Hackamore Brick reissued!

probably a Tim Ellison/Scott Seward/Xhxck&Co kinda record

got an old scratchy vinyl LP on these guys, like to hear em on CD.

if it sounds like this, its REALLY my kind of record.
I just want to hear more proto-punk/proto-metal/early 70's American underbelly these days...

(ciao Ned!)

Oh yes you have, Ned.

Then pick up the two Pentagram reissues on Relapse immediately: First Daze Here and First Daze Here Two.

One Kiss Leads to Another is always my standard answer whenever there's talk about albums that need to be reissued on CD. There's also a slight country rock influence in addition to proto-punk. If the Flying Burrito Brothers attempted to cover the Velvet Underground's 3rd album the end result would sound similar to Hackamore Brick.

Is there a release date set yet?

does this really garner comparisons to Teenage Head?

and Marco, your package arrived today, cosmically aligning in the post so as to arrive along with the new Oneida!

But beggars can't be choosers. (off to hunt it down)

Andy, they weren't as tight as the Flamin' Groovies, but had great songs.

One Kiss Leads to Another [Kama Sutra, 1970]
This audition tape by the Venus in Furs Society--a record collectors club whose firsthand contact with "decadence" consists of one DMT experience and moderate quantities of oral sex--bears a spooky resemblance to The Velvet Underground (LP number three, the lyrical one). Chick Newman's sour pitch has the deadpan emotional resonance of Lou Reed's, only folkier and more sanguine. The flat, droning beat is pure Maureen Tucker. And the organ solos are obviously an hommage to John Payne of the Serpent Power. B

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ps Andy: glad this time the package arrived safely - just let me know what you think of it!

:9:(:

however, life gets better right ? i hope so. get one again some day -- it's kinda my mantra. I spilled beer on my Hackamore Brick rec just this las t week .. in a bad way; well; the rec is OK; the cover is shot. me & my Sierra Nevada annual IPA. b rutal.

boy did I ever love it before ruining it in drunkeness.. oh well; leave to to sell old vinyl in eBay anyway

i wil put it on eBay,,

n00b w/ VU fetish from HOBOKON ---- THis Bad Bouy is yrs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it want't to be, but.... NO

it almost kind of wants to be NIGHT MOVES

,but .... no

it is what is, tho ... FANTASTIC record

(Did this with Donald Byrds LPs a few weeks back, arguing about ELECTRIC BYRD while hearing SLOW DRAG in the canyons of my mind)

is there some ILM protocol insisting that Bob Xgau reviews be posted on every thread? cause he CAN be a good touchstone but that HB blurb is sorta unilluminating and quite patronizing.

Well, after awhile, we were leavin' him behind
We were singin' with the record, her favorite song and mine
My babe leaned out, you know, to give him the finger
Well, I just didn't notice as she fell out of the window
I was singin', singin' to the song on the radio

Well, I turned around quickly/She looked very sickly
I felt myself cryin'/My babe, she was tryin'
To give me her hand/She kissed me one last time
And we hummed the last bar of her favorite song and mine
As it played ... on the radio

Well, sometimes when I'm ridin' late in the evening
I feel her beside me/Hear her singin'
It's my old love/You know, she's somewhere above me
I can almost taste her lips when I'm kissing my new girlfriend
And we're listening ... to our song on the radio

Love this record.
Some really transcendent moments on this. Just.. you know. So good.

i got the mr. nobody reissue. i find it as exciting as cold oatmeal.

it's certainly lot proto-metal as it's billed up top!
it's a velvetsy hippie-rock record with a few duds, but overall it's better than a lot of shit released in 1970.

lot = not

the walls i might be buried in are three feet thick

There's no arguing with Zip Gun Woman, but some of the album is pretty sappy. Sappy in a good way though, same sort of sappy as Todd's Runt maybe?

i still love it, and yes it is indeed sappy in the best way possible.
the mr nobody reissue, by the way, is really really poor sounding.

you know she's warmer than the fourth of july

just a bump cuz this record is still fucking amazing.

i always end up back at oh those sweet bananas

my faves are probably Got A Gal Named Wilma, I Watched You Rhumba, and Peace Has Come... but Bananas, and Zip Gun Woman... whole record is really solid imo.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NK3NwhcAKOY/SWJRTdttznI/AAAAAAAABW4/97bsfnuMevM/s320/Hackamore+Brick+-+One+Kiss+Leads+To+Another.jpg

summer jams. all of them. summer jams.

This never was reissued, was it?

There's an (allegedly) crummy CD bootleg, but I'm not even sure if that's still available.

A few years back there was a CD reissue on a label by the name of Mr. Nobody. I don't know if it was official. Plus, I don't think the sound is too great (though I've never heard the album, so that's just a guess.)

Ian and I are probably talking about the same disc.

Its crummy and is a bootleg, but its still available.
Rther aptly, the "label" is called Mr Nobody.

ooops, WQuantumNoise, didnt see your posts!

Can't some non-crummy people reissue it? I imagine you would need a non-crummy copy of the original album, and that might not exist.

was just looking and there's a sealed copy for sale on ebay for $87

It's good, but it's not $87 good IMO.

At least the bootleg has the b-side of the single - a rather good, NRBQ-like cover of "Searchin'".
But yes, please someone give us a legit reissue right now.

It's good, but it's not $87 good IMO.

But somebody can buy it and then use the copy to make CDs and then sell it to the, oh.... one, two.... uh.... three.... five people on this thread.... uhhhhh

The last two copies to go up for auction sold for $10 and $25. It's really not that expensive or hard to find.

but this is SEALED!

yeah somebody please start a record label thx!

Mosurock knows Hackamore Brick. Maybe he knows about any possible reissue news?

this album is pretty great. it's a very modest album, so it may disappoint some drawn in by the hype.

i think "oh those sweet bananas" is a lost classic. in a way it reminds me of wire -- it's so short, it says its piece and ends. certain parts of the melody are barely repeated at all, despite being incredibly catchy. if the song went on longer it might get cloying (as some of the other tracks on the LP threaten to do) but ending when it does, it's just perfect.

Are we aware that they've been playing little gigs in nyc? Two of them, anyway.

There's a a great article/interview with them in a recent issue of Ugly Things, which is not online unfortunately. As usual with UT it's indepth and enthusiastic but the HB didn't seem to be buying the idea that there are folks out there who are interested in owning or listening to their stuff. I think they also admitted that they had a lot of unreleased recordings which were supposedley even better than the released stuff. Gonna have to dig out that mag again.

I heard they played a show in NYC maybe 4 months ago? and that it was mediocre.

Apparently playing WFMU fair in November. Ian I expect a show report!

they played a while back after an initial reunion -- it was okay! i'll report back, mr. stormy davis.

Seven years late but this is being reissued

want

There's going to be an album of unreleased tapes too. (Not on same label, I don't think.)

There's great-sounding 45 of their best tune out now: http://www.uglypop.bigcartel.com/product/hackamore-brick-oh-those-sweet-bananas-45-up040
I'm pretty sure that Ugly Pop is on the up & up, not a bootleg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdF-aGR8-_s

Ha, we should do a Hackamore Brick OPO. I think I might pick "I Watched You Rhumba."

Zip Gun Woman ftw

Wrote on "I Won't Be Around," which I think is the sleeper track on the album:

http://thisiheard.blogspot.com/2013/08/hackamore-brick-i-wont-be-around-1970.html

Man, this new CD version of the album is CLEAR.

It's making me realize all the more how much I love the sound on this album - that clean electric guitar sound that you get later in the Modern Lovers, the big rumbling bass, the primitive hard panning of things in the mix (including the drum set), the pounding piano on "I Watched You Rhumba," and the organ that could be from a Seeds record.

Really digging the mono single mix of "Radio." It's like a more primitive equivalent of "Overnite Sensation (Hit Record)."

Never realized it has SIX verses, plus three utterances of the chorus. (And the chorus has two parts; the second time through, the second part has different words - "It's old sounds, new sounds, rock sounds, blue sounds" etc.)

There's also a little instrumental link that happens twice, characterized by a lead bass line. Second time, they add guitar chords at the end and this leads to the third verse, where suddenly it's just the piano accompaniment. Accompaniment builds gradually through all the remaining verses and the final chorus.

What a great record!

One of the very first things I sought out (and quickly found) when I started downloading stuff 10 years ago. (Stranded's discography being where I first read about it, not surprisingly--also went searching for the Col. Jubilation B. Johnston & His Mystic Knight Band and Street Singers LP, which I'd stopped believing even existed.) It didn't make a big impression, maybe it's time to give it another try.

New album, Snails in Astoria, is fantastic. Worthy of One Kiss.