Incredible Hog - "Vol.1" 1973

From Noisecreep: "If you ask any aficionato of heavy and arcane tuneage to rattle off a list of the burliest and best sounds to come out of Britain in the early 70's, the words Incredible Hog are bound to fall from their lips.
The London based power trio only managed to shoot out one L.P. in their time of existance -- the optimistically titled "Vol.1 --  but the legend left behind with that sole effort weilds more weight than most bands multi-album catalogs.
Formed in 1972 from the ashes of the band Speed Auction, Incredible Hog was made up of Ken Gordon (guitar/vocals), Jim Holmes (bass), and Tony Awin (drums).. The trio was taking in all that was to be offered musically in London at the time. Everything from the British blues boom, to the emerging sounds of progressive rock was all grist for their hefty brand of brew. Although they seemed to be self sustaining, booking their own shows at their own club called "The Pig Sty", they were determined to get a label to released their first L.P. The unknown Dart Label stepped into the picture to release "Vol.1" by the middle of 1973. Even though the album was thunderous from start to finish, the lack of funds Dart had to promote it made it fall into the cracks. Crestfallen over the situation, the band split up by the end of 1973." -by Tony Rettmann for Noisecreep

Morgan - "Love" a.k.a. Steve Morgan - "Morgan" 1969

Morgan, from Long Island, N.Y., released their sole album on the Probe imprint. A subsidarry of ABC in 1969. Garage Punk at it's finest with no blues/heavy metal elements what so ever. Morgan was fronted by guitarist/vocalist, and over all horn-dog Steve Morgan. Plenty of acid guitars and pounding drums for which to blow your speakers to hell.
Pychedelic Rock'n'Roll puts it: "Steve Morgan is one horny guy, and it's hard to tell if he's more interested in getting laid or hallucinating."
Rockesteria writes: "Steve Morgans sexually charged lyrics and over the top vocals will irritate some listeners but that's really a minor complaint as most of Morgan is full of fuzzed out guitar solos and solid songs. No beads or flowers for these guys. Morgan is straight up brooding hard rock psych"
I couldn't agree more.

It's All Meat - s/t 1970 / Underworld - "Go Away" 1969

From Toronto Ontario, Canada, It's All Meet recorded one album for Columbia in 1970. A truly superb album however very little known. The band consisted of Rick Aston (bass), Jed MacKay (organ/piano), Rick McKim (drums). Wayne Roworth (guitar), and Norm Writ (guitar). MacKay and McKim both previously played together with Toronto's Underworld, who's lone single "Go Away", released in 1968, is considered one of Canada's most sought after Garage rock songs.
It's All Meat sound a bit like the Doors on a few of the more mellow tracks on the L.P., others are really decent acid type psych.
All the songs included in this playlist are from the original L.P., as well as 6 bonus tracks found on the 2nd CD re-issue.
In addition, I've included the band's first non-album single, the garage punk rocker "Feel It", released in 1970.
The original album is so rare, you'll need at least $1800.00 to land a copy of your own. I'll settle for the re-issue.

Grannie - s/t 1971

From Record Collector issue 388 "eBay watch": Over the last decade or so, Grannie has become a by-word for obscure, collectable prog. Back in 1971 they were just a band with no record deal, playing a few local gigs, who decided to press their own album to sell to friends and family.
Perhaps it was the quality of the music (which was streets ahead of their contemporaries), the sleeve (a freaky "old lady with Les Paul" photo), or a series of Chinese whispers...
Whatever it was, thirty years later, Grannie has become a bit of a legend. So when the daughter of the bands Hammond organ player was, as she put it, "trying to scrape together a house deposit", she took her chances on eBay and decided that "someone who would appreciate it" should have the copy that was given to her father when the record was made.
She wasn't banking on the extreme interest that's grown around the record over the years, dating back to an early 90's Record Collector article on the rarest prog albums ever. When she bundled the record with "a hand-written account of the recording of this album and information about the band members themselves", collectors went crazy and bidding topped out at 2,151 British pounds sterling.You can find out more about the album -- and the myths surrounding it -- on the collectors forum http://verygoodplus.co.uk/ and the prog board http://www.progarchives.com/

Re-issue

Aardvark - s/t 1970

The cool thing about Aardvark is that they brought a heavy as heel sound without the use of any guitar. Their music was solely keyboard driven. Sadly, this is another case of a really good band releasing one sole album, then falling into obscurity. You can't help but wonder what effect this band could have had on the evolution of hard rock bands. Would more of the metal bands today be using methods of delivering heavy music without distorted guitars? overdrive pedals?
Hailing from the Midlands, the band were mostly a studio project. With very little live performances to speak of. In fact, there's very little information about them at all.
Steve Miliner previously played keyboards for Black Cat Bones, ("Barbed Wire Sandwich" being their only release), but this band's popularity had much to do with Paul Kossof and Simon Kirke, who both left the band to form the band Free.
Definitely an important piece of British Psychedelia.