Psychedelic Underground 3

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Album Description
Garden Of Delights label recovers and restores half-forgotten recordings from the field of progressive rock music in all its different shades, ranging from psychedelic to fusion to blues-rock, provided that there are progressive elements in it. In its ori

Tracks:

Part Time Lover
I Can't Help the Way I Feel
Vacation
Blowin' Smoke
Animal Dope
I Can Hear the Ants Dancin'
Jazzma
Clap Trap
I'd Like to Tie a Knot Around Your Mother's Thorat
Mu Cherie
Lazy Eyes
Smyphony in Effigy
Driftin'
Sweet Sweet Bulbs
Truth
And Then Came the Rains [#]
Jim Jam [#]
Iran in Japan
Spaced

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It All Started With A Trip To The Flea Market.......2006-01-04

One fall Sunday morning in 1997 I visited one of my favorite junk collecting haunts, The North Point Flea Market in Dundalk, MD. A middle aged African American gentleman had a stall with an assortment of old junk computers and various electronics and piles of records haphazardly thrown in crates, some dusty and not even in sleeves, mostly 70's and 80's soul, R&B, and disco. In the middle of this crate of records sat a sealed pristine album with a black and white photo on the cover of three long haired thugs who looked like they would stomp a high school geek's trig homework, rip up his Star Wars trading cards and shove amphetamines down his throat, all posing in the ruins of a city rowhouse. I recognized the name George Brigman; I remembered two things about him, his 1985 Silent Bones EP
that I saw a guy, who I later found out was Rick Noll of Bona Fide Records fame, hawking at a record show when it was first released , and a story Paul Cachola, the drummer from my old band Blunt Force Trauma, had told me about seeing this guy's band rehearse around the corner from his house and a song they played called "I Can Hear The Ants Dancin'", inspired by watching ants vibrating on a basement shelf due to the the volume of their playing in a druggy haze. However I was unaware that George Brigman had released anything as far back as 1975, the date on the back of this LP I was holding.

I paid one dollar for the album, took it home and put it on the turntable. Wow, what noisy vinyl. The first phase shifted guitar riff of the title cut blasted through my speakers. The vocals kicked in, poorly recorded and phasey sounding, like one too many overdubs. The drumming reminded me of Black Sabbath, the vocals were like Iggy Pop. The whole thing sounded like it was recorded in a cave on a cassette deck. The next cut "DMT" was even darker, again with Iggy like vocals straight out of the book of Funhouse. I said man this is recorded like crap, but boy are there some cool ideas here. I didn't know anyone in Baltimore was making this kind of music in 1975 amongst the wasteland of commercial rock and disco cover band hell!!! I listened to "DMT" some more thinking ,"is that a harmonica off in a distant bathroom or some poor animal dying in a tarpit in the stone age".

The album played on,"Don't Bother Me", was more traditional 60's garage with a sneering Mick Jagger like vocal, and was followed by a spooky, reverby ballad with slide guitar, "Schoolgirl". Side one ended with a murky blues rocker "I've Got To Know", with excellent slide guitar playing.

I flipped it over and the crackly vinyl was almost as loud as the opening riff of "I Feel Alright" (no, not The Damned's '77 remake of Iggy's "1970", but an original song, same title two years earlier).A quiet almost jazzy instrumental with congas, "T.S" followed (T.S. McPhee I thought?, naw this is Stoogeaphilia all the way on this disc, is he a Groundhogs fan ? It turns out yes!). Another quieter tune, "Worrying" an introspective sounding ballad follows. Then comes maybe the weirdest track on the album, the very trippy "It's Misery". What is he saying beneath the fuzztone guitar riff and off kilter rhythm that sounds like the drummer is having a hard time playing ? Then a loose blues tune,"I'm Married Too",sung by someone else, slightly off key, very Replacements like(circa Hootenanny LP era)ends the album.

It was very(unbelievably !)lo-fi. How could anyone have released a recording this raw ? I was fascinated and listened to it three more times completely before band practice. At the bar after rehearsal, it was all I could talk about. I was hooked. This record was fascinating, but not in a pretty way. It was like the bathroom mold you were afraid of cleaning but had to keep looking at. Or was it like one of those old Blind Lemon Jefferson blues 78's from the 20's ? Didn't matter, I was hooked . I needed to find out more about Jungle Rot and the genius who made it.

While surfing the web in 2000, I stumble upon a review of the Colorsound Wah pedal written by who ???? George Brigman???
There is an e-mail address; hoping it is still valid I try to
contact him, asking "are you the same guy who made Jungle Rot?
Next day I get a response with his phone number. I call, we hook up at his house, we start recording, about 40 songs in a year or so.
We are almost ready to release this new material five years later.
Look for it!!! It kicks!!! It's the best he's ever done. Jungle Rot is out on CD officially for the first time with bonus tracks recorded by George's Hogwash band in 1976 !

It all started with a trip to the flea market....

Dazed & Confused.......2005-12-10

Congrats on stumbling upon George Brigman's legendary DYI 1974 fuzz fried cult classic. You are either lost or a seriously informed collector.

For those who don't know what this is, it's pure Grunge well before phrase was coined. Long before the advent of acts like Dinosaur Jr. or Nirvana. Here The Stooges meet low-fi Cream with a little Blue Cheer tossed in for good measure. The title track is a pure slab of teenage lust.A rank, hot urban summer night with an unforgettable riff. On the eerie, "School Girl" you don't know whether he's stoned in the back of the school bus dreaming about her, or simply left her for dead in some abandoned basement. Without a doubt, Brigman's growl brings a young Iggy Pop to mind. Only more sedated. What makes this stand apart from the Stooges is Brigman's self-taught originality. The end effect is an astonishingly vivid portrait of Nixon era urban decay buried beneath the stoned haze of apathy & boredom. A virtual Teenage Wasteland, who's still living in your parent's basement. Takes you back to a 1974 you can see, hear, taste & smell. Not to be missed. [...]

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'Psychedelic Underground 3'- V/A (Garden Of Delights)

Psychedelic Underground 3
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Garden Of Delights
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000098YO0

Tracks:

America
Loneliness - Arktis
Change Bad Horizons
Abflug
Autobahn
Thought
Wreck on the Wire - Try
In the Silence of the Morning Sunrise - Agitation Free
Road to Laramy - Siloah

Album Description

Garden Of Delights label recovers and restores half-forgotten recordings from the field of progressive rock music in all its different shades, ranging from psychedelic to fusion to blues-rock, provided that there are progressive elements in it. In its ori

Customer Reviews:

'Psychedelic Underground 3'- V/A (Garden Of Delights).......2005-05-01

Cannot believe I'm the first one to ever review this various artists disc here.This import CD is the third in a series of ten(so far anyway)that gives interested listeners a chance to hear one track each from nine(9)different Garden Of Delight label releases,of mostly sub-underground bands that I'm sure most obscure progressive music fans,like myself has barely ever heard of.I've heard most every volume of this 'Psychedelic Underground' series and most are pretty decent.Best tracks here include Agitation Free's "In The Silence...",Siloah's "Road To Laramy" and The Crab's "Change Bad Horizon"(reminds me of early Jefferson Airplane).Comes with an informative full color booklet.Very nice.

Music:

Music

music

Music

Pilgrimage [Import]

SYM 1-7 / VIOLIN CTOS / ORCH WORKS (BOX) (LTD ED) [Box set] [Limited Edition]

Studies for Player Piano 1 & 2

Walker's Collectibles

The Sidewalk Ends

Tutino: La Lupa

Swingin' in the Rain

Ravel: Boléro; Pavane pour une infante défunte

The Essential Porter Wagoner

Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison

Sugar Beat

Perolas [Import]

State of Bengal Vs Paban Das Baul [Import]

Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 18 & 19

Twentysomething