Brown Acid “The Fourth Trip”
Release date 4/20/17
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Stream Brown Acid – The Fourth Trip
If you thought we were getting close to the end of the Brown Acid series with our last Trip, you were dead wrongโฆweโre only just getting rolling.ย The well of privately released hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal 45s is deep and we are nowhere near tapped out.ย Most of these records were barely released and never properly distributed so they ainโt easy to find, but theyโre out there if youโre willing to digโฆand we arenโt afraid to get our hands dirty.ย Hard calluses have formed from handling the shovel and weโve sifted through a lot of dirt, but weโve dug up another ten tremendous records to share with all the heavy heads out there.ย This volume brings together eight insanely rare and skull-crushingly heavy 45s as well as two previously unreleased bangers.
You may remember the Zekesโ jaw dropper โBoxโ from the First Trip.ย If you donโt, you better go back and refresh your memory, you stoner.ย That song rips!ย And so does this previously unheard recording we’ve legally obtained from the Beverly Hills Records vaults.ย โComin Backโ is the longest tune weโve yet to include on this series and itโs a full-on rager!ย The only surviving copy of this recording came to us on the original 1/4โ master tape from Hollywoodโs long-defunct Demars & Duffy Music.ย We did our best to preserve the recording and we think youโll appreciate the rawness.
There have been numerous groups named Bad Axe over the years, but the one you hear here is the baddest.ย This five-piece fresh outta high school kicked out this jam (and a few others) in a Chicago studio in 1973 just for the hell of it.ย As a garage band, they were previously named The Burlington Express and they went on to be known as Bitch, but these dudes hit their stride as Bad Axe and โCoachmanโ is their crowning achievement.ย It went completely unreleased until 2014 when Permanent Records issued it and โPoor Man, Runโ as a limited edition 45 with a killer picture sleeve.ย Itโs long out-of-print and only obtainable now on Brown Acid.
The rest of the records included on this volume vary in rarity, but at least two of them were virtually unknown until we discovered them.ย Youโll win the lottery before you find copies of all of the original 45s in even the best record stores.ย Many of the records included in this volume are owned only by the members of the bands and some of the band members donโt even have personal copies.ย Such a bummer.
Anyhow, plug in, turn up, and freak outโฆthis is what RocknRoll is all about.
Side A:
Kanaan – Leave It
Daingerfield, Texasย 1969
Stone Garden – Oceans Inside Me
Lewiston, Idahoย 1969
Headstones – Carry Me On
Columbus, Ohioย 1975
Wrath – Rock’n’Roll Fever
Canton, Ohioย 1975
Bungi – Numbers
Appleton, Wisconsinย 1972
Side B:
Zekes – Comin Back (previously unreleased)
Los Angeles, California ย 1970
Bad Axe – Coachman
Chicago, Illinoisย 1973
Ash – Warrant
Melbourne, Australia ย 1970
Axas – Lucifer
Logansport, Indianaย 1975