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Various Artists - Brown Acid "The Seventeenth Trip" '2023

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Album name Brown Acid "The Seventeenth Trip"
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Date 2023
GenrePsychedelic Rock
Play time 32 min
Format / Bitrate 24 BIT Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
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Size 240; 405 MB
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Lucky number 17? You better believe it. We here at Brown Acid have been scouring
the highways and byways of America for even more hidden stashes of
psych/garage/proto-punk madness from the so-called Aquarian Age. There’s
no flower power here, though—just acid casualties, rock stompers and
major freakouts. As always, the songs have been officially licensed, and all the
artists get paid.

Kicking off this trip, Grapple’s “Ethereal Genesis” is a
heavy psych gem from 1969 written by J. Bruce Svoboda, a.k.a. Jay Bruce,
formerly of The Hangmen and The Five Canadians (who were actually the same San
Antonio band). The latter’s 1966 garage favorite “Writing on the
Wall” has been endlessly covered, but Grapple were never heard from again.
With a guitar riff that blatantly rips off Sabbath’s “Black
Sabbath,” Image’s mostly instrumental lysergic obscurity
“Witchcraft ’71” (originally unveiled that very year) also
boasts a horror-movie organ intro, a voodoo drum break and some championship
chanting. Private press heads might recall late Image drummer John Beke from his
’80s reemergence with country rockers Crossfyre. Stone Hedge were a
seven-piece rock band out of Michigan with a penchant for Creedence and
anthropomorphism. “Smokey Bear” is their 1972 tribute to the
official mascot of the U.S. Forest Services—not to mention the A side of
their sole single—and it recalls the kind of organ-drenched swamp jam
that soundtracked many a Burt Reynolds flick back in the day. If you think being
a Southern rock band from Milwaukee doesn’t make much sense,
that’s probably why Crossfire changed their sound along with their
name—to Bad Boy—after signing with United Artists. Bad
Boy’s severely underappreciated second album, Back To Back, is a 1978
hard rock jewel, but you can hear their boogie-woogie roots on this rare 1975
single. With a band name like Primevil and song title like “Too Dead To
Live,” you probably expect some gnarly proto-metal riffage. Instead, you a
get a harmonica-drenched, soul-infused rock rave-up from 1972. Primevil would
release their sole LP two years later: Entitled Smokin’ Bats at
Campton’s, it’s a reference to their trusty singer, harp player
(and bat smoker?), Dave Campton. Brown Acid regulars already know Pegasus from
their appearance with “The Sorcerer” on our Seventh Trip.
“Ready to Rave” is the flipside to that 1972 single, in which they
explain how they like their whiskey cold and their women hot. It’s
another killer glimpse of what might have been if these one-and-done Baltimore
hard rockers had been able to keep it together. One of two obscure singles
released by Texas musician Bobby Mabe in 1969 (the other appears under the name
The Outcasts), “I’m Lonely” delivers a heavy dose of vocal
soul to the otherwise psych-garage presentation. Fans of fellow Houstonians the
Moving Sidewalks—whom Bobby and his Outcasts may well have gigged
with—will especially dig this one. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, may not be known
as a cultural mecca, but they did give us Truth & Janey. This deadly hard rock
trio delivered their holy grail full-length, No Rest for the Wicked, back in
1976. “Around and Around” is a Chuck Berry cover that originally
appeared on a 1973 single the band released under the earlier name Truth.
Originally released in 1973, “High School Letter” is the debut
single from San Diego rock squad Glory. This infectious bonehead cruncher
features future Beat Farmer Jerry Raney and the original rhythm section of Iron
Butterfly in bassist Greg Willis and drummer Jack Pinney. Glory is what they got
up to after their former bandmates left for L.A.’s garden of Eden.
“Jack the Ripper” is a mercilessly bootlegged Cleveland classic from
1978 with a serrated punk edge and vocals that recall Mick Blood of Aussie
savages the Lime Spiders. Or maybe it’s the other way around—the
Lime Spiders formed the year after Strychnine carved off this lethal paean to
the infamous Whitechapel slasher of olde.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Grapple - Ethereal Genesis (3:17)
1.02 - Witchcraft 71 - Image (4:33)
1.03 - Stone Hedge - Smokey Bear (3:42)
1.04 - Crossfire - I Gotta Move (2:32)
1.05 - Primevil - Too Dead To Live (3:06)
1.06 - Pegasus - Ready To Rave (3:11)
1.07 - Bob Mabe & The Outcast - I'm Lonely (3:55)
1.08 - Truth - Around And Around (2:19)
1.09 - Glory - High School Letter (3:16)
1.10 - Strychnine - Jack The Ripper (2:35)

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