VA - Up All Night - 20 Heavy Nuggets from the Golden Age of Hard Psych (2009)
CD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, no log) - 470 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 170 MB
1:12:53 | Full Scans - 49 MB | Garage Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Heavy Metal | Label: Past & Present Records
In the late '60s and early '70s, many bands were making, or caught in, the transition between psychedelia and hard rock. This comp has 20 cuts from that mini-genre's heyday, most of them from quite obscure bands and releases, though a few actually made a modest commercial impact. Certainly SRC (represented by the "Up All Night" title track) are fairly well remembered and fairly well regarded, as to different extents are a few other acts here, like Damnation of Adam Blessing, the Litter, and Sir Lord Baltimore. Most of these fellas (and they certainly are all fellas, likely strutting their pretty macho-oriented stuff to a largely male audience as well) won't be familiar to many collectors, however, though some had connections to famous figures like Rick Derringer, Frijid Pink, Johnny Winter, Eddie Kramer, Shadow Morton, Mountain, and Frank Zappa.