A TRULY INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF WEST COAST RAW GUITAR... This second volume of blasting West Coast guitar from the 50's & 60's is another stunning example of the wealth of talent in California during the era. This cd features unissued Willie Egans tracks from the 50's with the incendiary guitar of Lloyd Rowe as well as 5 different Johnny Guitar Watson sides seldom heard. Once again there is pyrotechnics from Lafayette Thomas and The Rocking Brothers and many unreissued sides from Jimmy Liggins, Cal Valentine & Pee Wee Crayton. This is an awesome companion to the first volume!
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1. Tell Me Tell Me - Johnny "Guitar" Watson 2. She's My Baby - Flash Terry & Orchestra 3. Poison Ivy - Two Crows & The Diggers featuring Lloyd Rowe 4. Tell The Truth - Blues Slim and his band 5. You Upset Me Baby - Willie Snow & The Diggers featuring Lloyd Rowe 6. Reconsider Baby - The Diggers - featuring Lloyd Rowe 7. Git To Gittin' - Pee Wee Crayton 8. You Don't Know What You're Doing - R.S. Rankin 9. Looking Back - Johnny "Guitar" Watson 10. The Eagle Is Back - Johnny "Guitar" Watson 11. Slow Jam - Bud Spudd and the Sprouts 12. Take A Chance - Jimmy McCracklin 13. Beer Tavern Girl - Jimmy McCracklin 14. Rock-It - The Rocking Bros. (Jason & Wilber) 15. Strangest Blues - Jimmy Wilson 16. Good Woman Blues - B. Brown & His Rockin' McVouts 17. I Believe In A Woman - Sly Williams 18. Boot Hill - Sly Williams 19. After Awhile - Jesse Allen 20. Knocked Out - Jimmy Liggins 21. The Search Is Over - Cal Green with the Midnighters 22. I Can Hear My Baby Calling - Cal Green with the Midnighters 23. Rat Now - Johnny "Guitar" Watson 24. Baby Don't Leave - Johnny "Guitar" Watson 25. The Boogie Twist - Cal Valentine & The Texas Rockers
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WEST COAST GUITAR KILLERS Vol. 2
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BONUS 1 OF 5
BACKDROP: The Very Essence Of Northern Soul, Circa 1974
Goldmine Soul Supply CD
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Classic Northern Soul, this CD is now out of print.
1 - JIMMY THOMAS - Where There's A Will
2 - VIOLA WILLS - I Got Love
3 - THE OLYMPICS - Same Old Thing
4 - DETROIT SOUND - Jumping At The Go-Go
5 - JACKIE LEE - Your P-e-r-s-o-n-a-l-i-t-y
6 - MICKI CHAMPION - What Good Am I (Without You)
7 - YVONNE VERNEE - Just Like You Did Me
8 - EDWARD HAMILTON & The Arabians - Baby Don't You Weep
9 - STUART AIMES - King For A Day
10 - PAT LEWIS - Look What I Almost Missed
11 - THE STAGEMASTERS - Baby I'm Just Here to Love You
12 - JOHNNY WYATT - This Thing Called Love
13 - PEOPLES CHOICE - Save My Lovin' For You
14 - THE PROFESSIONALS - That's Why I Love You [instrumental]
15 - HERBS - Never Never (Will I Fall In Love)
16 - SUNLOVERS - You'll Never Make The Grade
17 - EXSAYVONS - Running Wild
18 - STANLEY MITCHELL - Quit Twistin' My Arm
19 - THE TOKAYS - Baby Baby Baby
20 - VIVIAN CARROLL - Oh Yeah Yeah Yeah
21 - ROCKY ROBERTS & THE AIRDALES - Just Because Of You
22 - RONNIE & ROBYN - As Long As You Love Me
INFO
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BONUS 2 OF 5
RARE SOUL REVIEW
Goldmine Soul Supply CD
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Classic Northern Soul, this CD is now out of print.
1 My Baby Ain't No Plaything - Willie Jones
2 Monday Through Thursday - Steve Mancha
3 Mr Lonesome - J.J. Daniels
4 Just In The Nick Of Time - Syng McGowan
5 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - The Combinations
6 I Chose You Baby - Celebrities
7 Mister Diamond Man - Locations
8 I'm Still Yours - Johnny Summers
9 All The Way - Danderliers
10 Let Me Render My Service - New Wanderers
11 You've Got To Be Willing - Calvin Grayson
12 Be Proud (You're In Love) - Gail Anderson
13 I've Settled Down - Donald Jenkins & Delighters
14 The Change Will Do You Good - Louis Paul
15 No Explanation - Jobettes
16 The Queen - Big Ella
17 Should I Believe You - Mark III
18 Steppin' Down - Fredrick Knight
19 A Man Of My Word - Salt & Pepper
20 Love Come Back - Jackey Beaver
21 Sweet Memories - Robert Tanner
22 It's Going To Be A Tragedy - Dusty Wilson
INFO
http://www.soulfulrecords.com/Rare-Soul-Review
BONUS 3 OF 5
BLUE OYSTER CULT - Blue Oyster Cult (1972)@320
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Two years before Kiss roared out of Long Island with its self-titled debut, Blue Öyster Cult, the latest incarnation of a band assembled by guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and drummer Albert Bouchard in 1967, issued its dark, eponymously-titled heavy rock monolith. Managed and produced by the astronomically minded and conspiratorially haunted Sandy Pearlman, BÖC rode the hot, hellbound rails of blistering hard rock as pioneered by Steppenwolf, fierce mutated biker blues, and a kind of dark psychedelia that could have only come out New York. The band's debut relied heavily on the lyrics of Pearlman and rock critic Richard Meltzer, as well as Pearlman's pioneering production that layered guitars in staggered sheets of sound over a muddy mix that kept Eric Bloom's delivery in the middle of the mix and made it tough to decipher. This was on purpose -- to draw the listener into the songs cryptically and ambiguously. From the opener, "Transmaniacon MC," the listener knew something very different was afoot. This is dark, amphetamine-fueled occult music that relied on not one, but three guitars -- Bloom and keyboardist Allen Lanier added their own parts to Roeser's incessant riffing: a barely audible upright piano keeping the changes rooted in early rock and the blues, and a rhythm attack by Bouchard and his brother Joe on bass that was barely contained inside the tune's time signature. From the next track on "I'm on the Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep," elliptical lyrics talked about "the red and the black," while darkening themselves with stunning riffs and crescendos that were as theatrical as they were musical, and insured the Cult notice among the other acts bursting out of the seams of post-'60's rock. Other standouts include the cosmic "Stairway to the Stars," the boogie rave-up "Before the Kiss, a Redcap," that sounded like a mutant Savoy Brown meeting Canned Heat at Altamont. But it is on "Cities on Flame With Rock & Roll," that the Cult's sinister plan for world domination is best displayed. From its knotty, overdriven riff to its rhythm guitar vamp, Vox organ shimmer, its crash cymbal ride and plodding bass and drum slog through the changes -- not to mention its title -- it is the ultimate in early metal anthems. Add to this the swirling quizzicality of "Workshop of the Telescopes" that lent the band some of its image cred. [The 2001 remastered edition by Legacy gives punters four bonus tracks in the form of demos recorded by the band's first incarnation as Soft White Underbelly. These are not merely throwaways: it is readily apparent that by 1969, BÖC was well on their way to creating something new and menacingly different. (Thom Jurek, Allmusic)
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/blue-%C3yster-cult-mw0000652605
BONUS 4 OF 5
BLUE OYSTER CULT - Tyranny and Mutation (1973) @320
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On Tyranny and Mutation, Blue Öyster Cult achieved the seemingly impossible: they brightened their sound and deepened their mystique. The band picked up their tempos considerably on this sophomore effort, and producers Sandy Pearlman and Murray Krugman added a lightning bolt of high-end sonics to their frequency range. Add to this the starling lyrical contributions of Pearlman, rock critic Richard Meltzer, and poet-cum-rocker Patti Smith (who was keyboardist Allen Lanier's girlfriend at the time), the split imagery of Side One's thematic, "The Red" and Side Two's "The Black," and the flip-to-wig-city, dark conspiracy of Gawlik's cover art, and an entire concept was not only born and executed, it was received. The Black side of Tyranny and Mutation is its reliance on speed, punched-up big guitars, and throbbing riffs such as in "The Red and the Black," "O.D'd on Life Itself," "Hot Rails to Hell," and "7 Screaming Diz-Busters," all of which showcased the biker boogie taken to a dizzyingly extreme boundary; one where everything flies by in a dark blur, and the articulations of that worldview are informed as much by atmosphere as idea. This is screaming, methamphetamine-fueled rock & roll that was all about attitude, mystery, and a sense of nihilistic humor that was deep in the cuff. Here was the crossroads: the middle of rock's Bermuda triangle where BÖC marked the black cross of the intersection between New York's other reigning kings of mystery theater and absurd excess: the Velvet Underground and Kiss -- two years before their first album -- and the " 'it's all F#$&%* so who gives a rat's ass" attitude that embodied the City's punk chic half-a-decade later. On the Red Side, beginning with the syncopated striations of "Baby Ice Dog," in which Allen Lanier's piano was as important as Buck Dharma's guitar throb, elements of ambiguity and bluesy swagger enter into the mix. Eric Bloom was the perfect frontman: he twirled the words around in his mouth before spitting them out with requisite piss-and-vinegar, and a sense of decadent dandy that underscored the music's elegance, as well as its power. He was at ease whether the topic was necromancy, S&M, apocalyptic warfare, or cultural dissolution. By the LP's end, on "Mistress of the Salmon Salt," Bloom was being covered over by a kind of aggressively architected psychedelia that kept the '60s at bay while embracing the more aggressive, tenser nature of the times. While BÖC's Secret Treaties is widely recognized as the Cult's classic album, one would do well to consider Tyranny and Mutation in the same light. (Thom Jurek, Allmusic)
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/tyranny-and-mutation-mw0000201312
BONUS 5 OF 5
BLUE OYSTER CULT - Secret Treaties (1974) @320
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While the speed-freak adrenaline heaviness and shrouded occult mystery of Tyranny and Mutation is the watermark for Blue Öyster Cult's creative invention, it is Secret Treaties that is widely and critically regarded as the band's classic. Issued in 1974, Secret Treaties is the purest distillation of all of BÖC's strengths. Here the songs are expansive, and lush in their textures. The flamboyance is all here, and so are the overdriven guitar riffs provided by Buck Dharma and Eric Bloom. But there is something else, texturally, that moves these songs out from the blackness and into the shadows. Perhaps it's the bottom-heavy mix by producer and lyricist Sandy Pearlman, with Allen Lanier's electric piano and Joe Bouchard's bass coming to rest in an uneasy balance with the twin-guitar attack. Perhaps it's in the tautness of songwriting and instrumental architectures created by drummer Albert Bouchard, Bloom, and Don Roeser (Buck Dharma). Whatever it is, it offers the Cult a new depth and breadth. While elements of psychedelia have always been a part of the band's sound, it was always enfolded in proto-metal heaviness and biker boogie. Here, BÖC created their own brand of heavy psychedelic noir to diversify their considerably aggressive attack. Listen to "Subhuman" or "Dominance and Submission." Their minor chord flourishes and multi-tracked layered guitars and Bouchard's constantly shimmering cymbals and snare work (he is the most underrated drummer in rock history) and elliptical lyrics -- that Pearlman put out in front of the mix for a change -- added to the fathomless dread and mystery at the heart of the music. Elsewhere, on "Cagey Cretins" and "Harvester of Eyes" (both with lyrics by critic Richard Meltzer), the razor-wire guitar riffs were underscored by Lanier's organ, and their sci-fi urgency heightened by vocal harmonies. But it is on "Flaming Telepaths," with its single-chord hypnotic piano line that brings the lyric "Well, I've opened up my veins too many times/And the poison's in my heart in my heart and in my mind/Poison's in my bloodstream/Poison's in my pride/I'm after rebellion/I'll settle for lives/Is it any wonder that my mind is on fire?" down into the maelstrom and wreaks havoc on the listener. It's a stunner, full of crossing guitar lines and an insistent, demanding rhythmic throb. The set closes with the quark strangeness of "Astronomy," full of melancholy, dread, and loss that leaves the listener unsettled and in an entirely new terrain, having traveled a long way from the boasting rockery of "Career of Evil" that began the journey. It's a breathless rock monolith that is all dark delight and sinister pleasure. While the Cult went on to well-deserved commercial success with Agents of Fortune an album later, the freaky inspiration that was offered on their debut, and brought to shine like a black jewel on Tyranny and Mutation, was fully articulated as visionary on Secret Treaties. (Thom Jurek, Allmusic)
INFO
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BLUE OYSTER CULT - First Three Albums, Continued)
I love the first three albums from BOC. I think a writer/reviewer named Meltzer wrote some of the bizarre lyrics, and Patti Smith as well. She was one of member's girlfriend, I think.
Even though BOC might be considered early metal, I think there was a connection between them and other bands in the NYC scene that resulted in punk, for lack of a better term. Bands like Television and the Voidoids were also interested in making lyrics that were smarter or more poetic than your typical rock music at the time. And the crossover of Patti Smith in BOC and the NYC punk scene is further evidence of this. The first BOC album I purchased was Red And Black. On the advice if the guy who turned me on to it, I turned up the stereo full blast (with headphones -- I was like 15). The first song, also titled Red and Black, began to blast, and I consider that moment a formative musical experience. I also think that song could be considered punk. Just so fast and furious, er, energetic! (Jim Parks, The Tucson Rocker)
B.O.C.!! Woo-hoo! Love it, thanks much, and thanks for ALL your great work!
awesome post!!
a big thanks to all!!
pvc
Great stuff, all of it! Thanks for your work!
Much thanks for the BÖC retrospective!
Much thanks for the BÖC retrospective!
Hmmm......I've never really heard enough of BOC to form a proper opinion. I've been a little wary of the metal tag that gets put on them. It's also true, however, that I've never had any fuel for a negative reaction either.
Thanks for the chance to hear these, and of course for everything else!
Thanks for the Goldmine Soul Supply!!!
Richard Meltzer was THE other rock writer back in that time period of the early 70s, along with Lester Bangs, who completely turned the tables around backwards for a 15 year old kid like me reading a smudgy newsprint rag called Rolling Stone. I couldn't even buy it, I had to find it on a newsstand near the university campus and read it there. I was just beginning to get it all, trying to emulate perceived coolness, and trying to get a handle on the edgy outside world, when along came those two characters right at the very beginning, telling me that rock was shit! What?? Whaaaa??!!! How can this be? But they were so eloquent, and so right. Meltzer was just coming out of university philosophy, as I found out later, and I think he was pretty fed up with vapid hippie culture already, even before I really understood it. Much of what he said, and moreover, the way in which he said it, was very much what would be called 'punk' later on. I mean his attitude was very much, "Fuck you." I still pick up an anthology now and then, reading in a bookstore just as I did then, and I re-live the inimitable Meltzer irreverence. Nothing was sacred to that guy but the truth. Expressed as a kind of Yippie social anarchy. Crazy dirty times.
I thought Waest Coast Guitar Killers Vol 1 was great and then I downloaded Vol2. "Killers" is right; I nearly choked on my toast and marmalade it was sooo good!! My 6-year-old daughter is now a paid-up member of the Johnny 'Guitar'Watson fan club.
Muchos Gracias!!!!
Thanks for the great recollections of reading Richard Meltzer in the 70's, Laser!
I also grew up reading rock magazines in my teen years. I felt that I knew about a world that few of my friends did - it really helped to make me the music lover that I am today.
Thanks
Thank You.
LaserGuided WhiteHaus, I've read a lot of Lester, but not Meltzer. Which will be remedied when my just-now-ordered copies of "The Aesthetics of Rock" and "A Whore Just Like The Rest" arrive. Thank you!
- d.
Thank you very much for the "Backdrop" bonus! :)
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