Hippie nonsense

petergunn

plywood violin
In terms of Teutonic Bearded Heaviness, I think Yeti is the only one you need by the Duul. s.

i really want to put Phallus Dei on the turntable to prove you wrong, but i am listening to the Heptones on Studio One and they are too good to take off for drug addled germans...
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
I never really got into that one. It's alright, but maybe it's the mixing or something... or maybe it's the fact that Side 2 is one long bearded unstructured crazyjam freakfest with extra congas. Actually that makes it sound great :p Must relisten! Agree about the Heptones though.

TN - this has just been reissued but you should be able to get another one on UK Liberty for not too much money. The cover is not as nice though.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
I listened to this this afternoon:

Love Will Make a Better You

It's pretty awesome. The first track is a 20 minute long freakout with nonsensical whispered lyrics, flutes, organs and FUZZZZZZ. There's a sax in their somewhere as well. It is the very essence of stoned hippies laying down stoned grooves. Even better, these hippies are Japanese.
 
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Benny Bunter

Well-known member
In terms of Teutonic Bearded Heaviness, I think Yeti is the only one you need by the Duul. That record is so hairy, you can hear the beard as it plays.

(The other LPs are more proggy).

Agreed, I like Yeti the best though I've not heard Phallus Dei (God's cock!?). I did buy Tanz der Lemming and I just couldn't get on with it at all.

Went to a krautrock tribute night recently where thet were showing loads of old footage of Kraut bands playing live. With the exception of Can and Kraftwerk they were all completely awful, sub-Pink Floyd/Grateful Dead stoned fret wankery of the worst kind.
 

hamarplazt

100% No Soul Guaranteed
Originally Posted by baboon2004 View Post
Does that feature "I walked with a zombie"? Great title.

yes it does.
It does? That's weird, it's not on my copy. It do contain a lot of other absolutely great titles, though, such as "Cold Night For Alligators", "I think of Demons" and "Creature with the Atom Brain". Actually, I've never been completely convinced by 13th floor Elevators, but this record is simply great.
 

bassbeyondreason

Chtonic Fatigue Syndrome
Might seem an unlikely source, but I have some early 70s Deep Purple bootlegs that are on this vibe, and amazing. Especially the ones with crummy sound quality.
 

bb_rebozo

.._......
Agreed, I like Yeti the best though I've not heard Phallus Dei (God's cock!?). I did buy Tanz der Lemming and I just couldn't get on with it at all.
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Amon Düül II is totally overrated , like ca. 50% of “Krautrocksampler” . but if it comes down to decent hippie vibes in a sitting-stoned-in-a-circle-manner “Paradieswärts Düül” by Amon Düül has its moments .
 

bb_rebozo

.._......
“End of the Game” by Peter Green . there is not a single song on this album , just excerpts from greasy jams with a massive hippie vibe, modal guitar wah noodling to excess . very nice .

as for the kraut stuff : Ash Ra Tempel’s debut album is a psyched out pit . and , of course , Hairy Chapter (nomen est omen!) fits perfectly in this ill-groomed / bearded / fuzzy category .
 

STN

sou'wester
start with the first S/t one... basically just a speedy garage rock LP...

then Anthem of the Sun, very cool record... a good sort of crazy...

right, have located multiple stocks of these ones for five quid a throw. Can I trouble you to describe them further? What's the ratio of whimsy to WWAWWWAAAAAAAAAH-booom-booom-EEEEEEE_WWAAAAAAH?
 

petergunn

plywood violin
right, have located multiple stocks of these ones for five quid a throw. Can I trouble you to describe them further? What's the ratio of whimsy to WWAWWWAAAAAAAAAH-booom-booom-EEEEEEE_WWAAAAAAH?

first lp really is like a garage rock LP... not much whimsy at all...

1. "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Grateful Dead) – 2:13
2. "Beat It on Down the Line" (Fuller) – 2:33
3. "Good Morning Little School Girl" (Williamson) – 5:45
4. "Cold Rain and Snow" (Grateful Dead) – 2:31
5. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Jacobs, Carter) – 2:07
6. "Cream Puff War" (Garcia) – 2:28

[edit] Side two

7. "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose) – 5:08
8. "New, New Minglewood Blues" (Lewis) – 2:37
9. "Viola Lee Blues" (Lewis) – 10:13


a lotta blues covers and stuff.... Golden Road is a great pop song...
it's basically a high energy hippie dance record, not much of the folky stuff you would associate w/ the dead, it really doesn't sound like that at all... i mean, check how many songs are 2:30 or less... i read somewhere they recorded the whole record on speed and it sounds that way... i prefer side 1 to side 2...

Anthem of the Sun is totaly different... really trippy and weird... a lot of medleys and tape edits, w/ studio stuff and live stuff put together... the original mix was done w/ garcia and co high on acid... some songs do have a folky touch to them, but in an odd way... the song structure is weird on a lot of songs, but unlike the first record, you can recognize it as the Dead... and there is def some whimsy on this one, but there is a lot of WWAWWWAAAAAAAAAH-booom-booom-EEEEEEE_WWAAAAAAH, too
 

STN

sou'wester
Thanks for the summaries. Will get checking. I want this word to be in the OED:

WWAWWWAAAAAAAAAH-booom-booom-EEEEEEE_WWAAAAAAH
 

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
I just have to add here that I don't particularly care for the Dead but they were absolutely, hands down, no contest the best gig I've ever been to in my life. And yes, the acid was amazing.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"Ramases - Space Hymns"
Is this the radiator salesman who one day quit his job, declared he was an Egyptian God, made a couple of albums and then killed himself?

Isn't I Walked With A Zombie the name of a film?
 

STN

sou'wester
Is this the radiator salesman who one day quit his job, declared he was an Egyptian God, made a couple of albums and then killed himself?

Isn't I Walked With A Zombie the name of a film?

I hope so, and yes.
 

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Almost forgot, on a bar jukebox the other night I unexpectdly heard one of the ultimate (and best) hippie-nonsense songs, Matty Groves by Fairport Convention. Especially memorable for the 3 minute+ 'campfire hoedown' double-time outro. :D
 
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