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Frydee Clear Blue Sky

Posted in Bootleg Theater on March 29th, 2013 by JJ Koczan

For the life of me I have no idea why I haven’t bought this album yet. The 1971 self-titled debut from British heavy bluesers Clear Blue Sky. Roger Dean cover. Vertigo Records. Fuzz into oblivion. Really, I have no excuse. Right up there with your Jamuls and your Aunt Marys and your Chicken Shacks. I’ll get there one of these days. Till then, this is “Journey to the Inside of the Sun, Pt. A: Sweet Leaf.” No relation to the Sabbath track of the same name, I guess, which would surface later that year on Master of Reality. Everyone had reefer on the brain, I suppose.

In a few minutes, I’m going to head out to the St. Vitus bar in Brooklyn to catch Floor with Thrones. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while and with the well-timed announcement earlier this week that they’ll put out a new album, all the more so. Last time I recall them coming through was summer 2010, so with the added potential for new material live, it’s the way to go.

That’s tonight, and I’m stoked. Tomorrow, it’s down to Philly to catch SuperVoid, Clamfight, Borracho and Been Obscene at an early show at Kung Fu Necktie. Been Obscene, who came all the way from Austria to tour the West Coast, will have only done three shows here in the Northeast — they had SuperVoid and Borracho with them — so it’s kind of a rare opportunity to bask in some European heavy psych relatively close to home. Should make for an excellent weekend all around.

Reviews of those shows, the new Moss album and hopefully the new Serpent Throne next week. It was nice this week to bang out a couple real, dug-in reviews (Shroud Eater, Shallow Grave, Beastwars). I’ve been feeling kind of overwhelmed by the pile of stuff to be done lately, so I was glad to really give some attention to acts who I felt deserved it. If you took any of those on, I hope they weren’t too onerous.

To that end, I’ve been debating pulling back on the detail in some of the reviews. I’m never sure how many people are reading, and I wonder if it wouldn’t do better to try and focus more on overall description than the minute stuff, so that someone might actually read it front to back? I could probably fit more than one in my daily schedule that way too, and get through stuff faster so I don’t have people waiting for months and I don’t have to feel like a jerk for at least some of the stuff I don’t get to. There’s a balance to be struck there, is all I’m saying, and I might try to put some effort into striking it one of these coming weeks. Probably not next week though, what with the live reviews.

In the meantime, it’s off to what I’m sure will be a packed out Vitus bar and a twofer rocking weekend even before the Game of Thrones season premiere on Sunday night. In between, I’ll be checking in/nerding out on the forum and I hope you’ll feel free to do the same. See you there and back here Monday for riffy hooliganizing.

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