A collectors wet dream in regards to rarity. This privately pressed 7" was made to publicise the 1971 Hartlepool Rock Festival. Four local artists appear on the 45, all of them in the Hard Rock vein of the time period. Some great riffage!
Bedemon was an off-shoot of Pentagram. The band was an outlet for the songwriting sometime Pentagram guitarist Randy Palmer. Palmer and drummer Geof O'Keefe recorded a series of demos throughout the 70's. Most featuring bassist Mike Mahews and singer Bobby Leibling, but because Palmer never wanted to pursue Bedemon as a serious act, the group never recorded a proper studio album. After years of having tapes bootlegged, a proper collection was issued in 2005, 3 years after Palmer had been killed in a car crash. Geof O'Keef and Mike Mathews plan to continue the band.
The Name "Bedemon" was formed from a combination of "Behemoth" and "Demon", which had been Palmers initial ides for the groups moniker.
Recorded in 1971 and posthumously released by Rockadelic in 1995, Sudden death remains extremely obscure. Their LP "Suddenly" released kinda 25 years later, questions arise. Were they too heavy and gloomy for their era? For some strange reason, the band was unable to catch a buzz with their music and get that illusive album contract. It's a shame really, and a sad indication that the music industry wasn't much less retarded back in the early 70's, than it is now because the material presented here is outstanding.
This is the most gut-wrenching, slamming heavy rock I've had since first hearing the once obscure but now classic "Satori." Unbelievably heavy proto-NWOBHM with totally over the top caterwauling banshee vocals. This is just dripping with evil. Like pretty much all heavy bands of the era, there are at least some noticeable traces of the blues rock that metal evolved from, but for the most part this is much closer to a late 70's metal sound. The 1972 vintage makes it a major historical curiosity in the history of metal.
I have a special affinity with the exaggerated ,wailing raw vocals, and raw 70's jamming sound of this album. But it is an essential listen for anyone who drools over the likes of Flower Travellin''Band, Pentagram, Budgie, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Blue Cheer, etc.
Frijid Pink is a Detroit area blues rock band formed in 1967, best known for their version of "House of the Rising Sun" released in 1969. The initial lineup of the band included drummer Richard Stevers, guitarist Gary Ray Thompson, bassist Tom Harris, lead singer Tom Beaudry (a.k.a. Kelly Green), and later added Larry Zelanka as off-staff keyboardist.
Frijid pink was formed when members of the Detroit Vibrations Stevers, and Harris, were joined by guitaist Gary Ray Thompson ,(who convinced Vibrations manager Clyde Stevers that he was a better candiidate for a guitarist), and singer Tom Beaudry, who later took the stage name Kelly Green. They spent their first two years touring throughout the southeast Michigan/Detroit area and eventually signed with Parrot Records. Their first two singles, "Tell Me Why"and "Drivin' Blues" (both released in 1969)ailed to attract much attention, but their third 1969 effort, a distorted guitar driven rendition of ''House of the Rising Sun" reached the top ten on the U.S. Billboard "Hot 100" Chart in winter of 1970. This disc sold over one million copies, thereby earning a gold disc.
The band was so popular in their native Detroit area that a fledgling Led Zeppelin (who were just then getting started from the remnants of the Yardbirds) opened for them at Detroit's Grande Ballroom. Frjid Pink often shared billing with the likes of The MC5, The Stooges, The Amboy Dukes and others.
The Edgar Boughrow Band started their career as thr Edgar Boughrous Blues and from Warwick, England in 1969. However, when the band began to lean towards the emerging psychedelic movement, they dropped the "Blues" from their name as well as their music. In 1968, the band moved to London in search of a recording contract as well as a bigger fan base, and they were picked up by Blackhill Enterprises who landed them a deal with EMI's progressive label Harvest. This single was their first and subsequently the first single released on Harvest as well. In 1968, the Edgar Broughton Band moved to Notting Hill Gate, London, seeking a recording contract and a wider audience. Blackhill landed them their first record deal on EMI's progressive rock label Harvest Records, in December 1968. Their first single was "Evil" b/w "Death of an Electric Citizen", released in June 1969, which was also the first single released for Harvest.
Th e first single was followed the band's first album, Wasa Wasa. Wasa Wasa retained a heavily blues influenced sound that was hard driven and propelled Edgar Broughton's gritty vocal style, which was similar to that of Captain Beefheart and Howlin' Wolf. The Broughton's entered into an attempt at capturing their live sound on record by organizing a performance at Abbey Road on 9 Dec.,1969. Only one track was released at the time, a rendition of "Out Demon Out", an adaptation of the Fug's song "Exorcising the Demon Out of the Pentagon" which had become the band's set closer and anthem. The rest of the recording was lost until rediscovery and release in a remixed form in 2004 as "Keep them Freaks Rollin'' Live at Abby Road 1969. The band's touring attracted some controversy from their series of concert locations such as children's playgrounds , and from a number of cases of civil disorder occurring at their shows The most notorious incidents were a show in Redcar at which a fight broke out between audience members and led to violent police intervention, and a show in Keele where the audience vandalized the venue with paint given to them by the band. Though the band denied doing anything to incite any of these incidents (in the case of Keele the band admitted to giving them paint but declared 'we didn't tell 'em to do anything with it"), several towns band the groups concerts.
The Edgar Broughton Band kept recording, releasing the live performance of "Out Demons Out" as a single (b/w "Mama's Reward (Keep the Freaks Rollin' )), a polemic on the 1970 General Election declaring their intention to drop out. The song featured a string arrangement by David Belford. in 1971, the band decided that existence as a power trio was limiting, and asked Victor Unitt, who meanwhile had been playing in the Pretty Things, to rejoin the band. In May, with the new lineup, they released their eponymous third album, which contained "Evening Over Rooftops" (again with strings by David Bedford).
With the success of their third album, The Edgar Broughton Band. The band relocated to Devon to begin recording for their next album, "In Side Out" The band then recorded their fifth album Oora, in 1972. Following the release of this album Unitt left the band.
In 1975 the band signed to Nems. In the same year, John Thomas joined the band on guitar for the Broughton's sixth album, Bandages. This feature a softer sound than previous releases. Shortly after the album's release John Thomas left and was replaced by Terry Cottam/ In 1976, having recorded the lave album "Live is Harder (which was not released until 1979)" The Edgar Broughton Band dissolved.
"A truly underground document of the national obsession with heavy, mind-bent psychedelia. Originating in the suburb of Prairie Village, Kansas Bulbous Creation seems to have warped directly from the wrong side of the looking glass with a jabberwoky of surreal lyrics and gratuitous guitar solos. Recorded and abandoned in the catacombs of Independence, Missouri's Cavern Sound Studio in 1969. Bulbous Creation's eight song screed invokes images of sinners, wage slaves, drugs, out of touch parents, jail, and the devil, of course." - Numero Group.
Extremely rare heavy psych album with "acid guitars and evil lyrics", so says Discogs.
This is another one off album of the early 70's. It seems they disappeared after this release. Recorded in two sessions ('70&'71) and came in a thick cardboard sleeve.
Titanic were a hard rock band from Norway, formed in 1969, which also featured a British member in it's lineup. I October 1971, Titanic reached No.5 in the U.K. singles chart with their instrumental track "Sultana." It was performed in the style of then popular band Santana. The tune also appeared on their album "Sea Wolf." However, due to lack of corresponding chart presence, Titanic are known as "one-hit-wonders." Titanic disbanded in 1979.
The Bakerloo Blues Line was formed in 1968 by Dave "Clem" Clemson and Terry Poole along with Kieth Baker. The group appeared as the support act for Led Zeppelin's debut at the Marquee Club on October 18th, 1968, and it is said that Bakerloo was of a big influence for Hendrix and Cream.
While reviews for this album were favorable, the band itself was in disarray at the end of 1969. By the time the record was released, and by '69, the Clemson/Poole/Baker lineup went their seperate ways. Clemson initially sought to start a blues-rock power trio with Cozy Powell.
This album kicks MAJOR ass! Heavy blues based rock from the U.K. with awesome guitar work and frantic drums. Bill Ward of Black Sabbath was a one time drummer for this outfit. The band also played extensively and toured with Earth, the band that would become Black Sabbath.
Originally performing in a blues band known as the Loop, Killing Floor founder Mick Clarke (lead guitar) and Bill Thorndycraft (vocals ,harmonica) formed the band in 1968 in London, England, after glaceing an advertisement in Melody Maker. From this they recruited Lou Martin (piano), Stuart McDonald (bass guitar) and Bazz Smith (drums). After undertaking their maiden gig, former Wonderful Radio London DJ, and agent John Edward.offered to manage the fledgling outfit. Edward led them to signing a contract with Spark Records and in 1968, their self titled debut album was recorded in less than two weeks at the Pye recording studios. Edwards was listed as the records producer., although he had no previous experience in that field. The majority of the tracks were re-workings of older Chicago blues material, although the only true cover version therin was of Willie Dixon's "You Need Love." Allmusic described the set as a "Less reverent, and altogether heavier update of the Yardbirds rave-up sound." In the United States, the album was released on the Sire label.
Following the release of Killing Floor and a couple of BBC1 sessions, Lou Martin left the band, and they continued for a while as a four piece. In March 1970, the band played at the Easter Festival in Hamburg, Germany. In 1970 and 1971, further lineup changes took place which included the former Juicy Lucy vocalist Ray Owen, drummer Rod De'Ath, and bassist Mick Hawsworth joining the band. The latter had previously been in Andromeda., and latter went on to join Fuzzy Duck.
In 1970, the band's second album, Out Of Uranus was released on Penny Farthing Records. Although Edward retained record producer credits. Larry Page oversaw the recording sessions as executive producer. Allmusic commented that Out Of Uranus is rawer and most irreverent than most second-line British blues rock of the late 60's and early 70's, as indicated by the title itself. A single from Out Of Uranus "Call for the Politicians" received airplay on BBC Radio 1, and also sold well in Germany. However , by mid-1972, the group had decided to disband.
