who rides for Stoner Rock?
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I'm a little dude int he field, but I loves me some Boris. Caught them on the last tour with Damon & Naomi, and it was pretty awesome. We thought there were problems with the sound mix because Takeshi's vocals weren't really audible, but it turned out that their amps were playing louder than the PA.
yeah no shit, you gotta wade through some serious bullshit. Stonerrock.com has an mp3 jukebox feature where you can listen to one song off each album of pretty much every stoner rock band ever. They even have my boys band from here in Albuquerque Black Maria up there, I can't even find a cd scan for their shit online,
Stoner rock wasn't a consistent genre in the late-'60s/early-'70s, and as best as I can tell it can still be kinda patchy (depending on the band). But when it's good, it's good.
Newer bands:
- Atomic Bitchwax
- Velcro Lewis & his 100-Proof Band
- that last Melvins album
Back in the day:
- Dust
- Blue Cheer
- Bloodrock
- Mint Tattoo
- Love Machine (I just have a solitary single on Mercury; was there an album?)
- Iota (Memphis hard-rock band; I have a 45 they did on Hi...I think Hook-Up told me that there is a retrospective CD?)
- Third Power
- "You, I" by the Rugbys (this single smokes, but the album it came from is a big disappointment)
- Bar-Kays' Black Rock album (the title is not lying; these guys were making some serious Sabbath moves on this LP, and only the last two songs on side two remind you that this was supposed to be a soul band...if stoner-rock is your thing, don't sleep on this album)
I'd name others, but I don't want to monopolize the thread. I will say that there was a really good compilation of this stuff that came out last year, featuring bands like Power of Zeus and Thunder & Roses...forget the title, but I can get back to you on that if you wanna know...
Newer bands:
- Atomic Bitchwax
- Velcro Lewis & his 100-Proof Band
- that last Melvins album
Back in the day:
- Dust
- Blue Cheer
- Bloodrock
- Mint Tattoo
- Love Machine (I just have a solitary single on Mercury; was there an album?)
- Iota (Memphis hard-rock band; I have a 45 they did on Hi...I think Hook-Up told me that there is a retrospective CD?)
- Third Power
- "You, I" by the Rugbys (this single smokes, but the album it came from is a big disappointment)
- Bar-Kays' Black Rock album (the title is not lying; these guys were making some serious Sabbath moves on this LP, and only the last two songs on side two remind you that this was supposed to be a soul band...if stoner-rock is your thing, don't sleep on this album)
I'd name others, but I don't want to monopolize the thread. I will say that there was a really good compilation of this stuff that came out last year, featuring bands like Power of Zeus and Thunder & Roses...forget the title, but I can get back to you on that if you wanna know...
Iota was from El Paso, Tejas but recorded at Hi when the owners of the Suemi label out of El Paso were hired to record Hi's "white acts".
I released the previously unreleased LP on vinyl a few years back and I think there is a subsequent CD release as well.
A few of the Rockadelic LP's could be considered old school stoner rock.
Here's one by San Francisco's Shiver...... Classic Biker/Stoner rock.
ok I seriously need to check out that Bar-Kays album
Power of Zeus is another one I like, as well as Mos Generator. I think I have the comp you're talking about but maybe not, lemme know what it is. and dude, monopolize away, I'm always down to hear names of good bands I haven't checked yet.
I like Artimus Pyledriver too but they sound just a bit too much like AC/DC for me to really dig them.
Eldemur Krimm is a good band too
I was listening to that self-titled MGM album by Simon Stokes & the Nighthawks a while back...Stokes is considered the epitome of biker/stoner rock, and I'd be lying if I said it was good all the way through, but again, there's enough good moments to make it worthwhile.
Iota was from El Paso, Tejas but recorded at Hi when the owners of the Suemi label out of El Paso were hired to record Hi's "white acts".
I released the previously unreleased LP on vinyl a few years back and I think there is a subsequent CD release as well.
I just checked Iota on stonerrock, good shit, I'm feeling Casa De Los Muertos off the Three Tons album, you got any more of the vinyl you did of theirs?
I never heard The Black Rock album.
Can someone breakdown the diff btwn Stoner Rock and Psych?
I guess Psych is like acid influenced math rock and stoner rock is pot influenced metal. Psych is usually pretty trippy and quite often up beat and manic. Usually more about efects and wacky riffs. Stoner rock is usually slower, more drudging and deliberate with LOTS of distortion.
Psych is like riding a unicorn through a lolipop factory run by wizards.
Stoner Rock is like wading through mud with styrofoam wrapped around your head.
Nebula is good, though I'm not sure if they are still playing.
Fu-Manchu thinks they are stoner rock, but the singer kick the good musicians out for doing drugs and they formed Nebula.
Sleep is killer!!!!!!!!!
Sleep Chamber from Seattle was great.
Colour Haze was my shtt for a while a few months back:
and I can get down with Om and High on Fire in the right mood (and almost always w/ some Black Sabbath and Deep Purple).
Haven't heard much of the music so I can't comment in that respect... but damn, are these not some of the least appealing album covers to be grouped together in one post?
and I can get down with Om and High on Fire in the right mood (and almost always w/ some Black Sabbath and Deep Purple).
Haven't heard much of the music so I can't comment in that respect... but damn, are these not some of the least appealing album covers to be grouped together in one post?
That Stonehenge is a killer.....I spoke to the guy who ran the label but he said Nasco had all the tapes.
While The Hook Up may be too humble to toot his own horn, he upped a couple of dope stoner rock mixes recently. I'm having trouble searching for them, so I zipped them together for easy coppage.
I ride.
I ride.
good thing I wasn't asking who rides for the album art.Colour Haze was my shtt for a while a few months back:
and I can get down with Om and High on Fire in the right mood (and almost always w/ some Black Sabbath and Deep Purple).
Haven't heard much of the music so I can't comment in that respect... but damn, are these not some of the least appealing album covers to be grouped together in one post?
Another good band in this vein: Nitzinger, who had a few albums on Capitol and 20th Century. With a title like this, you can't go wrong: "Louisiana Cockfight" from their self-titled first album.
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