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13 posts tagged garage rock
Quest For Fire - Set Out Alone
I got into Quest For Fire’s 2010 album while I was gone. It felt like a natural progression from their first album, which I liked a lot, and I love the cover art. A lot of modern bands seem to rock this type of bottom-heavy distortion, and I really need to dig around the internet and figure out what their set-up is. Hopefully because they’re a Canadian band, their equipment will be easy to track down.
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The Other Half - Feathered Fish
The Other Half were a 60s garage rock band with a tinge of psychedelic influence. Their guitarist, Randy Holden, was a self-described guitar god (a few of his later solo albums would be named Guitar God some-thing-or-other) and it’s a pretty true claim. The guitar riffing on the band’s only album is a lot of fun, but the recording quality isn’t the greatest.
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The Deep - It's All A Part Of Me
Record collectors like to claim that The Deep released the very first psychedelic rock album. This 1966 record, Psychedelic Moods, A Mind Expanding Phenomena, might be the first record to use the word ‘psychedelic’ in its title, which seems like a more realistic claim. It’s always hard to tell with this kind of thing. To the band’s credit, this record is pretty trippy, American, scuzzy rock and roll that’s definitely worth a listen if you’re into early mod-era rock.
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Morgen - Welcome To The Void
Morgen was a short-lived psychedelic rock band out of Long Island led by Steven Morgen during the late 60s. This self-titled 1969 record is all they managed to put out, but it’s a great relic of fuzzy psychedelia. The over-driven guitar on this album is distorted to basically absurd levels, which is exactly how I like it and how I do the effects on my own guitar. These guys are definitely worth a listen if you like your rock and roll rough around the edges. Boring as hell album art though.
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McDonald & Sherby - Sharks Around Blood
I got super sick last week, and apparently that sucked the wind out of my blogging sails. The good news is I found a list of albums put out by a record company called Radioactive Records, which reissued a bunch of my all-time favourites, so it’s going to be fun to look through their catalogue.
First up from the company is a psychedelic rock duo called McDonald & Sherby and their 1969 1974 record, Catharsis. I’m pretty sure if I grew up during that time period, I would look exactly like the guy on the left. That’s kind of a scary thought, but this record is full of some great, bluesy psychedelia.
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Jagwar Pirates - Surf In Indre Et Loire
Jagwar Pirates are a French post-surf(?)-rock band whose new album is being send around to music blogs by their freshly formed label, Cocktail Pueblo. The record has some great guitar tone and hypnotic grooves. I can’t wait to see what this band sounds like on their follow-up album; hopefully just a little looser. Unfortunately no good images of the cover art exist yet…
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Stack - Poison Ivy
While I’m ranting about people forgetting formative heavy metal bands, I might as well post some Stack.
Stack was a Californian psychedelic group that released this blistering 1969 album. They have a uniquely fuzzy guitar tone thanks to custom made amps from a small company called Quilter. Stack’s heavy psychedelic sound won them touring spots alongside legends like Frank Zappa and Buffalo Springfield.
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Frijid Pink - Drivin' Blues
Frijid Pink was a short-lived American blues band that scored a minor hit in 1970 doing a psychedelic cover of House of the Rising Sun. Their self-titled debut had a bunch of other good material, like this, Drivin’ Blues, so it’s sad they weren’t able to maintain their commercial momentum.
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The Outsiders - Daddy Died On Saturday
The Outsiders were a Dutch psychedelic rock band during the 1960s. They’re a lot less bluesy than what I usually post here, but I’m in love with their sound. The end of this song, Daddy Died On Saturday, lays in some perfect harmonica. The internet claims they were one of the biggest bands in the 60s Netherlands, but that’s probably worth taking with a grain of salt. I hope it’s true.
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Velvett Fogg - Yellow Cave Woman
I’m not too happy with the black levels on this cover, but I couldn’t find anything I like better as a source image.
Velvett Fogg was the band that Tony Iommi escaped from to strike it rich in Black Sabbath. They released this single record in 1969, after Iommi had been replaced. Their label had told them to cultivate a shocking image, but didn’t really help the band figure out just how far to take that so they ended up with this weirdness. The blue moustache on the guy standing in the middle is pretty sweet, though.
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