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Original Release / RidingEasy / EZRDR-65
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Artist: Various
Album: Brown Acid: The Second Trip (2016, RidingEasy)
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Year: 2016
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RIAA Radar Status: SAFE
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Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
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Avg Bit Rate: 320 kbps
Posted by: smallpaul
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Musical history is littered with bands that never got heard outside their immediate circle. It’s a fact of life in this creative art and perhaps a shocking statistic if one was to ever collate any evidence.
It is therefore great news to see that once again Riding Easy Records have again delved deep into the bargain bins of yesteryear to dig up some real gems that have been lost in the mists of time for Brown Acid : The Second Trip. It’s almost like a form of archaeology and depending on your taste and infatuation with music, an invaluable source of discovery.
Some of the names here may even seem familiar but that will only be through those whispered voices that you hear at three in the morning after one doob too many and someone speaks of a mysterious song they once heard. Of course, in these days of immediate satisfaction through Spotify and YouTube, you can often find these songs with little issue which in itself is satisfying in some respects. If you look from a different point of view it sort of spoils the whole crate digging nature of discovery and it is testament to Riding Easy that they find songs which you would rarely find elsewhere. This is the real hidden stuff at the bottom of the barrel. The true gold.
Kicking off with a true lost classic in Ash’s ‘Midnight Witch’, it is obvious straight away that we are firmly entrenched in that period of the 70’s when long hair, long beards and wide trousers were de rigeur. Whilst the figureheads of such a scene were laying waste to hotels, groupies and concert halls, bands such as Ash were trying to make a break out of their local circuit with the extent of their success relying on a regional fan-base. It’s the same for lesser known (read unknown) fare such as Sweet Crystal whose funky ‘Warlords’ rides along on it’s in your face Hammond, Spiney Norman’s unbeatable ‘Bell Park Loon’ and Buck’s ‘Long Hot Highway’. It’s like a parallel world where you feel like you know these artists and songs yet even a simple Google search will throw up relatively little information.
One could argue the merits of such a compilation as perhaps a waste of time as this was music that never sold in the first place so why release it again now? That’s to miss the point of the whole exercise and besides the music actually being fantastic, the album serves another purpose in helping document music history. It’s all too easy to follow the lines through Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Oasis but here is the underbelly, the music which was made by real people believing in what they were doing and just never getting the break. It sounds fresh, exciting and vital too and helps join the dots for a whole other side of this thing called rock and roll.
Track Listing
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[01/10] Midnight Witch (Ash) (4:05)
[08/10] Long Hot Highway (Buck) (3:57)
[04/10] TAKE IT! (Crossfield) (4:32)
[06/10] Silence Of The Morning (Glass Sun) (5:15)
[09/10] Show Stopper (Iron Knowledge) (3:33)
[03/10] Rock and Roll Man (Raving Maniac) (2:09)
[10/10] Daybreak (Sonny Hugg) (2:56)
[05/10] Bell Park Loon (Spiny Normen) (4:05)
[02/10] Warlords (Sweet Crystal) (4:30)
[07/10] Love To You (Volt Rush Band) (2:43)
Total playing time: 37:45
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