Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip Due April 20
RidingEasy Records returns in April with another dose of scuzzer-fuzz and proto-everything on Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip. In collusion with Permanent Records in Los Angeles, the latest in the apparently-ongoing series of oh-so-delightfully-obscure 45RPM singles and lost odds and ends from the late ’60s and early ’70s deep-dives once more into the roots of what we think of today as heavy, and comes out with a collection worthy of collectors, as the raw buzz of opening cut “Leave It” by Kanaan — which you can stream below, because it’s a whole past-meets-the-future thing, man — makes as plain as the melting face on yonder assortment of skulls. Vibe, vibe, vibe. How long can they keep the streak going?
Call it ripe for the diggin’, and then dig in. PR wire info follows:
Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip compilation coming 4/20
Rare 60s-70s pre-metal, hard rock singles curated by L.A.’s Permanent Records & RidingEasy Records
L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records announce the upcoming release of the 4th edition in their celebrated compilation series of long-lost vintage 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid today with a premiere of the first track. Hear and share Kanaan’s “Leave It.”
If you thought we were getting close to the end of the Brown Acid series with our last Trip, you were dead wrong…we’re only just getting rolling. The well of privately released hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal 45s is deep and we are nowhere near tapped out. Most of these records were barely released and never properly distributed so they ain’t easy to find, but they’re out there if you’re willing to dig…and we aren’t afraid to get our hands dirty. Hard calluses have formed from handling the shovel and we’ve sifted through a lot of dirt, but we’ve dug up another ten tremendous records to share with all the heavy heads out there. This volume brings together eight insanely rare and skull-crushingly heavy 45s as well as two previously unreleased bangers.
You may remember the Zekes’ jaw dropper “Box” from the First Trip. If you don’t, you better go back and refresh your memory, you stoner. That song rips! And so does this previously unheard recording we legally obtained from the Beverly Hills records vaults. “Comin’ Back” is the longest tune we’ve yet to include on this series and it’s a full-on rager! The only surviving copy of this recording came to us on the original 1/4″ master tape from Hollywood’s long-defunct Demars & Duffy Music. We did our best to preserve the recording and we think you’ll appreciate the rawness.
There have been numerous groups named Bad Axe over the years, but the one you hear here is the baddest. This five-piece fresh outta high school kicked out this jam (and a few others) in a Chicago studio in 1973 just for the hell of it. As a garage band, they were previously named The Burlington Express and they went on to be known as Bitch, but these dudes hit their stride as Bad Axe and “Coachman” is their crowning achievement. It went completely unreleased until 2014 when Permanent Records issued it and “Poor Man, Run” as a limited edition 45 with a killer picture sleeve. It’s long out-of-print and only obtainable now on Brown Acid.
The rest of the records included on this volume vary in rarity, but at least two of them were virtually unknown until we discovered them. You’ll win the lottery before you find copies of all of the original 45s in even the best record stores. Many of the records included in this volume are owned only by the members of the bands and some of the band members don’t even have personal copies. That’s just how hard these guys hit it back in the day! We’re lucky some of these guys are still alive and well enough to give us permission to use their masters.
Artist: Various Artists
Album: Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip
Label: RidingEasy Records
Release Date: April 20th, 2017
01. Kanaan “Leave It”
02. Stone Garden “Oceans Inside Me”
03. Headstones “Carry Me On”
04. Wrath “Rock N’ Roll Fever”
05. Bungi “Numbers”
06. Erving Forbush “The Train”
07. Zekes “Comin’ Back” (previously unreleased)
08. Bad Axe “Coachman”
09. Ash “Warrant”
10. Axas “Lucifer”
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