Hampton Grease Band

Musical Group or Musician

Forfans of experimental, psychedelic and avant-garde rock; listeners who seek out obscure classic albums.
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The Profile

American rock band best known for the 1971 double album Music to Eat, noted for an eccentric, improvisational take on psychedelic and avant-garde rock.

Best known for the 1971 double album Music to Eat (originally released on Columbia). Associated with Col. Bruce Hampton and recognized for an eclectic, improvisational, Dada-influenced approach to rock.

A single, fervent DeBaser review celebrates Music to Eat as an out-of-time masterpiece. The reviewer praises composition, execution and improvisation, comparing the band to Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, Pere Ubu and Zappa. The piece laments the album's obscurity despite its qualities.

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❝ an incredible masterpiece of composition, execution, creativity, improvisation, and technique, a lethal mix of Jams à la Allman Brothers Band with the lysergic compositions à la Grateful Dead and the unfeasible Dadaism of the Magic Band, whose listening is an infinite pleasure, an uncontrollable explosion of sounds to listen to a thousand times, discovering a thousand new facets each time, and a thousand new reasons to put it back on