Permanent Records and RidingEasy teamed up with Dillon from Noble Records to get this legendary Proto-Punk private pressing repressed!
George Brigman – Jungle Rot
Black Vinyl (with 8 page booklet)
George Brigman recorded Jungle Rot, an underground classic, at only 18 years old. He was massively influenced by Tony McPhee of the Groundhogs, Captain Beefheart, Harvey Mandel, and Johnny Winter. Jungle Rot is a bizarre, raw, brutal, acid fueled, fuzz guitar ripper! Original copies fetch $1,000+.
Recommended for fans of Groundhogs, the Stooges, Blue Cheer.
This reissue by Noble Records includes an 8 page booklet with an interview with George Brigman.
Released in 1975 by Baltimore teenager George Brigman, ‘Jungle Rot’ was a self-produced slab of molten fuzz that had no chance of gaining an audience before the punk revolution. Conceived as a tribute to British psych-blues band the Groundhogs and their leader Tony McPhee, the album takes that bands’ acid-fried boogie and warps it with primitive recoding techniques and the fevered isolation in which Brigman worked. The title track alone with its fuzz-damaged guitar pan and punishing four-on-the-floor rhythms is worth the price of admission, yet the rest of the album delivers equally inspired wallops of technical brilliance and blown-out acid shred. Predictably, the few hundred copies of the album that Brigman pressed quickly fell through the cracks and were promptly forgotten-until a music collector found a copy at a flea market in Maryland and started making noise about it. Reissued on disc for the first time in 2005, this is not only a lost classic, its one of the loudest, rawest, and most uncompromisingly great albums of the ’70s. Brigman might have been a self-confessed Groundhogs fan, but this buzz saw concerto sounds like it was created by Iggy Pop’s more demented younger brother. Sparkling new vinyl version from the original tapes, mastered by John Golden; the sound quality exceeds the original (poorly mastered and pressed) release in every way. Comes with a color insert, and exact copies of labels and cover art. Hear Brigman sing-with an ear-to-ear sneer from beneath an avalanche of distortion-“Remember what your father said / When the weathers hot / Talking about all the young girls / Beware the jungle rot”, and you’ll wonder why Jungle Rot hasn’t been shouted from the roof tops in every Blue Cheer, Groundhogs and Stooges-loving ghetto the last three decades.
