There's no links for complete albums, so here's a collage of Tiger B. Smith's output over the span of their '70's career. There is another release from 1984, as well as a couple other bands formed by Schmidt that came after the bands demise.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Tiger B. Smith - ''Tiger Rock" 1972 / ''We're the Tiger Bunch" - 1974
Monday, June 29, 2015
Electric Funeral - Wild Performance 1970
'The Wild Performance" is made of private live & rehearsal tapes recorded in 1970, very raw and low-fi, but it's the only testimony of their brutal sound. First released in 1991 as a very limited (200, numbered, and now very sought after) LP, here's an expanded edition with newly remastered sound and four killer bonus tracks taken from the reels and tapes recently found in the bands archives. These tracks were also recorded in 1970 except for 'My Destiny (1973). Sound is still low-fi but slightly better than the original "Wild Performance" tracks, especially on the killer "You Can Help" (proto-punk a la Electric Eels), "My Destiney, and the alternate version of "To Be One."
"Electric Funeral should be mentioned right up there with their other country companions such as: Toad, Haze, After Shave and Pacific Electric."
--Klemin Breznikar "It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine"
It's heavy as hell and I just wish it was a little bit better sound quality, but I still like the grittiness of it! Pretty good hard psych/prog/proto metal that kind of reminds me of Edgar Broughton in parts. Turn it up!
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The Flying Hat Band - Demos 1973?
The Midlands prog/rock scene was in full swing in '70-'73 and The Flying Hat Band were among the favorites of the scene. A strong, hard rocking power trio, the band featured guitar player Glen Tipton, famous for going on to become a career long member of another popular midlands band, Judas
Priest. TFHB only lasted for a couple years, but in that time became rampantly popular, even scoring a support slot for Deep Purple on a European tour. (all this with no album released!)
They did however sign a deal with Vertigo and record an album which was ultimately shelved by the label for having to close a similarity to their cash cow, Black Sabbath (sad!). After Tipton left for Priest, (who had recently signed with Gull for their first release) other members went on to join with bands such as Little Johnny England, The Albion Band, and from Canada, the Pat Travers Band.
Years after the demise of TFHB, a German label, SPM International (not to be confused with SPV, also from Germany) mysteriously released a split CD between TFHB and a band called "Antrobus" (Antrobus was later discovered to actually be Iron Claw, DO check them out. Either on this blog or elsewhere. You won't regret it!) titled "Buried Alive." (1992)
This CD contained four tracks from TFHB. Another unofficial release can be found on Acid Nightmare records. This time a split release featuring demos from Earth. (pre-Black Sabbath) As for the rest of the album, it's rumored that the master tapes reside still in Tipton's posession,
Only time will tell if they'll ever see the light of day.
*Trivia Time! TFHB drummer Steve Palmer, is the brother of Carl Palmer. (Emerson, Lake, & Palmer)
They did however sign a deal with Vertigo and record an album which was ultimately shelved by the label for having to close a similarity to their cash cow, Black Sabbath (sad!). After Tipton left for Priest, (who had recently signed with Gull for their first release) other members went on to join with bands such as Little Johnny England, The Albion Band, and from Canada, the Pat Travers Band.
Years after the demise of TFHB, a German label, SPM International (not to be confused with SPV, also from Germany) mysteriously released a split CD between TFHB and a band called "Antrobus" (Antrobus was later discovered to actually be Iron Claw, DO check them out. Either on this blog or elsewhere. You won't regret it!) titled "Buried Alive." (1992)
This CD contained four tracks from TFHB. Another unofficial release can be found on Acid Nightmare records. This time a split release featuring demos from Earth. (pre-Black Sabbath) As for the rest of the album, it's rumored that the master tapes reside still in Tipton's posession,
Only time will tell if they'll ever see the light of day.
Slowbone - Tales of a Crooked Man / Live at the Greyhound 1972 - 1974
This early band of such an expansive career is as damn fine a specimen of hard prog/proto metal as any other I've encountered. I have a feeling, had it not been for the un-tameable ambition of Hart, meaning to say, if you could get him to sit still, it most likely would have developed into one of the more mighty classic influences as any of the other bands which take so much credit for the development of metal.. This album, a collection of all their singles, was released far after the groups demise, as well as a live album: "Live at the Greyhound"
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Eugene Carnan s/t 1972
Recorded in a garage in the U.K., insulated with egg cartons, on a two track stereo Sony tape recorder and a small mixer, these are the tracks from 1972, as they were, recorded live, with five
microphones, no , over dubs, complete with drumsticks smacking into a mic here and there. Eight tracks of very powerful guitar driven hard rock were recorded within two days, (one of them, apparently on a different reel, lost forever) and later that same year the band had self destructed as members became unreliable and quit. The recordings however were taken into a direct -to-disc service, and cut into 4 acetate L.P.'s in hopes of finding a replacement bass player. Cassette copies were known to be recorded off for interested friends, however it wasn't until the singer's brother in law took the original tape reels 40 years later that it was released on C.D. A very cool story behind a very cool band with the unfortunate life span of a mayfly.
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