supersoul

As for this record, I knew that Kak-Ola would be targeted by mockery!!! In fact, I had posted the review with the original title that shares the name of the band, but the editors rightly corrected it because what’s out there is only the CD reissue titled Kak-Ola, integrated with the unplugged versions that Lewis Tollani loves so much, and indeed, the one of "Everything's Changing" is extraordinary. I would like to praise Gary Yoder again (and reassure molto that in "Lemonade Kid," strangely, his guitar sounds a lot like Jerry Garcia's in tracks like "Sugaree" or "Crazy Fingers"). He is indeed the one responsible for the psychedelic turn of Blue Cheer in "The Original Human Beings," which I personally like a lot, with the closing entrusted to one of his beautiful, tender, nighttime ballads like "Rest at Ease" – it could pierce even a heart of stone (so every now and then, let yourselves go!!!). PS: Damn, don’t worry that tonight I’ll introduce you to Tom Verlaine! And hello to all the numerous attendees.

Hey, so many comments... well, Debaser is not just a site for Dream Theater fans... kidding aside, I'm glad you're interested. Here we are in the circle of Blue Cheer, which comes from the Oxford Circle, the legendary band from Sacramento produced by Gary Yoder, where drummer Paul Whaley played. Within this circle around the BC, the Mint Tattoo are interesting; they were a pretty conformist power blues trio that released a good self-titled album in 1968, from which Bruce Stephens and Ralph Kellog emerged to play on the fourth album of Blue Cheer. Then there are the Other Half, deserving of the praise already given by Psycho, from whom Randy Holden will emerge, responsible for the excellent second side of the controversial third album by Blue Cheer, "New Improved," as well as an album under his own name like the legendary "Population II," featuring just guitar and drums (and the drummer is the one from Kak). Furthermore, there are the Silver Metre, the band formed in 1969 by the first guitarist of Blue Cheer, Leigh Stephens, who made a rather varied album in England with this group, mixing various styles from rock blues to country to psychedelic ballads, including three covers of Elton John (the stunning "Sixty Years On"). Leigh Stephens stayed in England for a while and released a couple of solo albums, of which I highly recommend "Red Weather," very hippie and full of calm psychedelic ballads that have nothing to do with early Blue Cheer.

sure that Tom Verlaine "costs" half of Blixa...well! for me he's priceless, he's a piece of history and of "my" history

after the equal sign there should have been the 3.5 but it must have stayed behind the cactus

Some time ago, someone reviewed the "other" Indian Summer, the more recent ones associated with the post-rock genre, and I, along with at least four other debaseriani, jumped at the chance, thinking they were talking about the legendary album by... Cactus. Here’s the review, and I must say it doesn’t do full justice; Indian Summer fits into the heavy prog genre heavily driven by the Hammond organ, as traced by bands like Atomic Rooster (Emotions of Men seems to come directly from a record by Vincent Crane's band). Maybe if they trimmed the solos a bit, the album would flow more smoothly, and then there's the great voice of Bob Jackson that adds that half-point extra.

"Supersoul, I know prog quite well, which is why I feel confident putting PFM in their place." Brava cavalli, but it happens that, since we’re communicating via the web, there are at least a thousand music sites dedicated to progressive genres—English, French, from Gibraltar, Japanese—and it just so happens that on ALL of these sites, when it comes to drawing up a ranking of prog albums in the top 10 (and not 100), there is always THE (and not THE) PFM...

@alessioiride: on Saturday Tom Verlaine should be at Galleria Toledo.... with this crowd I don't need Viagra to get excited.

dear cavalli you surely know the prog well, but I inform you that it is not limited to yes, genesis, vdgg, and king crimson. on these pages, works have been reviewed (I quote from memory) Cressida, Janus, Aadvark, Atomic Rooster, Standarte, Audience, Beggars Opera. I've never seen a comment from you; it would have been interesting to know the opinion of a profound connoisseur of the genre as you profess to be, don't you think? Or are those groups too inferior to compete with the little fingers that Wakeman plays for the six wives of Henry VIII?

For me, the irrefutable proof is the myriad of new bands (I'll throw out a few names at random: the Muggs, Greenholes, Arctic Monkeys) that recreate that rock which made me/us gush rivers of sperm for guaranteed pleasure over decades of listening and still today force me to shell out money to buy the same dream again to get me excited as if they were Viagra pills. I don't know your dream, and maybe you don't need Viagra because you've had a few hookups. Lucky you, you still have life ahead of you; I find myself thinking about how beautiful that hookup was to the sound of "Down the Street" by the Stooges or "Another Day" by Roy Harper...