Various – Brown Acid: The Eleventh Trip LP

Description

Riding Easy is now in the double digits of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from the 60s-70s and clearly this has become a bonafide archaeological movement as each new edition leads to more exciting new discoveries. Like the label has done throughout this series, all of these tracks were painstakingly licensed legitimately and the artists were paid.Here are just a few of the delights herein: This Trip opens with Adam Winds Something Else, featuring groovy crooning and a very acid-damaged guitar riff that meanders across key signatures like it aint no thing. This 1969 single by the Tacoma, WA band predates grunge by 20 years, but the bands heavy psych and murky tones are just the stuff Northwest heroes Mudhoney sought so fervently at their peak. Lead singer Leroy Bells excessive vibrato gives the tune its charm, but the heavy breakdown in the middle is the real payoff.Later, Renaissance Fair take things in a very weird, very fun and undeniably heavy direction with an insanely distorted organ that sounds like a monstrous vacuum cleaner over dirge rhythms and growling vocals on theirlets reiterateweird 1968 track In Wyrd. Think if someone left a copy of The Doors Strange Parade out to warp in the sun on a blown-out toy record player, and then visiting space creatures attempted to imitate what theyd heard.Finally, Crazy Jerry sends this edition off on a high note with Every Girl Gets One, featuring crunching riffs, rollicking electric piano, stop n start rhythms and a curious telephone call sounding like a creepy answer to the Big Boppers Chantilly Lace. Crazy Jerry is the alter-ego of guitarist Jerry Ciccone, who can also be heard on a few soul / funk and rock records from the 70s, including The Left Bankes second album. But here, Jerry iswell, simply crazy.Get comfortable and prepare for yet another deep, deep dive into the treasure trove of dank, subterranean, wild-eyed and hairy rock n roll.

Brown Acid – The Eleventh Trip by RidingEasy Records