Yesterday's Children, an American proto-metal band who enjoyed a brief, but unsuccessful three year career in the late '60's. Not to be confused with the Chicago band of the same name which appears on the "Pebbles" box set. They released three singles and one full length before splitting up in 1969. Apart from a few bits and pieces over the internet, not too much is known of the band.
The volume and fury behind this album is second only to Blue Cheer for the time period. Loud, aggressive, it just fucking shreds. This obscure little band from Connecticut could bring it as well as any. Vanilla Fudge, MC5, Sabbath, all come to mind. Ad a little psych and here you go.
Recorded in 1972, and released in Aug. of 1974 on Majestic Records, Blast's "Damned Flame/Hope" 45 was but a month behind the Stooges "I got a Right", which was taped in June of '74. Although nobody noticed it for five years. The same can not be said for Blast as their sole release was only pressed to the tune of 300-500 copies and was straight up alien to the general music consuming public of the time.
This is straight solid Punk Rock/Proto-Metal in the vein of Motorhead/Discharge.
Re-issued on Death Vault records in May of 2015, it sold out quicker than it took to press. Check out Death Vault Records page for some cool pics and reviews.
Fucking incredible krautrock from 1972, this album is four tracks (the first being 18 min.!) of intensely energetic sonic mayhem. Tons of awesome guitar and keys exploding through, highly active
drum/bass interplay forming an intense wall of sound and fury, and not a dull moment from some of these long tracks that make up the album.
Curt Cress, the drummer, was only 17 at the time of this recording.
One of the best krautrock albums from the '70's by a mile! Essential for ANY krautrock collection.
The band broke up right after recording this gem. But they left behind a crater blown on the surface.
A lot of mystery revolves around this one. I've read quite a bit about them, however I've only found
the same little bits of knowledge. The band hailed from Glasgow, and played some truly sweltering heavy prog/psych. Just a quick google search will find you a number of reviews, so I'll spare you mine, except for the fact that I think it rips.
The tapes for this album, were found, apparently in a shed in the '80's, and released on a label (on CD) called "Witch and Warlock." The band recorded this demo material in '71. Shortly after the band reformed under a different name and their manager, a wealthy Scottish business man moved the band to London around '74, where they recorded another demo, which remains missing.
Here is the link to a blog where the album was featured, and the members of Soho Orange contact the auther in the comments section and fill in some of the gaps of the history of this awesome band.
