Track List

Songs of The Dead
Midnight Ride
Devil’s Film Festival
Medici
Summer’s Comin’ Soon
Blind Man
Blue Skies Comin’
My Lady
Friends Or Lovers
Mind Trip
Concrete Jungle
If I’m Elected I will Not Serve

Parchment Farm History

Over the course of about five years beginning in late 1968, several musicians living in eastern Missouri rocked the area clubs and festivals with a mix of cover and heavy original songs. The band’s name, Parchment Farm, came from a song on Blue Cheer’s debut LP, “Vincebus Eruptum.”

Parchment Farm 1.0

Figure 1: L to R – Mike Watermann (drums), Paul Cockrum (guitar, vocals), Ace Williams (bass, vocals), Gary Reed (keyboards; RIP)

According to Mike Watermann, original drummer for Parchment Farm, their first gig was in late 1968.

Parchment Farm 1.0 was an opening act for the following:

Sons of Champlin, sometime in early August and/or November 26, 1969 at The Rainy Daze Club (Dates for Sons of Champlin shows are according to a post on The Rainy Daze Facebook page. That Parchment Farm 1.0 was an opening act is per Mike Watermann).

Brian Auger & Trinity on July 7, 1970 at The Rainy Daze Club (per Mike Watermann).

NOTE: Parchment Farm 1.0 played with another local band, Burlington Route, at The Rainy Daze Club on January 9, 1970.

 
Parchment Farm 2.0

Figure 2: L to R – Mike Dulany (drums, vocals; RIP), Paul Cockrum (guitar, vocals), Ace Williams (bass, vocals)

In early 1971, Mike Dulany (RIP) became the drummer and they were, now, a 3-piece band. The development of original songs ramped up and they began playing and recording them right away.

Parchment Farm 2.0 was an opening act for the following:

ZZ Top on July 29, 1972 at the Airway Drive-In Theater, St. Louis, MO.

Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes on October 14, 1971 at the Shrine Mosque in Springfield, MO.

Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes on January 29, 1972 at the Columbia, MO National Guard

Velvet Underground & Brownsville Station on August 29, 1971 at Fun Valley Lake in Pacific, MO

Parchment Farm 3.0

Sometime in late 1972, Mike Lusher became the drummer and the band added a keyboardist, Cliff King. They expanded the repertoire by playing songs by The Moody Blues, Yes, etc. At some point after February, 1973, Cliff left the band and was replaced by Mike “Scotty” Scott, a young Keith Emerson follower that owned a Moog and played the flute.

Parchment Farm 3.0 (presumably with Mike Scott) was an opening act for the following:

Canned Heat, The Hollies, and Rare Earth on Sunday, May 27, 1973 in Evansville, Indiana (as reported in the Evansville Press on May 28, 1973)

REO Speedwagon on August 18, 1973 at the Rollins Music Festival near Villa Ridge, MO.

Parchment Farm disbanded in late 1973.

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TRACK LIST –
Grapple “Ethereal Genesis”
San Antonio, Texas 1969

Image “Witchcraft 71”
Illinois 1971

Stone Hedge “Smokey Bear”
Battle Creek, MI 1972

Crossfire “I Gotta Move”
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1975

Primevil “Too Dead To Live”
Hancock County, Indiana 1972

Side B
Pegasus “Ready To Rave”
Baltimore, Maryland 1972

Bob Mabe & the Outcast “I’m Lonely”
Galveston, Texas 1969

Truth & Janey “Around and Around”
Ames, Iowa 1973

Glory “High School Letter”
San Diego, California 1973

Strychnine “Jack The Ripper”
Cleveland, Ohio 1978

Brown Acid 17

Lucky number 17? You better believe it. We here at Brown Acid have been scouring the highways and byways of America for even more hidden stashes of psych/garage/proto-punk madness from the so-called Aquarian Age. There’s no flower power here, though—just acid casualties, rock stompers and major freakouts. As always, the songs have been officially licensed, and all the artists get paid.

Kicking off this trip, Grapple’s “Ethereal Genesis” is a heavy psych gem from 1969 written by J. Bruce Svoboda, a.k.a. Jay Bruce, formerly of The Hangmen and The Five Canadians (who were actually the same San Antonio band). The latter’s 1966 garage favorite “Writing on the Wall” has been endlessly covered, but Grapple were never heard from again.

With a guitar riff that blatantly rips off Sabbath’s “Black Sabbath,” Image’s mostly instrumental lysergic obscurity “Witchcraft ’71” (originally unveiled that very year) also boasts a horror-movie organ intro, a voodoo drum break and some championship chanting. Private press heads might recall late Image drummer John Beke from his ’80s reemergence with country rockers Crossfyre.

Stone Hedge were a seven-piece rock band out of Michigan with a penchant for Creedence and anthropomorphism. “Smokey Bear” is their 1972 tribute to the official mascot of the U.S. Forest Services—not to mention the A side of their sole single—and it recalls the kind of organ-drenched swamp jam that soundtracked many a Burt Reynolds flick back in the day.

If you think being a Southern rock band from Milwaukee doesn’t make much sense, that’s probably why Crossfire changed their sound along with their name—to Bad Boy—after signing with United Artists. Bad Boy’s severely underappreciated second album, Back To Back, is a 1978 hard rock jewel, but you can hear their boogie-woogie roots on this rare 1975 single.

With a band name like Primevil and song title like “Too Dead To Live,” you probably expect some gnarly proto-metal riffage. Instead, you a get a harmonica-drenched, soul-infused rock rave-up from 1972. Primevil would release their sole LP two years later: Entitled Smokin’ Bats at Campton’s, it’s a reference to their trusty singer, harp player (and bat smoker?), Dave Campton.

Brown Acid regulars already know Pegasus from their appearance with “The Sorcerer” on our Seventh Trip. “Ready to Rave” is the flipside to that 1972 single, in which they explain how they like their whiskey cold and their women hot. It’s another killer glimpse of what might have been if these one-and-done Baltimore hard rockers had been able to keep it together.

One of two obscure singles released by Texas musician Bobby Mabe in 1969 (the other appears under the name The Outcasts), “I’m Lonely” delivers a heavy dose of vocal soul to the otherwise psych-garage presentation. Fans of fellow Houstonians the Moving Sidewalks—whom Bobby and his Outcasts may well have gigged with—will especially dig this one.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, may not be known as a cultural mecca, but they did give us Truth & Janey. This deadly hard rock trio delivered their holy grail full-length, No Rest for the Wicked, back in 1976. “Around and Around” is a Chuck Berry cover that originally appeared on a 1973 single the band released under the earlier name Truth.

Originally released in 1973, “High School Letter” is the debut single from San Diego rock squad Glory. This infectious bonehead cruncher features future Beat Farmer Jerry Raney and the original rhythm section of Iron Butterfly in bassist Greg Willis and drummer Jack Pinney. Glory is what they got up to after their former bandmates left for L.A.’s garden of Eden.

“Jack the Ripper” is a mercilessly bootlegged Cleveland classic from 1978 with a serrated punk edge and vocals that recall Mick Blood of Aussie savages the Lime Spiders. Or maybe it’s the other way around—the Lime Spiders formed the year after Strychnine carved off this lethal paean to the infamous Whitechapel slasher of olde.

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