What are you listening to? 2025

on the right board this time!
here we find our "What are you listening to? 2025" thread, wherein we enthuse our muse, open a window to our listening routines & contexts, celebrate cover art through the ages, etc

so, yesterday i gave lee rockey's "music" LP a spin: https://i.discogs.com/1nynurbzgPNrGAkWVhYmXw7ttPH6Z-Z2sR3E-Z6EEY4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:398/w:398/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkxOTY5/NC0xMTcyODU2MjU5/LmpwZWc.jpeg which is luminous gloopy free improv, like a less droney, more effervescent taj mahal travellers, or a bucolic corsano/yeh thing.
this morning i am jamming TOAH DYNAMIC's "movement" LP cos i need more half-assed shambling DIY folk hip-hop in my life https://i.discogs.com/kWmezfS1KGKCZdyTwq4nR0Xv8wVEnF4tWoweYAhgsAo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:550/w:550/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzNTM1/My0xMjg4MDE3NzQ5/LmpwZWc.jpeg

I was wondering if I needed to start this thread since i had for the last couple of years i think. So glad somebody did.

So, stacks of that hard rock stoner stuff from the turn of the 70s. A bit of reggae including Dadamah , Dennis Bovell's 4th Street Orchestra, some electric blues. Santana. Hendrix etc.
Some titles I got from a rermegacorp £5 sale.
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Might be more specific when i get up.

Dadawah is the reggae guy, Dadamah were a post-punk experimental band. I have cos by both within a couple of feet of here.

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Angular avant-prog from the Rermegacorp buy.sounded interesting in their description. I think I may have previous lp Hen's Teeth somewhere too.

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fusion era Latin jazz stuff live in Japan. Very electric

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1st lp by California desert rock band. I read that one of the first lps that guitarist Josh Homme bought was Iggy & The Stooges' Raw Power which confirms, or slightly alters what I'd taken to be an audible influence. I think I would have plunked for the earlier lp Fun House being in there though but Raw Power remains one of Homme's fav lps.

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fvrom 1972 by inflouential electric blues guitarist. I'm hearing a lot more organ than the horns listed on the sleeve. Pretty good set though.

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recent Dr Bird reissue of this set which has the version of the Peace and Love image shown here as the sole cover era. This image is based on a photo that was the cover of the original lp release.
Have mainly listened to that set which is loose music heavily based in the Nyabinghi drumming.

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2020 pairing of the heavy folk influenced studio lp and the legal bootleg lp taken from recordings from the tour supporting it.
Hadn't listened to the studio lp in an age and it is deeply intense. I was at some of the Uk dates that Feel Good Now the live lp was recorded at. I think it still stands up.

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Detroit heavy stoner rock stuff. One of the archetypal reductio ad absurdum heavy rock lps of the time. Their live lp may be even more mindnumbing dunt in a good way but the first 2 studio lps are very recommended for this.
The 90s band Gorilla recreated the cover for one of their own releases. Showing conscious influence being picked up.

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Boston based young psychedelic band from the late 60s. I refound this recently and am not sure why I've left such an interval since previous listening.

I may add some more later.

https://i.discogs.com/Z3_lavmR35twhX9oFkvxD1sOhVGZRbM-AK2u22f_bxs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:580/w:584/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxMDUz/Ny0xNDY2MzI2MDM5/LTI5ODguanBlZw.jpegdon't dolby's "05" LP - 1998 pre-sonig hiss/drone/hum//clunk lo-fi DIY ambient v compelling

I love that the actual 'break' comes 8 minutes into this drum madness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTAdzPG4iNQ

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Self-titled debut and only album from Illinois jammy, bluesy rockers Farm. One of those private press records that actually lives up to the hype, imo.

Totally 80s up in here today, barring the first selection:

Roxy Music- Manifesto
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84
Duran Duran - Rio
New Order - Low-Life
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again

hi guys a deep wormhole led me here for the first time today
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amazing by kanye, really somber and beautiful track, probably not the first to express annoyance with what jeezy did on this though. still a solid verse

https://i.discogs.com/M5eEhs07MnJiZrnwSeGLj30taJsByHFHBRgRhKsjKEo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM3MzIz/NDYtMTM0MjE1OTAz/MC02Njc5LmpwZWc.jpegshed - "the killer" not the most inspiring artwork but the music is kinda about the speaker, so...

a very short album, though! now spinning sam rivers' "crystals".
forgot just how much i love sam rivers.
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https://i.discogs.com/vh57e7rqS1nEd_F9oGmlCwq3BXxNMx5O-hN6tyTMpX8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:615/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyODIw/MzEtMTMyMzgwNDg0/MC5qcGVn.jpegtime berne, michael formanek, jeff hirshfield "loose cannon" 1993. swings. aches. gnarly. i remember 35 years back when berne to me was "the other guy" in the spy vs spy" ornette tribute. he's kinda my#1 now. love the dude

https://i.discogs.com/ADvigIonPgPNZDbGv3NvvqsUYj2TJQQ17uEcT36wPwk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:346/w:350/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2NTYz/NzE0LTE2MDg1MDI5/NjEtNTk0Mi5qcGVn.jpeg blankdisc trio - "im komikerland" german / serbian incus improv scrabble group 2006. highly satisfactory

already finished, tho so now i'm jamming this gem from kaja draksler, petter eldh & christian lillinger:
https://i.discogs.com/58cIh94P1j-eRMceS7B4PRJmMAZrZPg5jdYQrqV8cGM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNzQ3/NzE1LTE1NDExODgy/NTEtMTA5My5qcGVn.jpeg muscular, agile composed/improvised post braxton pno bs dr. flipin grand

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https://i.discogs.com/N0TK-w1A6eHkEEvbfc2lcd71gO4aoiCtwSoW1P52OnE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:180/w:180/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2MjU2/OC0xMjYwNDg4OTM0/LmpwZWc.jpegkent sparling - route canal diary. 1997. low-key ambient. touch of paul schütze, eno some chocolate monk murk. good for reading to

Has something odd happened with the html on this thread. I keep seeing text emerging from the side of the image.

Love the Kent Sparling

xp html looks ok to me - tried it in a couple of browsers to check
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it seems to be doing it on your post.
Thought it normally went down to next line or something

yeh i don't think that's wrong so much as i probably haven't done a carriage return

I just seemed to be seeing it far more than I'd noticed before. Seemed to be on almost every post with an image. Including appearing to swallow the first letter of my first post on here.

well let me try this:
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neil campbell - lost predelic moonshine music. casio & tape murk terryrileyisms from 2004

i made certain to do a carriage return after the closing brackets of the img html.
it does look much better, but i am very lazy and super forgetful

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Still sounds amazing. I will always love them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYAv8Zl_uuA

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conrad schnitzler - constellations. 1989
bleep bloop blorp alternately drifty / urgent

there's a piano bit half way through track 2 which is a dead ringer for the piano bit in track 2 on Autechre's Exai.
i assume it's just happy coincidence

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Don't think I've ever listened to this one before - quite an unusual line -up - alto sax, bass, drums and two guitars. veers into slightly vaporous Garbarek territory at times, but funky Charlie Haden (beautifully present in the mix) keeps things kicking.

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tobita medina - aguinaldos con sinfonia

right now - vijay iyer's "panoptic modes" from 2001
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next up, jan st werner & kid millions' "imperium droop"
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doing OK with the formatting so far!

you're doing great

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finally scored a hard copy of harry merry's "well... here's another nice mess..." super good fun riyl rancid hellspawn, cardiacs, gerty farish, macula dog etc

Sevara Nazarkhan

Nervous Norvus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Zs182BBOE

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Lambchop's "This (is what I wanted to tell you)" & "Showtunes" ambient C&W Robert Ashley isms suitable for reading / writing to

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skeleton crew twofer comp cd. frith cora parkins. herky jerky folksy prog no-wave

https://open.spotify.com/track/2nwx6BHbyEYztG2RJOoM7I?si=D4plWVo3Q5eLwkgsWB23TQ

DJ Sabrina the teenage DJ!

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agyou's S/T cd: puzzle punks adjacent sloppy falling-apart exotica-dub sugar-overdose stuff from shabushabu & friend

I’m listening to this German band Strait Shooter, seems like sort of like a hard rock Alan Parsons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5XXnigvvTg

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Been on a Peter Green run thorough the last week or so listening to Mayall’s ‘A Hard Road’ and the early Fleetwood Mac albums.

kanot “vind”

https://www.normanrecords.com/artwork/medium/110/206360-hawkwind-live-at-the-royal-albert.jpg

Shockingly good recent live record. I'm a big fan of this current Thighpaulsandra era.

Vulgar Boatmen "Wide Awake"
Francis Bebey "Psychedelic Sanza"
Steven R. Smith "Anacapa"
Prison Affair "Audiotree Live"
Mike Gangloff 'April is Passing"

excited for forthcoming Throwing Muses and Daniel Bachman records

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Moacir Santos – Carnival Of The Spirits

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Relatively Clean Rivers, like, a lot

Tom Waits early albums

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Grapefruit 3cd of Hard/stoner rock from 67-73. US equivalent of their I'm A Freak Baby series. So hoping it is the first of a series.
Covers most of the usual suspects Blue Cheer, MC5, Stooges, Sir Lord Baltimore, Grand Funk etc etc. & I think is 4 hours of pretty consistently good listening.
I can see some omissions I would have covered Josefus, Stonewall, Bull Angus etc which makes me hope there are more volumes coming.
Grapefruit seem to be a label of near quality since most releases sound pretty good and are well compiled. Have come across some pressing faults unfortunately. Thankfully not here.

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3cd set on Dr Bird of singles, 12 " mixes and single b-side dub mixes featuring the Revolutionaries.
I think Two 7s Clash is one of my fav lps still. It really resonated with me when I picked it up about 40 years ago, that and the s/t Modern Lovers lp really did so at the time. This is a little bit later when the band are trying to break away from Joe Gibbs.
I really enjoy Joseph Hill's vocals. Apparently some people found them a bit too close to Winston Rodney's but I find them distinctive. I 'kin love Burning Spear anyway.
Today I listened to disc 3 which is mainly extended 12" mixes. Drawn out, a bit dubby and overall sublime. I think this set is reduced on the Cherry Red site. I got a further reduction because it was the week of Valentine's Day. Grabbed this with the Sir Lord Baltimore 3cd set.

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cheap find in a charity shop haul alongside a lot of mod revival/acid jazz stuff. But this is pretty decent sounding live material with no details in the booklet as to when I'm assuming late 50s/early 60s and a little later with Johnny Cash.
Some sublimely great guitar on most tracks.

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I think this was in the same haul as the Grand Ole Opry set. Great mid range compi largely of Morricone work including some material I was unfamiliar with. I don't think I was aware of a Morricone/Joan Baez collaboration on a s/trk to a film on Sacco and Vanzetti.
It has a lot of Spaghetti Western stuff in too. Which may be why they included Hugo Montenegro who is credited with The Good, The Bad, The Ugly as well as 2 others, Theme For The Man From Uncle and Sixty Seconds To what. I think those later 2 lack the theme. Or is Sixty Seconds To What from a Fistful of Dynamite?
Anyway the Morricone stuff is all pretty atmospheric textured stuff and sounds great. Has me wanting to hear more music influenced by it other than QMS' Calvary and Adam & The Ants/Bow Wow Wow. It did have me wondering if a young local band were picking up on it to some degree but possibly only because I was trying to think what it was I was finding interesting about direction they seemed to be picking up when I put the cd on. I think there was a level of texture and atmosphere appearing in their sound though. Great new late teen band who are appearing on stage in Nirvana etc tshirts. Hope they continue to grow.
Meanwhile think I need to listen to more Morricone, think I have more somewhere.

another local band getting pretty great are The Gopniks who are hopefully working off a Fall fetish. I think they're currently getting very good.
I think this was a while back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXOVafGpexw

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recent 60s orientated band featuring the guitarist who had been in Subway Sect. Sounds pretty great especially the guitar. 80s Indie/mod/60s revival oriented stuff one of 3 I grabbed.

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supergroup of 80s mod revival groups. Put out in the mid 2010s. Still pretty 60s oriented. Guitar can get quite rocky. Vocals seem to pick up on Anthony Newley from early Bowie. Hadn't heard of the band before I don't think but musicians include ex-Purple Hearts and Chords members.,
Quite enjoyable. Glad I found it in the charity shop haul.

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BGO 2cd of 1st 3 lps by NY garage psych band. Finally appeared after several months delay in release. Not sure what the story was.
I enjoy the 1st and 3rd lp best I think.
3rd lp Basic gets somewhat proggy very early

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Another charity shop find. Best of South African vocal trio backed by a pretty stunning band. Guitar is very notable.
That band recorded in their own light as Makgona Tsohle Band who I really want to get some material by.

the new Park Jiha on repeat all day, first of all.

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https://coldbluemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-10-inch-series-from-cold-blue-cold-blue-music-daniel-lentz-peter-garland-chas-smith-michael-jon-fink-rick-cox-barney-childs-read-miller

comp of late 70’s Californian postminimalist stuff, really varied but there’s a lightness and sensuality about much of it, imo start with Lentz

Daniel Lentz’s extraordinarily beautiful music for processed voices meets Chas Smith’s un-country music for pedal steel and dobro. A hootenanny for ocarinas (wish I was playing along with them right now) by the late Barney Childs rubs shoulders with Read Miller’s spoken word vernacular catechisms. Also featured are four compositions by CalArts’ Michael Jon Fink, two treated guitar works by occasional film music composer Rick Cox, and Peter Garland’s six Matachin Dances for violin duo accompanied by the composer himself on a gourd rattle, a haunting Native American-inspired chamber music.…” —Frank J. Oteri, NewMusicBox (American Music Center)

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https://nalbantisvasilis.bandcamp.com/album/byzantine-music-through-the-microtonal-trumpet

if you ever wanted to listen an album of Byzantine choral music for overdubbed microtonal trumpets, you have that option now.

Francis Bebey "Psychedelic Sanza”

This is quite lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy2TqeTFM-I

that Cold Blue comp is great!! xp

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paul bley's "fragments" plangent. frisell doing his mid 80's aching space mewl

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chris pitsiokos / cp unit - "silver bullet in the autumn of your years" skronky no-wave harmolodic hi-jinks

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it dockumer lokaeltsje - "tonger" frisian language bogshed / NMN / ex-y stuff

jeflexy

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zingaro and friends 2010 live at total meeting. like a classic incus scrabbleathon but more fruity & tonal

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anti rubber brain factory & yoram rosilio – dhöl le guedra live 2013. seamless big band / moroccan berber/jajouka stuff w super present fat sound

Ishka Edmeades in yet another band (Dumbells), this is basically power pop

https://chruesimuesi-records.bandcamp.com/album/up-late-with

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shit. i'm forgetting that carriage return again

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I really only knew him from Live-Evil, but this is really good stuff!

that looks rad

it is! so rad.

https://hermetopascoal.bandcamp.com/album/planet-rio-da-g-vea

ty!

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xxxxp there is no bad hermeto it's all divine

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(Satoru Wono – Sonata For Sine Wave And White Noise)
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(Toshiyuki Yasuda / Robo*Brazileira – Toshiyuki Yasuda With Robo*Brazileira)

these two forgotten 2000s japanese albums are pretty cool!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_in_Constants,_Vol._12?wprov=sfti1

https://i.discogs.com/XR69isRGAzDVvAFnFH_83ecpLnwaeIXhuG3AZfYm8QU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:530/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkxNTk3/MDItMTQ3ODgxMjIx/Ny00NDIzLmpwZWc.jpeg christian wallumrød ensemble - kurzsam & fulger. christian wallumrød's hubro discs really tickle my gastr del sol itch - droney high-lonesome vince guaraldi minimalism

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archie shepp - "the way ahead" motoring skronk, lush tunes & cavernous reverb

wow never seen that cover, I'm still a Shepp novice and only have 3-4

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cabaret voltaire's "mix-up"

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mccoy tyner "the real mccoy"

ornette coleman "ornette on tenor"

wood pigeons, laptop fan, woodpeckers, stomach

doo rag, i may well join you in ornette on tenor, it's that type of morning, good call

yeah can't go wrong

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gilbert / lewis "8 time" sorta comp including their "cupol" stuff. little smidgen of stentorian singing from lewis aside, in the main sounds like supremely zonked zoviet france with distant nervy guitars

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the lesser mp3 cd. grand stuff

kraftwerk "the man machine"

nobukazu takemura remix of roni size's "brown paper bag" just popped up on shuffle. goddamn 28 years down the line and it still sounds beamed in from the future steve reich, miles davis, double bass improv scrabble, pygmy ocarina, the stutteriest amen breaks

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recent Cherry Red release of first 2 lps by dream pop artist. I've wanted a physical copy of the pair of these for a while. I did have the old cd of the 2nd lp and used to have the 1st on vinyl after getting it for Xmas the year it came out.
So breathy vocals over 50s pop derived backing. I think it still stands up quite well

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8 disc box set by archetypal stoner hard rock band put together by the ex-rhythm section of Vanilla Fudge.
They had initially hoped to link up with the front section of the Jeff Beck Band i.e. Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart. I'm not sure if Stewart had ever been on board with this idea, he wound up joining the then frontman-less Small Faces alongside the JBG bassist who switched back to guitar which he'd played with The Birds and The Creation earlier. That was one Ronnie Wood as I'm sure you know. Jeff Beck wound up in a nasty car crash which took him a year to get over. He would later pair up with the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice a couple of years later.
So this pair of New York musician who were looking to get into a heavier, bluesier sound though they had no real grounding in the blues and often didn't recognise blues standards being sung in their dressing room as such. They recruited 2 performers who had been involved in the Detroit scene, Jim McCarty who had played with the Detroit Wheels, Mitch Ryder's backing band. His guitar becomes more prominent on the 2nd Mitch Ryder lp Breakout and smoulders and burns across Cactus' material. Frontman chosen was Rusty Day who had been in Amboy Dukes the Ted Nugent featuring band.He seems to have been much more of a blues enthusiast than the rhythm section.
So there's 3 studio lps by this lineup plus most of 2 2cd live sets that had been released by Rhino Handmade in the 00ioes. These are pretty great and feature the band stretching out pretty effectively.
There is also a 4th mainly studio lp and 4 live tracks by a band that reshuffled after Jim McCarty walked out and the label got rid of Rusty Day. This material features the vocals of Peter French who some of you know as the frontman of Leafhound. Guitar gets taken over by Werner Fritzschings who I don't think was well known beforehand and his brother Duane Hitchings came in on keyboards.
What I've heard so far has been pretty archetypal for this type of sound. Heavy guitar driven rock of this era.

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compilation of mid 70s dub singles by one of the better known Jamaican producers.
Looks like the members of Culture found him a bit controlling but sounds like the production of protegee Errol Thompson works really well. So is that Joe Gibbs ego getting better recognition again.
Anywa, another pretty good set on Dr Bird.

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art ensemble of chicago "3rd decade"