where is the love for LUCIFER'S FRIEND?

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got their 1978 *good time warrior* for $1 in a salvation army bin last month, and though it is supposed to be long after their heavy teutonic midget-with-a-hook-hand-standing-in-pool-of-blood-album-cover/immigrant-song-crossed-with-paranoid ride-the-skies prime, i like it a lot. the final two songs on the first side sound a lot like the first streetheart album in that high-registered prog-fancied-up bubblegum disco-metal way, and the 10-minute closer on side two reminded me immediately of bombastic Eurodisco genius Alec Costandinos (who, I just noticed, I compared tracks by to *early* Lucifer's Friend in an appendix in my metal book, but maybe I meant late Lucifer's' Friend, who I'd never even heard at the time, instead. Because it sounds like, by '78, LF were listening to Euro disco as much as Costandinos was listening to Euro metal.)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I love the first album! but that's the only one I have. And yeah, you're right about that one song sounding like "Immigrant Song". "Ride the Skies" is it? I remember the song with "Toxic" in the title as being good. Cub Koda was a big fan.

I want to try another of their albums at some point but i've never got around to it. Probably pick up that album with Groupies in the title at some point. I don't know, I didn't really like Lawton all that much; didn't care for his stint in the mighty Uriah Heep. I can't remember a single thing about that Lone Star album (not the Big&Rich precursors but the 70s hard rock thing)

I actually have an album by a PRE-Lucifer's Friend band called Asterix. They made one self-titled album. It's not too bad actually. Pretty damn heavy in fact, but with prominent piano on most cuts, which they apparently jettisoned by the time they mutated into LF...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

"I personally will piss in all your ale for your ungratefulness towards the vast achievements that the greatest band in rock and roll history laid forth. At least until John Lawton come along that is. Oh, Davey! I mean, Lucifer?s Friend was Germany's 10 cent attempt at being Uriah Heep and of course, the only Brit in the band, John Lawton jumped at the chance to replace Byron. What were we thinking? I need a fucking drink! Until next issue, I hope you die a bit more each day. Harsh you say? I?m Mick Box damn you!"

In the Box with Uriah Heep's MICK BOX! Early Seventies hard rox!

Perhaps a bit harsh, but he's obviously a bitter old man.

If you find LF's "Mean Machine" as cheap vinyl, get it. Lawton had either left or been chucked out of Heep, returning to the band for another stab at the style of the first couple albums, more rock and roll than pomp.

― George Smith, Monday, 14 March 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Bought either Groupies or Banquet years ago and found it totally unmemorable. Everybody knows that first one's a classic, but didja know that the CD reissue (the version I own, at least) has 5 bonus cuts tacked on, from a much later horn-drenched edition of the band, that sound NOTHING like that which precedes 'em? (They're more in a prog-jazz-fusion vein, not terrible once you get over the absurdity of it all.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

^^^ groupies and banquet pretty much suck. two years later, i know, but just checkin in...

but jesus the first album's great. asterix, a little less so, but still pretty fucking good. would i be better off getting either pink mice or electric food next?

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

six years pass...

Is Mind Exploding any good? I almost got it today for $5 but I was already getting a lot of stuff that I had a higher confidence in

― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:11 (eleven years ago)

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