VACATION, ALL I EVER WANTED!

OK I'm taking off tomorrow for parts unknown, no posts for the next two weeks at least hehe!

SEE YOU LATER

Agamemnon - Part I & II (1981)

I originally posted this way back in December 2005, but I have since purchased the CD, so this is a fresh rip @ 320 - I think the other one was only 160, so this is well worth redownloading if you already have it. Anyway, this one-shot release from Swiss group Agamemnon tells the story of it's namesake in two long suites. Nothing spectacular probably, but I really like to listen to this, and can't help recalling Atom Heart Mother-era Pink Floyd when I do.

Track Listing

1. Agamemnon's Youth - Agamemnon, King of Mykene
2. Agamemnon at Troja - Agamemnons Death

Musicians

Urs Ritter / drums
Erich Kuster / vocals, guitars, organ
Walter Rothmund / bass, keyboards
Werner Kuster / piano, keyboards, guitars, flute

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Murphy Blend - First Loss (1970)

Only album from German group Murphy Blend is a mostly keyboard based heavy duty prog workout! The songs are melodic, classically influenced hard rock - plenty of chunky organ riffs, and some nice guitar playing. The guys in the rhythm section are no slouches either. A great example of German heavy progressive music. Note: the last track is a joke - it's really that short.

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Ginhouse - Ginhouse (1971)

Ginhouse was a hard rock trio from Newcastle England whose only album is an obscure bit of great early 70's British rock. A unique sound, proggy in a way - hard to tell what their influences might have been. Good songs, great period vocals, well played, with a real interesting take on the Beatles' "And I love Her". Standout track would be the last one, "Sun In A Bottle".

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Morpheus - For A Second (2002)

I posted German band Morpheus' album "Rabenteur" (1976) back in January of 2006, it's a great album of proggy, jazzy instrumental music. This is their reunion album from 2002 - it's way more laid back than their 70's album, but Morpheus is still there! Plenty of great jazzy saxophone bits and some sweet guitar. Very nice.

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Novalis - Banished Bridge (1973)

This is the first album from probably the best symphonic prog band to come out of Germany. Very little guitar on this - not the case with their later recordings. This is energetic yet melancholic, haunting, dramatic, maybe even pompous at times. A lot of reviewers complain about the vocalist and the lyrics, but the singers voice seems perfectly suited to the music, and the lyrics - so the writer didn't speak English so well. Easy enough to ignore the mistakes in grammar, isn't it? It's the music that carries the day anyway, especially the 17 minute title track. Symphonic prog at it's best, as far as I'm concerned.

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Propeller - Let Us Live Together (1973)

"A one-off "have fun" project led by Achim Reichel. In 1972 he teamed up with some old friends from Rattles (the renowned beat-group of which he was a member from 1961 to 1968). Together they made an album of heavy boogie and glitter rock. Let Us Live Together featured ten jolly rockin' tracks and was quite well received by the German press. After this, Reichel soon returned to his much more experimental solo projects, such as A.R. & Machines. On the other hand, Hildebrandt and Tarrach formed Randy Pie & Family with Bernd Schulz and Klaus-Georg Meyer (two other former Rattles-members)." My rip @high VBR w/scans. (Cosmic Dreams At Play)

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Andwella's Dream - Love And Poetry (1969)

Opinions on this debut album from Northern Ireland's Andwella's Dream range from "one of the best British psychedelic albums of the 1960s" to "an eclectic but unmemorable affair", but it seems most reviewers consider this to be Andwella's masterpiece, and eclectic it is. Hard psychedelic rock with heapings of acid guitar, naive druggy experimentation, studio effects, contemporary pop/psych, orchestral backings, unusual percussion, bamboo flutes - it's a pretty cool album with something for everybody it seems.

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Second Hand - Reality (1968)

"The first album by this confused bunch of excellent musicians still holds its ground after 38 years. Its unusual mixture of poetic psych with Hendrixy or Arthur Brownish heavy episodes and progressive (in 1968!) structures is inventive and only slightly flawed by not always strong vocals. Lovely arrangements and above average compositions make this recommended. Highlights: the opening cut A Fairy Tale (great mellotron) and the trippy title track. Don't let the cover art fool you: it's meant to look "second hand". (Tapestry of Delights)

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Keith Cross & Peter Ross - Bored Civilians (1972)

Yes this is Keith Cross the guitar wizard from T2, the music though is nothing like T2. Not really sure who Pete Ross was, despite my best googling. This is melodic, mellow folk-rock, similar maybe in a way to Matthews Southern Comfort, though not so country and way cooler. Some members of Brinsley Schwarz are on hand as well as a member of Caravan. Low key and fantastic, especially the cover of Fotheringay's "Peace In The End"!

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OK that's it then - see you when I get back. Hope you all are enjoying yourselves too!!

Hi everybody - thanks for tuning in!

Vinegar Joe - Golders Green Hippodrome, London 1972

This bootleg is kinda short, only six songs, and they are mostly from the "Six Star General" album. Taken from a rare 1973 BBC Transcription Service radio library LP which was broadcast on a Dutch radio station in 1978. The sound is great, the performance is terrific.

Setlist:

1 - Let Me Down Easy
2 - Food for Thought
3 - Talkin'About My Baby
4 - Introduction
5 - Giving Yourself Away
6 - Introduction
7 - Black Smoke From The Calumet
8 - Introduction
9 - Proud To Be A Honky Woman

Lineup:

Elkie Brooks - vocals
Robert Palmer - guitar, vocals
Pete Gage - guitar
Mike Deacon - keyboards
Steve York - bass
Pete Gavin - drums

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Twenty Sixty Six & Then - Reflections

When Twenty Sixty Six & Then started, they were veritably a supergroup who didn't yet know it! Their lead singer Geff Harrison had decided to stay in Germany after leaving an early incarnation of Beggar's Opera (he also worked with I Drive), he and guitarist Gagey Mrozeck went on to Kin Ping Meh, Konstantin Bommarius went to Abacus and then Karthago, Veit Marvos went to Emergency, Dieter Bauer joined Aera, and Steve Robinson later joined forces with Michael Bundt and others. During their brief year or so existence, Twenty Sixty Six & Then made one of the most touted of heavy psychedelic Krautrock albums - "Reflections On The Future" (1971) took Krautrock stylisms and hard-rock, added some Zappa touches, riffing aggression of the heavy Bacillus-label bands, and even some off-the-wall electronics. The "Reflections On The Past" release features other studio sessions featuring longer or radically different versions of tracks from the album, along with other unreleased works. "Reflections" compiles the best of their oeuvre onto one disc. (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

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Dancer - Tales Of The Riverbank (1972)

A true lost gem of early 70's progressive rock! This band from the Isle of Wight broke up right after recording this, so the album was never released. Featuring ex-members of Shide & Acorn and production by T.S. McPhee - that's definitely our man from the Groundhogs on the guitar solo at the end of the title track. This is really really good - great vocals, beautifully written songs - ok well a few of them are so-so - production is top-notch as is the musicianship. The 11 minute title track is a full on prog epic that by itself is worth the download!

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Andy Fraser Band - Andy Fraser Band (1975)

Andy Fraser was, of course, the bass playing wunderkind from the first version of Free, that broke up in 1971. In addition to his fluid, looping basslines, Fraser also contributed to some of the songwriting for a lot of Free's classic songs. Well here he is in his first solo album, after less-than-successful stints with Sharks and Frankie Miller. And a good job too! Helped by Kim Turner (drums) and Nick Judd (keyboards), some of these tracks sound very similar to Free, as Fraser's voice is similar to Paul Rodgers, and Fraser wrote the tunes. This is some good, soulful, R & B type rock, only lacking Paul Kossoff's wailing guitar for some of the tracks to sound like a latter day version of Free. "Ain't Gonna Worry" is a real standout.

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Siddhartha - Weltschmerz (1975)

"From the Stuttgart region, Siddhartha's origins go back to 1971, as a few student friends hatched the idea of creating a blend of psychedelic and art-rock music. In 1973 they became Siddhartha (taking their name from a Hermann Hesse novel) as a part time band whilst continuing studies at university. Siddhartha had an unusual style, with strong nods in a Pink Floyd cosmic direction, yet featuring violin, almost punky song writing along with symphonic and folky instrumental touches, they had a style of their own, but it wasn't easy to describe! Try as they did, they couldn't find a record company interested in their odd music, and thus they issued "Weltschmerz" as a 400 copy pressing. The band continued until late 1977, but never got to release any other music." (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

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Haze - Hazecolor-Dia (1971)

The only album from German band Haze is a freaky, heavy, complex slice of bluesy/psychedelic rock, progressive only in the sense that Captain Beefheart might be called progressive. Maybe just freak-rock is a good category for this! Instrumentally great with some brilliant guitar playing and an out of control vocalist who sings at the top of his lungs, this has some bits that will make you sit up and take notice! If you're already sitting up, I don't know what would happen - so be careful. This is a very impressive CD, great stuff.

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OK then - see ya!

Hello ladies and germs - posting a little early this week. Some good stuff, I hope everybody finds something! As always, comments appreciated.

Ashra - The Making Of

This is so good that I wanted to buy it, because I only have it @ 192 with a smallish front cover - then I found it was out of print and the only copy I could find was 85 USD! Well, then I figured that 192 is good enough! This is a 3 disc set of material recorded live in the studio during the sessions for Ashra's "Correlations" album in 1978. The tracks, though, sound nothing like the songs on that album. This isn't the slick Ashra, this stuff sounds more like the old Ash Ra Tempel. This is three discs worth of 3 guys putting it out there like maniacs. The first track, "Paradise Express", is 46 minutes long! Man they musta been beat after that, especially the drummer. A real treat for all fans of 70's synth/guitar. A big download, almost 300 megs, but well worth it!!

Manuel Göttsching - guitar, synthesizer, sequencer
Lutz Ulbrich - guitar, synthesizer, piano, mellotron
Harald Grosskopf - drums, percussion, synthesizer

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Demon Thor - Written In The Sky (1973)

Demon Thor was an Anglo/Swiss outfit, with Geoff Harrison from Twenty Sixty Six & Then doing the male vocals. I've never heard their other release but on this album anyway they seem to have a split personality. The title track, one half of the original album, is an all-out, heavy, keyboard-based prog workout. The rest of the album is also very tasty, but it is more in the mainstream, being blues-based and with R & B leanings, especially on the vocals. Very good though, nonetheless! My rip @ highVBR.

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Indigo - A Collection Of Tales...From Past To Present

This Indigo is a different band than the one I posted a month or so ago. This is keyboard player and songwriter Gerald Krampl, formerly of the great Austrian progressive rock group Kyrie Eleison. A compilation of material released and not released from 1983 to 1992, mainly fantasy-type stories, sung in English with a definite German accent. This will go down well with fans of progressive rock groups like Genesis, Yes, Marillion, etc. And Kyrie Eleison of course!

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If - If3 (1971)

Third album from this huge British jazz-rock outfit. I mean huge in that there were a lot of members - seven on this album! They were kinda popular in Europe but despite repeated touring in the US, they never made much of an impact here. This is great improv oriented, jazzy, laid back stuff, very appealing, still sounding very fresh 30-something years later. They should have been much more popular than they were, but that's show biz I guess.

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Bedemon - Invocation To Doom

This is a bootleg, a lot of the material was released legitimately later on "Child Of Darkness". These are tracks randomly recorded between 1972 and 1975. I'm not sure if Bedemon was an actual working band or not, but it was a probably changing group of players recording the songs of Randy Palmer, from a Maryland band called Pentagram. The front cover will give you a clue of what we're up against here! This is some heavy, heavy stuff, dealing with Death, Drugs, Satanism, etc. Amazingly strong guitar playing and songwriting from Mr. Palmer. If you like early Black Sabbath, you will probably wet your pants when you hear this!

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Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass (1973)

Ok now we need to calm down a little, and this is the perfect album to do it with. German band Yatha Sidhra had only this one album, and it's very very relaxing. Like the title says, it's basically a 40 minute long meditation, using moog, keyboards, guitar, flute, vibes, and of course bass and drums. Ethnic, jazzy, pure cosmic Krautrock, almost magical! Two of the players, brothers Fichter, went on to have a band called Dreamworld - if anybody has that to upload that would be terrific, I'd love to hear it.

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Missus Beastly - Nara Asst Incense (1970)

The story of Missus Beastly is mighty confusing. There might have even been two bands using the name. This is supposedly the same as their first, self-titled album - it was bootlegged by a former manager and released with a different cover and track order. Or something. Whatever, this is early underground German rock at it's best with some crazed guitar, wild organ, lots of flute - sometimes jazzy, sometimes bluesy but jammy and psychedelic as hell! Some members were also in Xhol and Embryo, and the sound is like a maybe more psychedelic Out of Focus. A must-hear for anyone interested in Krautrock.

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One - Come (1972)

Not to be confused with the British band One, this here is a bunch of hippies from Marin County, California. Originally released on the Jefferson Airplane's Grunt label, there is not much information on them, they don't seem to have played much at the San Francisco venues of the time. Anyway, this is some sweet, gentle hippie music, blending jazz, Eastern, and renaissance music.

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Right, then - see ya!

OK boys and girls - here we have this week's offerings:

Kraan - Nachtmusik im WDR 11-16-74

Real good sounding FM broadcast of Kraan live in the "big ballroom" of WDR in Cologne.

01 - Kraan Arabia 11:45
02 - Andy Nogger 9:48
03 - Interview 3:11
04 - Nam Nam 18:48
05 - Sarah's Ritt Durch Den Schwarzwald 4:48

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Hoelderlin - Burg Herzberg Festival 7-21-06

Very good sounding audience recording of Hoelderlin at an open-air festival in Breitenbach, Germany. The artwork has no info except the venue, the date, and a track list. But whatever, this is some real pretty stuff, mostly material from their 70's albums, with a great violin player, whoever he is.

01 - Intro
02 - Schwebebahn
03 - Waren Wir
04 - Rare Bird
05 - Streaming
06 - Nuernberg
07 - Come To Me
08 - Phasing
09 - Sun Rays
10 - You

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Country Joe and The Fish & Friends - Live! Fillmore West 1969

Fantastic live show, revealing a jammy side of the band not seen or rather not heard on their regular releases. This is also the show where Led Zeppelin made their American debut - musta been quite a night. Of course it doesn't hurt that Country Joe & The Fish's 'friends' included Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Steve Miller, Jorma Kaukkonen and Jack Casady. Highlight is the 38 minute "Donovan's Reef Jam". My rip @ highVBR w/scans.

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Cybotron - Colossus (1979)

Australia's answer to Tangerine Dream? That's what one reviewer says, and it may be true, I don't know. This is synthesizer-based space rock alright, with some solid drumming and one of the synth players occasionally playing a 'processed saxophone'. A lot crunchier and heavier than music of this sort usually gets, based on my limited experience. Very solid all around.

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Pirana - Pirana II (1972)

Another band from Australia! Pirana's second album is an excellent slab of progressive rock, with a lot of the material and the guitarist's playing clearly influenced by early Santana. Lots of great fuzz guitar and juicy Hammond organ. A solid rhythm section and some great songwriting all make for a terrific listen. My rip @highVBR w/scans.

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Siloah - Säureadler (1970)

"Siloah came from Munich and were the brainchild of one Thom Atgauer. They made two extremely rare private pressings, regarded as among the most frenzied on the German underground scene. Some dealers have described their first album Säureadler (1970, the title means 'acid eagle') as 'being even wilder than Kalacakra', and it isn't difficult to agree with this after listening to the six tracks. This is an acoustic ethno-psychedelic head trip. Guests play drums, flute and guitar on certain tracks. Apart from the short introduction and ending, the album had "Aluminium Wind" (18:00). There are some rumours that members of Amon Düül were involved in these recordings." Two bonus tracks on this. (Cosmic Dreams At Play)

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OK see you next week!

FROM THE ARCHIVES!
Rescuing from obscurity some great krautrock that is buried way way back in the archives

Tortilla Flat - Fur Ein 3/4 Stündchen (1975)

I got this off cyberspace a while back, and it's a vinyl rip, as this has never been reissued. German band Tortilla Flat's only album is an instrumental exercise in superb jazz/rock composition combined with tight rhythms and driving rock guitar. Tortilla Flat were a six-piece with flute, electric and acoustic guitar, bass/fuzz bass, drums, percussion, and electric piano. The primary lead instrument here is the flute, with plenty of room given to the Rhodes piano and biting fuzz guitar, while the melodies are bouncy and playful. The seven tracks feature plenty of room for improvisational jamming over complex rhythms while the compositions are memorable and, at times, beautiful.

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Amon Düül II - Yeti (1970)

"Yeti" was Amon Düül II's second album and is among their best. This is Krautrock in all it's immense, epic, primal, psychedelic glory. Originally released as two LP's, this features side-long suites and long improvisations marked by a dense, thick sound with inventive instrumental interplay, massive guitar riffs, herculean bass lines and smoldering vocals, male and female. At first listen some of the long improvisations at the end may seem a little too long, but they grow on you.

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Krokodil - Solo Düde Dürst (1971)

This isn't really a Krokodil album, I guess the label used the name as a selling point. What it is, is a little-known solo project by Krokodil's drummer, Düde Dürst, joined by Krokodil's bass player and others. It's a remarkable drum-based opus, embellished by a wide variety of other instruments, with rock and fusion elements, featuring just two lengthy LP side-long instrumental suites. Highly creative and unique, I like this a lot. My rip @320.

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Brave New World - Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley (1972)

This little-known gem of Krautrock is a one-shot deal by a group of musicians from Hamburg. Not all of them were German, there is one guy named O'Brien. Largely instrumental, the music has an other-worldly feel to it, and after a couple of atmospheric pieces it really picks up steam. Highlight is the 19 minute
"The End", which is dramatic and ambitious, with some of the coolest chord sequences ever. The piece combines so many aspects - drone jamming, male choirs, saxophone solos, tripped-out effects - that every listen is a new experience. An essential album for the krautrock fan. As it says in the liner notes, "Dig that over-amplified stylophone"!

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Nine Days' Wonder - Nine Days' Wonder (1970)

From the extreme end of the Krautrock spectrum, this is an essential album, though it may not be an easy listen for some. Obviously influenced by Frank Zappa, maybe King Crimson and others, the first release from these guys is marked by excellent musicianship, long free-jazz type passages, sudden tempo changes and complex time signatures.

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Golem - Orion Awakes (1973)

All indications are that Golem's "Orion Awakes" is considered an obscure classic of psychedelia from the German underground scene of the early seventies. Well I don't really know what to make of that. If I even had one microgram of a mind-altering substance in my body, I would be afraid to listen to this thing!. There are no long drawn-out spacy instrumental jams, no songs about love and peace, the emphasis is on trance-inducing, hammering, pulsing, pounding grooves. This is some real wild stuff and deserves a listen. Interestingly, this was produced by one Genesis P Orridge, later of Throbbing Gristle.

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Gäa - Alraunes Alptraum (1973)

Gäa was a suitably cosmic band of German deep-space voyagers who released one brilliant album (Auf Der Bahn Zum Uranus - On The Road To Uranus) to absolutely no acclaim, then broke up. "Alraunes Alptraum" (Mandrake's Nightmare) is a collection of unreleased material that is just as good I think as the stuff on their regular release. Gäa was the real deal, the real Krautrock deal. Enigmatic lyrics sung in German, spacy jams, quiet passages, crescendoes, climaxes, amazing instrumental interplay. If you are remotely interested in Krautrock, you should check this one out.

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Message - From Books And Dreams (1973)

OK some Krautrock! Message was an oddity in the German underground scene in that the band's roots were British. This was the band's follow-up to their excellent debut, "The Dawn Anew Is Coming", and combines a heavy British progressive style with the best of krautrock innovation. I hadn't listened to this for over a year probably until the other day, and I was kinda shocked how much I liked it! This is a real strong album, very energetic.

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Necronomicon - Tips Zum Selbstmord (1972)

More Krautrock! If the band's name doesn't give you a clue, the title translates to something like "How To Commit Suicide" I think, so you have some idea of what we're dealing with here. This is progressive rock that is raw, dark and sinister sounding. There are pleasant, melodic, acoustic bits rubbing shoulders with thundering, aggressive dark rock with some choirs chiming in here and there, all to great effect. Not for everybody, but worth checking out if you are interested in vintage progressive rock. Includes bonus tracks.

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Hairy Chapter - Eyes / Can't Get Through (1970-1971)

"Eyes" from 1970 and "Can't Get Through" from 1971 comprise Hairy Chapter's total recorded output, and both albums are on this disc. "Eyes" is competent psychedelic rock, but "Can't Get Through" recorded a year later with producer Dieter Dierks (later to find fame with The Scorpions) is possibly the best psychedelic album to come out of the early 70's German underground scene. If loud, endless, feedback-drenched guitar solos accompanied by lyrics sung in broken English ("Reality has got to die" according to singer Harry Unte) sounds like something you might be interested in, you need to hear this triumph of uninhibited guitar debauchery by a long-forgotten German band. Guitarist Harry Titlbach was a Teutonic Guitar God whose likes have not been seen since. As Dag Erik Asbjornsen said in his book "Cosmic Dreams at Play", Can't Get Through is "one of those screaming diz, dumbo IQ-reducing monsters that some people can never get enough of."

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All these great albums were posted over a year ago! There's plenty more where these came from, back in the archives, you just gotta look!!!

OK! First off, a great big thank you to all who took the time to leave a comment last week. It really was something, quite a response. I'm sorry that I let them build up to the point that I couldn't answer each comment individually, but please know that I'm grateful - not dead! LOL! Well here we go.

Amon Düül II - Live Club Barmen 4-19-03

This is an excellent stereo audience recording of Amon Düül II playing in a small club in Wuppertal, Germany. Can these 'old farts' still rock it? Damn right they can - this thing is great. Mostly original members doing versions of some of their best material, a lot of younger bands would be jealous, if only they had a clue. They start off with an awesome take on one of my favorite tunes, "Eye-Shaking King", and there's no let-up til the end of the second disc. Every krautrock fan needs this. I'm not kidding - this is hot.

CD1
1.eye-shaking king
2.apocalyptic bore
3.dry your ears
4.wolf city / cerberus
5.flower of the orient
6.deutsch-nepal
7.speed inside my shoes
8.all the years round
9.kanaan
10.improvisation

CD2
1.surrounded by the stars
2.green-bubble raincoated man
3.improvisation
4.archangels thunderbird
5.renate's ostergruss

Renate Knaup
Peter Leopold
Chris Karrer
John Weinzierl
Lothar Meid
Jan Kahlert

Crabby Appleton - Crabby Appleton (1970)

Great album of early 70's rock, a little on the power-pop side, but the band could rock pretty hard too. Front man and vocalist Michael Fennelly, who wrote all the songs on this debut album, is backed by a bunch of talented musicians, whose instrumental interplay can only be described as tight. Some songs are punchy and forceful melodic hard rock, some are delicate and plaintive. Some have a Latin flavor thanks to 'Flaco' Falcon on timbales. The songs are all about love, tolerance and brotherhood. A brilliant set of tunes from a forgotten, underrated band with a ridiculous name. Yeah! My rip @ highVBR w/scans.

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Red Dirt - Red Dirt (1970)

If a band like Crabby Appleton can have a polar opposite, Red Dirt is it! Releasing only one album in 1970, this British band featured a singer that probably learned to sing at the same whiskey bar as Edgar Broughton. Talk about raspy. No power pop or melodic hard rock here. The music is down and dirty, low-down, grungy, fuzzed-out blues rock. This is nasty and uncouth, completely uncalled for. Four bonus tracks are different somehow, much more polished but still good!

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Ashra - New Age Of Earth (1977)

More brilliant electronica from Manuel Gottsching, formerly of Cosmic Jokers and Ash Ra Tempel. I'm pretty sure all of you know what to expect here - low-key, otherworldly guitar playing against a flowing tapestry of synthesizer sounds. Lyrical and beautiful.

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Hanuman - Hanuman (1971)

Hanuman was started by former Murphy Blend organist Wolf-Rüdiger Uhlig, they put out this one album and changed their name to Lied Des Teufels after Uhlig left. The music is very jazzy and teutonic, a good progressive rock album. A lot of people might have trouble with the vocals, including me, as they are very, ah, "German". Maybe too German for some of us. After a couple listens they don't sound too very weird though.

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Fresh Blueberry Pancake - Heavy (1970)

This band was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They formed in 1968 and by 1970 they were performing primarily original material which necessitated the recording of this demo album. Only 54 copies were pressed, and they were used for promotion... it's now rather difficult to locate! The music ranges from post-Hendrix/Blue Cheer brain-numbingly heavy acid-rock (watch out for the opener, Hassles), through bluesy moods, lighter jazzy touches, to jangley almost-folk-rock restraint. The lyrics occasionally head in a religious direction but are not preachy; the overall feel is more one of "Old Crow" than "Old Testament". (Fuzz, Acid & Flowers)

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OK later.