speaking of chris goss, the new goon moon album is pretty cool.

somehow i didn't even get that pine/cross dover had been released. what do people think of it?? fyi my favorite masters of reality album is blue garden, then sunrise on the sufferbus, then frankly pretty much everything after that i thought sorta sucked big hinie.

I like it, but i disagree strongly that everything after sunrise sucks.

first album and sunrise are two of my favorite rock records of all time, but i never really went any deeper than that, to be honest. it was too long a wait from sunrise to the third album! i had stopped looking for new stuff by then.

my high school band did a cover of "sleepwalkin". then sunrise came out and it was incredible, ginger baker was amazing, i went to college and sang "rabbit one" in a bar called Baci, the sky was the limit. then i got into techno, moved to new york, got a job.. and one afternoon on a friend's vast wall of CDs i saw some new masters of reality album, something i'd never seen before. we put it on and it was like a bad dream - nothing like i'd remembered, not even a twitch of recognition. i was so disappointed i think i resolved never to think about masters of reality again beyond those two albums, as if they'd died or something.

your loss

;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l9zLymnKbM

On a related note, Tim Harrington who was the co-founder of the original MoR and a huge talent in his own right has a new album out with his band Creepjoint. On the MySpace site the song "Kill the Head" is just devastating.

http://www.myspace.com/creepjoint

the guy from les savy fav?

Sorry. I knew that question was coming after I pressed ENTER. Two diff dudes.

hahaha

Herman i kinda like that song you linked.. something seems missing though. it's like two vamps, that's it. sunrise was already heading that way, but so much of what i love about MoR is how they married riffs with real melodies and songs. plus the drumming.. i mean god i loved that first drummer. maybe more than ginger baker, frankly. the stuff he pulls off at the end of kill the king is just... wow.

sorry, lost my train of thought - the drumming on that song is like, well, it's competent, but pretty martial and basic and nothing much happens with it..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nfdj-W7hV8

I fucking love that song

The version on Give Us Barabbas is even better

and here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdD9UN8UbQQ

but so much of what i love about MoR is how they married riffs with real melodies and songs. plus the drumming.. i mean god i loved that first drummer. maybe more than ginger baker, frankly. the stuff he pulls off at the end of kill the king is just... wow.

Drummer = Vinnie Ludovico.

I think the Masters on the first album is a superior band to the one found on Sunrise (which I like). It's just not as ambitious as MoR 1.0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLbeKrqQnO4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEN2B-U5ZW8

My fave from that album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGOkV2Sjqg

hey if anyone is interested i have a VG+ copy of the original def american masters of reality album i would be willing to sell, i paid $15 you can have it for that

would love it but im skint right now. No more records til january for me.

Do I need yet another copy?!? Hmmm... I'll think about this for a little while.

if you can wait a few weeks for payment im def interested esp if others already have it.

There used to be like three copies of that album in every used record shop (I assume returned by people who mistook it for the Black Sabbath album) (but I always wondered who these people were, who liked Sabbath but not MoR!)

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Yeah, if someone wants it who doesn't have it, then go for it. I think this records needs to be appreciated by as many folks as possible.

herman it's yours if you want it in the new year, just get at me via ilx mail

didn't really jibe with me for some reason.

My mate bought it(vinyl)a long long time ago and he copied it for me but ive never seen a copy of it on vinyl. I have the renamed cd version.

awesome will webmail you asap!