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Mixed Bag O' Rocks - A Devil Dick Mix / The Devils Music #29

Just a bunch of dumb rocks. Stuff I've been downloading for my own listening pleasure??? Mostly guitar rockers with a few twists. I think this is my 29th mix? Enjoy.


1 - Asia - Thunder Rider

12 - Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

Mixed Bag O' Rocks - A Devil Dick Mix / The Devils Music #29

Mithrandir - Magick E.P.

British NWOBHM band active in the early 1980s.
Members, Graham Gargiulo, Keith Billson, Paul Chester.

This weirdo is from 1982. Slightly inept and naive. You can tell these kids were just going for it the best they damn well could. It lacks any real power but makes up for it with sincerity and guts. I love this EP. Not the best studio production either but then again i can't imagine they had any real budget. This is what the infancy of Heavy Metal is all about for me. Kids doing it on their own and creating, trying the best they can to make some shit happen. In that way metal and punk aren't that far apart IMHO. Just different in subject matter and style of playing. Don't let the punks fool you, they all wanted to play guitar like Eddie VanHalen! hahahaha.....

Mithrandir - Magick E.P.

The Elephant's Memory - Jungle Gym AT The Zoo

I've always liked this tune and just picked up a cheapie copy. You're welcome.

The Elephant's Memory - Jungle Gym At The Zoo

The Mopptops - Our Lives

Heavy fuzz rocker from 1968? Sounds a bit later to me, maybe '72-ish.... Either way, it's a killer track w/ a message that still holds true today. Were these guys from Hawaii?
The weather here on the East Coast has been down right brutal of late so wherever you are reading this i hope you stay cool in more ways than one.... Prost!

The Mopptops - Our Lives

Rock Bottom - Easy To Be

Chill & mellow little guitar rocker from "Rock Bottom"..... I don't anything else about this.

Rock Bottom - Easy To Be

Garland Jeffreys - Wild In The Streets

For many many years i thought the Circle Jerks wrote this song....

Garland Jeffreys - Wild In The Streets

Unholy Swill - Satan Swill Santa / Armless, Legless

One of the most full on retarded bands of all time. I love it. Noise for the sake of noise.

Unholy Swill - Satan Swill Santa

Unholy Swill - Armless, Legless

Little Sammy Gaha - Heavy Head

Little Sammy Gaha was an expatriate Australian singer who used Paris as a home base for recording and touring Europe throughout the early-to-mid seventies. Although not French, he cut a string of singles, including the romping ruckus that is “Heavy Head” in Paris, so I consider him a kindred spirit and outsider joker in this pack of Frankish Rock tribes. This altogether hairy vocalist was given to strange promotional gag shots in ripped T-shirts, short pants offset with clashing women’s leggings and blue platform shoes. Hahahahaha... Li’l Sammy’s even licking an all-day sucker on the sleeve of this demented 45. With a guttural vocal alternating between Louis Armstrong and a laryngitis-afflicted Wolfman Jack as they both beat the flames off the seat of their respective pants, his delivery is pricelessly demented. The backing music to “Heavy Head” combines Ten Years After’s Utopian Woodstock descending riff from the quick parts of “I’d Love To Change The World” that keep charging over a stampede of drums accompanied by the most waka-jawaka-ing I’ve heard within any song outside of “Papa Was A Rolling Stone.” And since it’s a fairly long track, it gives L.S.G. the space to explore the multitude of ways he can beat his heavy head, describing its condition in a hundred ways until he comes to the conclusion: “Don’t worry if it comes off! / You can get another one! / It’s allllllllright!!” Yeah, he’s gotta head full of ideas driving him insane, running roughshod AND gettin’ trampled in the process, hahahaha...Gaha truly broke out of the box and decided to just spazz it out on the B-side for kicks.

I took this review by music_emporium off the discogs page for this release because it pretty much nails it.

Little Sammy Gaha - Heavy Head

Equus - Black Widow / The Desert Song

Unknown hard rocker from Equus. Year unknown.

PS - added the A side by Anon request.

Equus - Black Widow

Equus - The Desert Song

The Eldaros - Rock A Book

Rocking R&B number from 1958 by The Eldaros. Every time i type "Eldaros" my fucking computer changes it to "Elders". Foreshadowing to computers taking over the world me thinks...... They were from Syracuse NY and can read about them HERE; if you so desire....

The Eldaros - Rock A Book

Fargo - Abandon / Sooner Or Later

Fuzzy Garage rock from Fargo circa 1969. Dig it.

Fargo - Abaddon

Fargo - Sooner Or Later

Illinois Speed Press ‎– Get In The Wind (Vocal / Instrumental)

I don't know why this band doesn't get more love...?!? Heavy fuzz guitars and good strong vox make this a keeper for me. From 1968. Love the out of key guitar at the end of the solo. Almost as heavy as what Blue Cheer or Iron Butterfly were doing at the time yet no one cares about this band all that much. I guess the rest of the stuff isn't as heavy but it's still solid. Anyway here's the 45 w/ the Instrumental version for this that need that....

Illinois Speed Press - Get In The Wind - Vocal

Illinois Speed Press - Get In The Wind - Instrumental

Underground Ballon Corps ‎– Where Can I Go?

Hate. Riots. War. Where Can I Go??? I Gotta Get Away....

Underground Balloon Corps. - Where Can I Go?

Mike Malone ‎- Don't Lecture Me

Don't lecture me, why can't you see, I gotta be, what i wanna be, even though you think i never will....

Mike Malone - Don't Lecture Me

Roy Johnson And The Outlaws - Forgive Me Baby

Great funky lo-fi soul jam from Roy Johnson and the Outlaws. I have no idea who Mr. Johnson was/is, nor anything about his Outlaws, but i reckon he fashioned himself a James Brown wanna be.... Heh. I love this tune and slight ineptness and lo-fi sound. Dudes with some drinks and just jamming it out hard. This is one of the first 45's i picked up years ago when i started to think out of the box of record collecting and picking up things i knew nothing about but looked cool. I think i paid a dollar at a thrifty store. Score.

Roy Johnson And The Outlaws - Forgive Me Baby