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BROWN ACID The Nineteenth Trip is out worldwide October 31, 2024!
There is NO LIGHT at the end of this tunnel! BROWN ACID: The Nineteenth Trip fires ten more savage nails deep into the coffin of ‘60s psychedelic idealism. This series is THE premier top dog journey into the rarest and most wasted early local eruptions of heavy rock, unleashed at a time when harsh reality, human nature and disillusionment drove prevailing underground rock glimpses of a ‘better’ world into ever darker selfabsorbed comedowns. Mind expanding ’60s love energies transform into toxic aggression right before your ears! The great thing is that these moves are totally justified, ‘we are all one’ is cosmically good in theory but ‘get it while you can’ ends up perhaps better advice in the light of human history. Both of those angles of awareness can coexist, some of these bands deliver unrelenting sideways positive energy but they aren’t over-thinking it, they are youthfully driven by hunger for life and satisfying the undeniable urges their DNA thrusts upon them. Sonically, the results in the BROWN ACID series never fail to breathe hot and heavy, the guitars kill it every time, the variety of approaches these tracks take keep the scenery shifting into new places. The key element that makes this stuff so potent is that THEY (the bands) are in control. Captured genuinely with no compromise, right out of the gate. No doubt they had ambition with high hopes for the future when they laid down these primal efforts, the fact that they captured their energy so vividly at a moment in time when the only direction imaginable was UP creates a hard hitting life affirming subtext to the proceedings. That is the core energy of blues and rock and roll, dealing with the struggles of existence by flipping a gigantic ‘what the fuck’ high energy bird right in the face of the moronic defective reality these bands were born into. If you take this stuff too ‘seriously’ you are utterly missing the point, it is beyond analysis, it is life itself! No amount of thinking will get you there quicker! BROWN ACID: The Nineteenth Trip is scary… the bottomless pit of deranged vintage heavy rock the series presents continually expands over time… one deadly dose too many and you might be trapped in the bad trip loop forever… enjoy it or lose your mind!
DICK RABBIT “You Come On Like A Train” is the earliest recording on this ride, 1968 out of Bay City, Michigan, with cutting edge downer explosive heavy fuzz sludge intro moves and killer invasive riff damage akin to top level toxic early Blue Cheer. Keeping it extra real, this band are three biological brothers Gordon, Phil and Rich Thayer. In sync with the jaw dropping heavy guitar riff are terrific lyrics like “I can see things inside your brain”, “I can hear things I can’t see” and “I can see things I can’t touch… give it to me”… total bypass romance, cut to the chase girl grabber action with the cocky attitude only a young dude fresh on the hunt can pull off with no hint of stalker creepiness. To top it off the guitar break has full on echoing Jimi moves. This track resides in the perfect sweet spot where psychedelic action morphs into wasted proto downer hard rock. Dick Rabbit also had an impossibly rare second 45 issued in 1969 where they cover Donovan’s 1966 acid classic “The Trip” (spelled charmingly wrong as ‘Donavan’ on the label). Extra cred in my book for having such an outrageous band name for 1968!
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