Brown Acid “The Sixteenth Trip”

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AVAILABLE June 30, 2023.

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Brown Acid “The Sixteenth Trip”

Ships by June 30 2023

COLOR VINYL – $23.99
(we don’t know what color it will be…but it will be color)
COMPACT DISC – $9.99

Sixteen trips might fry the fragile psyche of your average teenager, but us hoary old heads at Brown Acid boiled our brain pans long ago! As such, weโ€™re bringing you EVEN MORE hard rock, heavy psych, and garage rock rarities from the North American wasteland of the 1970s. From L.A. to Youngstown, OH, from Toronto to Charlotte, The Sixteenth Trip has got you covered. As always, original copies of these 45s would cost you a pretty pennyโ€”if you could find โ€™em in the first place. And by now you know the drill: This ainโ€™t no bootleg. All songs are officially licensed.

Our 16th installment kicks off with โ€œShuckinโ€™ and Jiving,โ€ a seven-minute power jam from L.A.โ€™s kings of garage psych, the Seeds. The song appeared as a single in 1972 with โ€œYou Took Me By Surpriseโ€ on the flipside. It was the only release on Productions Unlimited, a label created by (or for) the Seeds at the tail end of their late โ€™60s/early โ€™70s run as Sky Saxon and the Seeds. Get shucked!

Very little is known about the band Nothing, beyond the fact that โ€œYoung Generationโ€ is the flip of โ€œSittinโ€™ On Top Of The World,โ€ one of four singles released by the ASG label out of Cincinnati in the mid-70s. What we can tell you for sure is that โ€œYoung Generationโ€ is a funk-injected hard rock banger of Buckeye State proportions, complete with what sounds like anonymous oralโ€ฆ

Macbeth released their one and only 45 in 1978, with the steamrolling โ€œFreight Trainโ€ as the B-side to โ€œDidnโ€™t Mean (To Come This Far).โ€ Boasting a thick-ass riff, a tasty stereo-panned guitar solo and at least one space laser sound effect, this one should satisfy fans of Blue Cheer and Grand Funk alike. Macbethโ€™s bassist, Ned Meloni, went on to play with UFO guitarist Paul Chapman, Virgin Steele guitarist Jack Starr and do a brief stint with doom legends Pentagram.

As it turns out, Saturday night ainโ€™t just for fighting. One-and-done Canadian psych-rock warriors Sarawest will tell you itโ€™s also for gettinโ€™ โ€œHot & Heavy,โ€ and theyโ€™re not wrong. This swirling 1974 freak rock fuzz-bomb will get the party started every time. And that porno guitar? Outta sight.

After releasing their full-length debut, Cuttinโ€™ Loose, in 1976, North Carolina rockers Brotherhood Of Peace shortened their name to BOP and dropped this single two years later. โ€œFeel The Heat (In The Driverโ€™s Seat)โ€ is freeway funk-rock in the classic Southern style.

Released in 1969 as the flip to โ€œSchool Dazeโ€ (which opened The Eighth Trip in high style), Attackโ€™s “Dreamโ€ was written by Thom Strasz. Thatโ€™s the same St. Clair Shores, Michigan, resident who penned the highly sought-after garage-rock diamond โ€œCity Of Peopleโ€ under the name The Illusions in โ€™66. And this acid-drenched rocker rocks hard.

Brown Acid favorite Marty Soski rides again! After appearing on our third & eighth trips with his band Inside Experience and the fifth with Lanceโ€™s โ€œFireball,โ€ the Ohio guitarist/vocalist graces our 16th with โ€œMarilyn,โ€ the 1976 A-side to โ€œFireball.โ€ This time, our man unwinds a psychedelic threnody to the artist formerly known as Norma Jean Mortenson, perhaps inspired by Elton Johnโ€™s then-recent โ€œCandle In The Wind.โ€

Formed by three brothersโ€”David, Bruce and Barry Flynn, all GM factory workersโ€”along with organist Tom Applegate, The Headstones (also known as simply Headstone) lent their 1974 garage boogie โ€œCarry Me Onโ€ to The Fourth Trip. This time, the Midwest psych rockers return with their killer 1975 instrumental โ€œSnake Dance.โ€ You can hear echoes of this particular guitar style in the recent work of Swedish adventure rock overlords Hรคllas.

The band Clinton mightโ€™ve been from Pennsylvania, but that didnโ€™t stop them from writing about New York City. โ€œMidnight In New Yorkโ€ is the flipside to their sole single, 1976โ€™s โ€œFalling Behind.โ€ Stylistically and thematically, itโ€™s not unlike something famous New Yawker Ace Frehley wouldโ€™ve written for KISS around the same time.

 

TRACK LIST

Seeds “Shuckin’ and Jivin'”

Nothing “Young Generation”

Macbeth “Freight Train”

Sarawestย “Saturday (Hot & Heavy)”

Brotherhood Of Peace “Feel The Heat (In the Driver’s Seat)”

Attack “Dreams”

SECRET TRACK

Lance “Marilyn”
Headstones “Snake Dance”

Clinton “Midnight In New Yorkโ€

 

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