Brown Acid “The Sixteenth Trip”
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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, weโre 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 pennyโif you could find โem in the first place. And by now you know the drill: This ainโt no bootleg. All songs are officially licensed.
Our 16th installment kicks off with โShuckinโ and Jiving,โ a seven-minute power jam from L.A.โs kings of garage psych, the Seeds. The song appeared as a single in 1972 with โYou 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 โ60s/early โ70s run as Sky Saxon and the Seeds. Get shucked!
Very little is known about the band Nothing, beyond the fact that โYoung Generationโ is the flip of โSittinโ 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 โYoung Generationโ is a funk-injected hard rock banger of Buckeye State proportions, complete with what sounds like anonymous oralโฆ
Macbeth released their one and only 45 in 1978, with the steamrolling โFreight Trainโ as the B-side to โDidnโt 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. Macbethโs 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 ainโt just for fighting. One-and-done Canadian psych-rock warriors Sarawest will tell you itโs also for gettinโ โHot & Heavy,โ and theyโre 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. โFeel The Heat (In The Driverโs Seat)โ is freeway funk-rock in the classic Southern style.
Released in 1969 as the flip to โSchool Dazeโ (which opened The Eighth Trip in high style), Attackโs “Dreamโ was written by Thom Strasz. Thatโs the same St. Clair Shores, Michigan, resident who penned the highly sought-after garage-rock diamond โCity Of Peopleโ under the name The Illusions in โ66. 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 Lanceโs โFireball,โ the Ohio guitarist/vocalist graces our 16th with โMarilyn,โ the 1976 A-side to โFireball.โ This time, our man unwinds a psychedelic threnody to the artist formerly known as Norma Jean Mortenson, perhaps inspired by Elton Johnโs then-recent โCandle In The Wind.โ
Formed by three brothersโDavid, Bruce and Barry Flynn, all GM factory workersโalong with organist Tom Applegate, The Headstones (also known as simply Headstone) lent their 1974 garage boogie โCarry Me Onโ to The Fourth Trip. This time, the Midwest psych rockers return with their killer 1975 instrumental โSnake Dance.โ You can hear echoes of this particular guitar style in the recent work of Swedish adventure rock overlords Hรคllas.
The band Clinton mightโve been from Pennsylvania, but that didnโt stop them from writing about New York City. โMidnight In New Yorkโ is the flipside to their sole single, 1976โs โFalling Behind.โ Stylistically and thematically, itโs not unlike something famous New Yawker Ace Frehley wouldโve 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
Clinton “Midnight In New Yorkโ