The Kruisers - C'Mon Sweet Baby / Karen

A side is a pretty crude riff on Bo Diddley.... I read somewhere that someone called it "punk". I wouldn't go that far but teenage ineptness comes to mind, which is fine by me. I LOVE that sort of thing. Couple kids in the garage that stole a few of Dad's Pabst Blue Ribbons and cranking up their Sears Silvertone guitars and amps and going for it. The flip is a try at a more pop sound but it still comes off as crude and teenage. Good single. ==== The Kruisers - C'Mon Sweet Baby ==== The Kruisers - Karen

Yorko & The Greek Strings ‎– Snake Dance / Melancholie

Yorko & The Greek Strings ‎– Snake Dance / Melancholie

Label:
MGM Records ‎– K13751

Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single

Country:
US

Released:
1967

Genre:
Rock, Folk, World, & Country

Style:
Garage Rock

Tracklist
A Snake Dance 1:50
B Melancholie 2:06

devildick April 11, 2020

Pretty cool / weird 45.... Sorta exotica garage rock. A side sounds like "she's about a mover" but snake dance over top. Some guitar and big drums in spots... B side is like a B-grade 60's movie (porn?) soundtrack, kinda light psych.... Dig it

Yorko & The Greek Strings - Melancholie

Yorko & The Greek Strings - Snake Dance

The Flock - Hold On To My Mind

2 minuets of pure 1966 garage psych with some fuzz guitar. underrated. seems nobody gives this band any love. i guess because they got so proggy and weird with the violin on the albums, but these singles are great.

The Flock - Hold On To My Mind

Moloch - Cocaine Katy - The Terrorizing Of Miss Nancy Jane

Been having some shit luck around here lately. Spent all day yesterday dealing with a flooded basement where we lost a lot of stuff; records, tapes, 8-tracks, reel to reels, magazines, fanzines, flyers, some electronics, etc..... spent the morning mopping up and throwing stuff out.... Ugh. Anyway, i needed to take a break so i decided to throw a track up on the blog and here it is. A guitar rocker from heavy blues based psych band Moloch called "Cocaine Katy" on the Booger Records label from 1972. I guess the Moloch album is fairly rare (I don't own it) but i have no idea how rare this thing is or if it even is rare. But it's a cool tune with plenty of jamming ax action. Enjoy, I'm going to go take a nap....

Here is the low-down on Moloch:

Moloch emerged from the fertile music scene in Memphis, Tennessee in 1969. Led by guitarist Lee Baker (who had played with the Memphis Blazers throughout the decade, toured with the Mar-Keys and is often called ‘the greatest guitarist you’ve never heard of’), they gigged alongside the MC5 and the Stooges and were offered the opportunity to make an album for local Stax subsidiary Enterprise in 1970. Recorded at the legendary Ardent studios with local producer Don Nix (a collaborator with Lonnie Mack, Furry Lewis, Freddy King, Albert King, Delaney & Bonnie, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers and others, and often credited as a key architect of the ‘Memphis Sound’), they laid down a rich stew of 12-bar blues peppered with fiery guitar, fat organ and taut drumming. Though the bulk of the songs were penned by Nix (including the original version of Goin' Down, later to become a blues standard covered by Eric Clapton, Freddie King, Deep Purple, Pearl Jam and others), the sound is unmistakably theirs, and betrays the influence of the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Blue Cheer as well as blues musicians like Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sleepy John Estes and Bukka White (all of whom Baker had played with at the legendary Memphis Country Blues Festivals of the late 60s).

The album was a triumph, but failed to sell, prompting the band to split in 1971. The following year, Baker assembled another version of Moloch (featuring bassist Michael Jones, later to play with Talking Heads) and released a one-off 45 on a tiny local label called Booger. This featured even more vicious guitar than the LP, but was doomed to obscurity from the start. Baker went on to play with fellow local hero Alex Chilton (whose Big Star were to suffer a similar fate to Moloch on another Stax subsidiary, Ardent), contributing guitar to his legendary Third / Sister Lovers LP and the Like Flies On Sherbet album later in the decade. Baker also formed Mudboy & the Neutrons with friends Jim Dickinson, Sid Selvidge and Jimmy Crosthwait (dubbed ‘the great band that nobody can find’ by Bob Dylan), and collaborated extensively with pioneering blues guitarist Furry Lewis. He was still prominent on the Memphis music scene when he was senselessly murdered in September 1996, and it is to be hoped that this reissue will bring his astonishing guitar player to a wider audience.

PS. i've added the flip per anon request. here ya go!

Moloch - Cocaine Katy

Moloch - The Terrorizing Of Miss Nancy Jane

Punishment Of Luxury - Puppet Life - The Demon

Some pretty tight punky progy metal-ish tunes from 1978... Check out that DOOM breakdown in The Demon @ around 2:26 and tell me these guys never listened to Black Sabbath. I originally bought a copy of this in the early 80's and have no idea where that copy went. I turned this one up a while back and glad i did... This is some cool stuff right here. The pics on the back always reminded me of the Alex Harvey Band.... I never owned the LP from 1979 but here is a vid of a different version of Puppet Life... Still heavier than your average punk...!




Punishment Of Luxury - Puppet Life

Punishment Of Luxury - The Demon

The Tiki's - Stop - Look - Listen - Cream In My Coffee

Today we get a carefree little garage surf type rocker. Nothing hard or edgy about it but a nice little nugget of early 60's pop rock surfer culture. Cream in my Coffee even has a little blues and soul vibe going on. I coul dsee these tunes being in some B Grade Beach movie. Cool little 45. Dig it!

The Tiki's - Stop - Look - Listen

The Tiki's - Cream In My Coffee

The Tracers - She Said Yeah - Watch Me

Hey Mr. Red Blues Boy are you listening....???

Man-o-man what 45 this is!

Some serious 1966 Texas by way of North Dakota punk fuzz blasting on this thing.

Can you say ATTITUDE????

The Tracers - She Said Yeah

The Tracers - Watch Me