Sir Lord Baltimore

Never heard em. What am I missing? I'm imagining something like Budgie.

xhuxk to thread...

I wrote about 'em in 2007 when two of the original three reunited and self-released a pretty awesome six-song EP. Link

Better than Budgie. First album's (Kingdom Come) balls out, almost proto-metal ridiculousness, distorted bass/guitar, howling/singign drummer, tight songs, great production... if there were any justice in the world they would've been huge.

Self-titled second album is a little more draggy, kinda proggy, grandiose aspirations, but it's worth a listen.

To me they're the American equivalent of Leaf Hound - not musically, just in that both bands should've bee successful but it just didn't happen.

*been

I mean, JUST DOWNLOAD KINGDOM COME! Or buy the twofer CD on Mercury.

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

Their best song.

Sir Lord Baltimore is on the jukebox at The Parlor on Guadalupe in Austin.

Nah, "Pumped Up" is, but it's a close call. And that is possibly the most Stairway To Hellish jukebox I've ever seen, btw! Anyway I once claimed that their two LPs were the 173rd best (debut) and 180th best (followup) heavy metal albums ever made. And I probably underrated them at that (well, at least the first one -- though I think the second one's the one more people underrate nowadays.) Sticker on the cover of the 2-CD reissue even originally had my name on it, I think! But all I have now is a CD-R of the first one; is that dumb or what? Used to own them both on vinyl, obviously. Anyway, I could quote my reviews, but they have way too many silly jokes in them that avoid the issue at hand.

Were they really banned from the Fillmore East?
I like that about them.

I'm sold! Will track down Kingdom Come for starters. Thanks duders

think my favorite is probably "Woman Tamer", but then I heard the s/t first and used to cane that all the time on my college radio show back in the day. All I had was a tape dub of that lp til I found a vinyl copy of 'Kingdom Come' in the mid-90s. "Master Heartache" is ferocious too but I have a soft spot for "Woman Tamer"

I am Facebook "friends" with John Garner! had a couple cool exchanges with him, including one where he got miffed at me when I said that 'Kingdom Come' and Chicken Shack's 'Imagination Lady' were two of my favorite heavy albums of all-time (he was all "we came way before them" ha)

Is there any live footage?

xpost wow that's awesome Stormy! I think Garner set some kind of eternal never-equalled standard for power-trio drummer-singers

Was just looking at my Sir Lord Baltimore twofer on CD and noticed something funny about the cover:

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/S/Sir%20Lord%20Baltimore/Kingdom%20Come%20-%20Sir%20Lord%20Baltimore/Kingdom%20Come%20-%20Sir%20Lord%20Baltimore.jpg

Sorry but that was the biggest pic I could find.

Check the title.

It also looks terrible!

haha "something" funny! (Or "somethin" funny, make that.) There's at least THREE differences between that and the real twofer (and the identical original vinyl. That's gotta be a bootleg, right?

Weird thing about that comp: Both LPs have their sides reversed, with the two former "Side Two"s preceding the two "Side One"s. The liner notes make mention of this, and explain that the original LPs in fact had their sides accidentally flipped, and that the CD corrects this. Which I really don't believe at all. Isn't it at least twice as likely that the screwup actually occurred during the CD mastering rather than on TWO consecutive albums? That, even if Kingdom Come was released with the actual sides accidentally reversed, the band wouldn't have complained to Mercury Records about the mixup and asked 'em to take better care next time? Yeah right.

I don't know if it's a bootleg or not. Mine has the same cover as the one I posted above and it's on Red Fox. The sides are reversed, as you say. But there are no liners.

180G Vinyl reissues of the 2 LPs are out now

womaaaaaaaaan!!

FFFFFFIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got an original for £8, last week!

I finally scored and original LP of Kingdom Come. Very good, but whoever said up-thread that this is better than Budgie is a quack.

I hosted the singer's current band The Lizards at one of my festivals back in 2003. Real gentleman.

That was me. I'm totally a quack, though, it's true.

sir lord goes so much harder than budgie dogg, quack quack quack

budgie is not as audacious as they should be. but they are still pretty good.

i kinda think of them as how rush might have evolved if john rutsey would have stayed on as drummer

SLB >>>>>>>> Budgie

and I think Budgie rules

Insanity.

I want a new duck.

YAH i wanna be clear i wasn't trying to diss budgie dudes. just for the historical record, love both bands, just like SLB a little more.

I guess I big part of my argument is that Budgie has a body of work and SLB has only two rateable albums.

Even if I cut out filler, Budgie has at least 4 full albums worth of quality material and I disagree that SLB is really that much harder.

Still, both are good bands. One was a flash in the pan, the other a seriously overlooked classic rock act of the second magnitude.

Omg! I forgot to tell you guys something:

SIR LORD FUCKIN' BALTIMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard that John Garner passed away. Any confirmation?

Seeing various mentions of it.

Yeah, it's as confirmed as I guess it can be.
RIP, drumming, singing man. Thanks for making two amazing albums.