Where is the LOVE for Suck's "Time to Suck"?

ha! counting down to el sabor de gene in 3... 2... 1...

I saw it in a store here in chicago once, and I meant to buy it based on el sabor de gene's recommendation, but I was already buying a lot of other records at the time so I put it back, thinking "It will still be here the next time, nobody likes this kind of shit in this town except me anyway."

Of course, when I went back, it was gone. And I haven't seen it since.

But, I don't feel too disappointed. One thing: it's a lot of covers. You know, one of THOSE kind of records .. looked like heavied-up versions of the expected covers -- I think some Cream, Animals, maybe Grand Funk, things like that (cf. 1st albums from Flower Travellin' Band, Aguaturbia, etc.)

Hey, I listened to that Pentagram First Days Here thing again last night. That sucker rips! Much better than I thought the first time I listened to it. I love "Lazylady".

The reason I'm curious was Popoff's Seventies book. He was kind to it.

My experience was local band's self-pressed performances in the early Seventies were often better than average cover sets. I wish I'd bought some of them in Schulkill County where The Jordan Brothers and the Other Side were big. Corny name, but The Jordan Brothers rocked quite heavy and were very different from east-Pennsy bands like The Buoys and Jay & the Techniques.

That habit has come around again. Leslie West is doing albums of covers. Pat Travers does them. Kevin DuBrow did one. Surprisingly, very good glam rock homage. Even Osbourne -- ugh -- is doing one. Imagine Ozzy singing a Mott the Hoople song. Christ.

By definition, Suck would have to be better.

it's all covers, i'm pretty sure. couple of deep purple numbers, "war pigs," "sin's a good man's brother," "21st century schizoid man," etc.

i like it heaps, but it's fair to say i'm not the world's most discerning listener of 70s heaviness.

this dude this dude has it listed in his catalog, but he sometimes lists stuff that hasn't been available for years. i'd be happy to trade copies with anyone who wanted to hear it.

also, from what little i've heard of south african rock, it seems that deep purple (mks. I&II) had an indordinate influence on their scene. freedom's children tends more towards mark I, suck going for gillan period with bits of new york style lunk-rock (vanilla fudge and grand funk, you know the deal). they're no bolder damn.

All right. I'll trade copies for this. "Thousand Days of Yesterdays" recreation of first Captain Beyond record by likes of Pentagram and an assortment of Swede hard rock bands doing the 70's thing. Something else someone thinks I might have or know something about but probably don't. Three Man Army? Second or third Freedom record, whichever is better? The Lizards record with John Garner of Sir Lord Baltimore on it? Copy of Nitzinger's first or the anthology of updated versions, "Going Back to Texas"? Second Dirty Tricks album, "Night Man"? A dupe of Pat Travers first solo or a baby's arm holding an apple? Pentagram's "Review Your Choices"? Status Quo's "Quo Live"? My CD remaster of Lone Star's "Firing on All Six"? A dupe of Manfred Mann Earth Band's "Solar Fire"? My remaster of both Detective albums? Ariel Bender's Widowmaker? The Flash bootleg "Psychosync"? Something by Bloodrock, presumably "Live Bloodrock"?