ROCK-A-RAMA
BULLDOG (Decca):: Featuring Gene Cornish and Dino Danelli from the Rascals, this has more of the legendary New York sound than any I've heard in years. Recommended for fans of the Good Rats.
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ROCK-A-ROMA
RECORDS
BULLDOG (Decca):: Featuring Gene Cornish and Dino Danelli from the Rascals, this has more of the legendary �New York� sound than any I�ve heard in years. Recommended for fans of the Good Rats.
SILVERHEAD (Signpost):: Just another bunch of pretty faces. Fag rock is only worthwhile when real fags sing it. Bet if David Bowie propositioned these guys on a street comer they�d run all the way back to the pool hall.
5 - SOFT MACHINE (Columbia):: Pretty much of a carbon copy of numbers one through four. Very progressive and all, but not exactly listenable.
THE VERY REAL RED SIMPSON (Capitol):: The gonzo country album of the year, except maybe for tody�s, �cept this one doesn�t deal any oldies, so, the gonzo country album of the year. Red was one of the ACTUAL originators of the counter-counterculture. This historic hungchow spazzmagorda took place in San Francisco in the summer of �68, when Red and a few truck-drivin� buddies passed out free Colt 45 (tall and cold) to a group of former diggers in the Haight.
�LIVE AT THE WHITE HOUSE� - BUCK OWENS (Capitol):: Where else but at the White House would Buck Owens get a nice round of appluase upon his introduction, but not the merest hand clap at the end of the first line, �They�re gonna put me in the movies.� Who else but a gonzo gomer like Buck would splice a studio recording to the front end of his Wljite House album titled �You Ain�t Gonna Have Ol� Buck To Kick Around No More.� Happy Times are here again? P.S.: This album was recorded on September 9, 1968; what does that tell you? Why it�s being released just now, huh? Paul Krassner take note.
ROAD (Natural Resources):: A time machine directed backwards about four years. Former Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding returns to his position of throbbing, vibrating, groin-thrusting bottom after a slight hiatus of lowkey guitar work with Fat Mattress. Lead guitarist Rod Richards (ex of Rare Earth) is no Jimi, although he�d like us to think otherwise with his unrestrained use of wahwah punctuated by ear piercing feedback. Making the Hendrix - Cream - Blue Cheer - Hook circa �68 cycle complete is drummer Leslie Sampson who gets to do his fair share of rackety soloing.
ROLL EM SMOKE EM PUT ANOTHER LINE OUT - PATTO (Island):: If you, like I, thought that by "the time a group put a third album out, they just naturally should be starting to get listenable, may I recommend Patto. Seems we both have something to learn yet.
WATERLOO LILY - CARAVAN (London):: Neither concept nor jazzbo flirtations get much in (he way of the big beat. The woman at the extreme right on the front cover is holding a piece of paper. Is this the original painting? �Black Joke� or �Black Toke�?
WHY DON�T YOU TRY ME - EARTHQUAKE (A&M):: The best white R&B band since the Young Rascals. You can even dance to �em! Equally at home with heavy drivers such as �Trainride� and cover versions of soul songs like �I Get the Sweetest Feeling.� Youthful vigor and good solid rhythmic pulsations sustain the excitement and prove there�s at least one West Coast group that can shake it down.
BOZ SCAGGS - MY TIME (Columbia):: Your time is up, Boz. You will never rock again. Take him away men.
SHORTY FEATURING GEORGIE FAME (Epic):: Released four years ago now, this is just one of those totally beautiful jazz-rock albums, recorded live in front of about 25 people in a bar somewhere. Fame is a classic English jazz stylist, and Alan Skidmore�s tenor plus Fame�s halting vocals and blocky organ make this the bargain bin find of the year. Atmosphere and funk, don�t dare pass it up.
AMBiUSH - MARC BENNO (A&M); and HOME GROWN - BOOKER T. & PRISCILLA (A&M):: There�s been a lot of talk about Leon being a culprit. Bullshit! Delaney and Bonnie are the culprits. The two D&B albums with which Leon was associated were by far their best. Jesse Davis� first was a production (Leon) masterpiece. And how about Delaney and that Clapton album, huh? Proves it. Marc�s the Asylum Choir cohort who also played rhythm guitar on L.A. Woman, the best of Southern honky punk rock for what it�s worth. Priscilla and spouse have cut an album which is the ultimate in D&B, backup chicks-have-cheapbut-recurring-orgasms-aplenty, goshpill worthlessness. It�s like, you know, you sit there in the bar and instead of actually drinking the beer, you shake it up each time and drink the foam. Guaranteed to give you gas.
A FOOT IN COLDWATER (Daffodil):: Black Sabbath lives in Canada. Good stuff.
(A BEGINNING) - TYRANNOSAURUS REX (A&M):: Hey, I bought one of the Tyrannosaurus Rex albums, the one on Blue Thumb, a couple of years ago. I thought it was a big cosmic sooey suck. Well, these two are much better, given the prescience of latter day rocking. Any good American such as yourself who relates to the Incredible String Band shouldn�t have much of a problem with this.
