Post by marty on Jan 29, 2019 2:38:22 GMT
Hey y’all,
1973
It’s time.
While most people were listening to Crockodile Rock, my bro Tim came home from the local head shop “Crystal Ship”, with The Blve Oyster Cvlt’s new LP, Tyranny and Mvtation! It was revolutionary. I remember cutting up the album sleeve and put the front on my headboard, and the back on my poster board. Seepage from deep, black, and brittle... I was in 8th grade, my oldest brothers had graduated from high school, so it was just Tim and I, still at home. I remember loving T and M even more than the first record, we wore out several copies, the first year or two. I still love it. At first my faves were TRATB and Hot Rails, but the song that stood the test of time, with me, is Teen Archer. I always loved how the songs blended into one another, the howling, toilet flushing, noise between Od’d And Hot Rails, etc. And while I dont listen to Wings Wetted Down, much, anymore, it is so creepy cool, and totally contributed to my tinnitus, I remember falling asleep with the 8 track on loop and headphones, on blast.
Tim had started playing guitar, and his best friend also played, and was really good. When Guitars That Destroyed The World came out, later that year, Tims friend bought a White SG and customized it just like Bucks and learned that version of Bucks Boogie, note for note. It took months, but he did it. He could also play it on bass, and used to do so when their band “Rainbow Bridge” got gigs. They played Stairway, and Cities On Flame. They played at my 8th grade end of year dance, and again at Freshman Homecoming, in the fall of 73.
By then, BOC were famous, in my hometown, enough for my high school booster club to partner with the head shops and a promoter to bring BOC to play at our local Armory, in December. The opener was a group callled “The Flock”, sort of Jazz fusion with a violin player. Our first victim. I remember having a wine pouch full of whiskey, and the music was so loud we HAD to sit on the floor, just to keep from being blown out the door. I have some pictures from that show, I’ll try to post them. Courtesy of my good friend Jeff Turley, who was there but I wouldn’t meet him for 20 years. I wish I could remember the set list, for Ralph, but all I remember is that they played 3 or 4 songs from each record, including the upcoming Secret Treaties, and BTBW and Bucks Boogie. (We had been yelling for Bucks Boogie during The Flock’s set, and the lead singer yelled back, “wanna Boogie? HERE! And picked his nose and flicked. So, they had to go.
1973
It’s time.
While most people were listening to Crockodile Rock, my bro Tim came home from the local head shop “Crystal Ship”, with The Blve Oyster Cvlt’s new LP, Tyranny and Mvtation! It was revolutionary. I remember cutting up the album sleeve and put the front on my headboard, and the back on my poster board. Seepage from deep, black, and brittle... I was in 8th grade, my oldest brothers had graduated from high school, so it was just Tim and I, still at home. I remember loving T and M even more than the first record, we wore out several copies, the first year or two. I still love it. At first my faves were TRATB and Hot Rails, but the song that stood the test of time, with me, is Teen Archer. I always loved how the songs blended into one another, the howling, toilet flushing, noise between Od’d And Hot Rails, etc. And while I dont listen to Wings Wetted Down, much, anymore, it is so creepy cool, and totally contributed to my tinnitus, I remember falling asleep with the 8 track on loop and headphones, on blast.
Tim had started playing guitar, and his best friend also played, and was really good. When Guitars That Destroyed The World came out, later that year, Tims friend bought a White SG and customized it just like Bucks and learned that version of Bucks Boogie, note for note. It took months, but he did it. He could also play it on bass, and used to do so when their band “Rainbow Bridge” got gigs. They played Stairway, and Cities On Flame. They played at my 8th grade end of year dance, and again at Freshman Homecoming, in the fall of 73.
By then, BOC were famous, in my hometown, enough for my high school booster club to partner with the head shops and a promoter to bring BOC to play at our local Armory, in December. The opener was a group callled “The Flock”, sort of Jazz fusion with a violin player. Our first victim. I remember having a wine pouch full of whiskey, and the music was so loud we HAD to sit on the floor, just to keep from being blown out the door. I have some pictures from that show, I’ll try to post them. Courtesy of my good friend Jeff Turley, who was there but I wouldn’t meet him for 20 years. I wish I could remember the set list, for Ralph, but all I remember is that they played 3 or 4 songs from each record, including the upcoming Secret Treaties, and BTBW and Bucks Boogie. (We had been yelling for Bucks Boogie during The Flock’s set, and the lead singer yelled back, “wanna Boogie? HERE! And picked his nose and flicked. So, they had to go.