s/t; Every Inch A Man [UK]
Zipper - s/t [UK]
Zolar X - Timeless [US]
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres [US]

Now, I'm not claiming this is a definitive list, just the better stuff from what I've heard, and leaving out a few things that might have been appropriate but are more of a fully-fledged progressive rock thing [ie. there's some great heavy rockin' on the first Gnidrolog album, but by and large it's not a heavy rock album - great though it is!]
Also I don't know if I've gone too broad and maybe a lot of this won't really interest Ben who started off the thread. Anyway, I found it hard to hold back ;-)
krautymckraut
krautymckraut
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Heroin Sludge
Mar 08, 2006, 08:43
Lately, I've been groovin' to some early proto metal with blatant lyrics about shooting up. Not that I'm a big heroin enthusiast, but the shit sounds so much meaner and white trashier with junk lyricism over killer feedback, fuzz and wah wah. Please check out:

Lincoln Street Exit- "Drive It" 1970

Raven- "Back to Ohio Blues" 1975

Bulbous Creation- "You Won't Remember Dying" 1970

These albums are simultaneously hilarious and depressing; two factors, which in my opinion, are the fundamentals of great rock and roll.

*The entirety of the Lincoln Street Exit album strangely reminds me of the later half of the MC5- True Testimonial documentary when everything starts falling apart. Very weird.
Shrimp
Shrimp
1118 posts

Re: 60s/70s HeavyBluesPsychProtoMetalFuzz
Mar 08, 2006, 08:45
many thanks for the broadness of the list that gives me a lot more to explore!
achuma
achuma
503 posts

Re: 60s/70s HeavyBluesPsychProtoMetalFuzz
Mar 10, 2006, 01:08
I hope you don't end up buying anything that you don't like, I don't want to lead anyone up the wrong path! Enjoy!
zphage
zphage
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Re: 60s/70s HeavyBluesPsychProtoMetalFuzz
Mar 22, 2009, 13:24
this is a GREAT list!
Popel Vooje
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Edited May 17, 2017, 14:29
Re: 60s/70s HeavyBluesPsychProtoMetalFuzz Private Pressings
Mar 22, 2009, 16:13
zphage wrote:
this is a GREAT list!


It is indeed. What's more, if you're sufficiently interested in this genre to want to hear some of the more lo-fi examples that didn't get picked up on by any of the majors at the time, I'd have to elaborate on George Brigman's brilliant "Jungle Rot", (already listed, but not described, by achuma) and add "Microminiature Love" by the Michael Yonkers Band.

Both have somewhat of a Blue Cheer/Stooges/Groundhogs vibe - the latter being particularly apparent on the George Brigman album - but were both recorded cheaply and - in the case of "Jungle Rot"- self-released, whilst "Microminiature Love" didn't get an official release until the noughties (on SubPop) despite having been recorded in 1968.

In fact, I think the subterranean territory of home releases that didn't get widely distrubuted until decades later probably deserves a seperate thread, but I'm too busy to start one right now. One day...
Stevo
Stevo
6664 posts

Re: 60s/70s HeavyBluesPsychProtoMetalFuzz
May 17, 2017, 13:59
Sainte Anthony's Fyre
Ice Cross
Buffalo Volcanic rock
Stackwaddy Bugger Off
Edgar Broughton Band keep Them Freaks Rolling
Scorpions Lonesome Crow
Sperrmull
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