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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Wildweeds - Wildweeds (1970-71 us, strong country rock with folk blues and roots 'n' roll shades, Akarma reissue)

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It's the stuff of pop music legend: in the late 60s, a young band with a scorching style and a regional number-one song dri...
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Friday, November 23, 2012

Nektar - Sunday Night At London Roundhouse (1974 uk, spectacular progressive rock, Bellaphon double disc set)

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Releasing a live LP with side A containing one and a half song from a recorded concert and side B containing three cuts from a jam ...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Grace Slick And The Great Society - Conspicuous Only By Its Absence / How It Was (1968/71 us, west coast psychedelic rock, historical live recordings at Frisco's matrix club 1966, Collector's Item issue)

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This double-LP/single-CD reissue combines both of the Great Society's live albums, Conspicuous Only by Its Absence and How ...
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Mapleoak - Mapleoak (1970-71 uk/canada, fine classic rock melted with rural, blues and jazzy tunes, featuring Peter Quaife from the Kinks fame)

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During the mid-‘60s, guitarist Stan Endersby was at the forefront of the Toronto music scene, playing with some of the city’s mo...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The Great Society - Born to Be Burned (1965-66 us, classic west coast psych garage with young Grace Slick , Sundazed edition)

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Before joining Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick sang lead and played various instruments for the Great Society, who were nearly ...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Skin Alley - Skin Tight (1973 uk, fine classic rock)

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After a live gig and a TV show in Memphis, we were introduced to Don Nix who had just been doing work at Muscle Shoals and wit...
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Tramline - Somewhere Down the Line (1968 uk, power blues rock, 2008 remaster)

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Somewhere Down The Line' is the first of two albums by a group that was a contemporary of fellow Island Records' signing ...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

The Rockets - The Rockets (1968 us, respectable west coast blended psychedelic rock pre Crazy Horse)

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It's easy to see why The Rockets attracted Neil Young's attention. Listen to "Let Me Go," Danny Whithen'...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Tangerine - The Peeling Of Tangerine (1971 us, excellent hard psych jam rock, Gear Fab issue)

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In the late fifties and early sixties Big Al was on of the local, (Latrobe, PA), musicians that had the privilege of playin...
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Fear Itself - Fear Itself (1968 us, awesome heavy acid psych blues rock, 2006 edition)

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A late sixties San Francisco outfit, whose album is full of fuzz-blues material sounding rather like a psychedelic Groundhogs....
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