M- 1972 BANG MOTHER Sabbath Hard Psych

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 TOP COPY = 1972 MINTY CLEAN ORIGINAL HEAVYROCK

               BANG

 MOTHER / BOW TO THE KING

                        USA - Capitol Records -SMAS 110    

Bang's crazed ascent up the ranks of heavy-rock pioneers is legendary among the underground circles. Story has it that the Bang boys were in Florida, trying unsuccessfully to scrap together a music career. Having scored some weed on the Boardwalk, they walked to a local music store to buy some rolling papers when they noted a sign advertising a Battle of Bands. Asking the store manager if they could join, the manager mockingly pointed out that the contest was last week and sarcastically suggested that they go over to Orlando and open up for Rod Stewart. Armed with their gear, papers, bag of pot and a hefty set of balls, Bang took his "get-the-f**k-out-of-my-store" suggestion to heart, headed to Orlando, somehow tracked down Rod Stewart's manager, somehow convinced him to let them set up and somehow got him to listen to their set. And it worked! From out of nowhere, Bang's first real gig was opening up that night for Rod Stewart & the Faces, Deep Purple and Southern Comfort!

From there, the music did the rest, Bang produced a series of albums for Capitol that deserves to be heard today. Using a basic power-trio line-up of drums, bass and guitar, the boys managed to avoid sounding anything like Cream and instead fused a love of early Sabbath with a slightly bluesy-folkish twist of Zepplin into a wholly satisfying stew of heavy-rock. So what's it sound like? "Mother/Bow To The King" kicks the whole thing off as a perfect example of tastey hard guitar riffing early heavy rock.

"Mother" starts off with a catchy acoustic passage, sounding very sixties in its peace-and-love vibe. The vocals, a great cross between Ozzy and Robert Plant  hangs onto that sixties idealism, until you suddenly realize what they boys are singing about. "Mother/you've been good to me/Mother/kept me from what I shouldn't see/taught me life was sweet and grand/told me goodness came from man/Mother/ you lied to me." Then the detuned guitar kicks in, launching the song into a heavy tirade about the state of American society in the early seventies. There could be no better capsule to so aptly define the death of the hippie, than this statement. And the album doesn't let up from there. "Humble," after it's folky intro, rages with a riff as heavy as anything Sabbath turned out and a vocal phrasing eerily reminiscent of Ozzy without being derivative. "Keep On," shoots off with a scratchy wah-wah style riff, before dropping into a heavy bottom ended groover. "Idealist/Realist," is another barnburner, making you wonder just why you hadn't grabbed a copy of this LP earlier. Actually, one thing that's readily apparent on listening to the LP is that somehow, everything sounds vaguely familiar. And that my friend is meant to be a compliment, not an insult. When you consider that Bang were banging out this heavy groove way back in 1971, it makes you realize just how much these guys influenced a whole generation of rockers later in the seventies and into the eighties. The rest that the Bow to the King LP is just as polished and fierce ...

Mother/Bow to the King is an essential addition to any self-respecting hardrock library and still sounds vibrant today from back when hard rock was a fresh statement, an angry protest, and everything was just a little bit better with a dimebag scored on the Boardwalk. 

FRANK FERRARA bs, vcls
FRANK GLICKEN gtr, vcls
DURIS MAXWELL drms
JEFFREY CHEEN perc
BRUCE GARY drms


 1 Mother 4:24
2 Humble 4:44
3 Keep On 3:40
4 Idealist Realist 4:31
5 No Sugar Tonight 2:38
6 Feel the Hurt 5:19
7 Tomorrow 3:05
8 Bow to the King 5:39

CONDITION: The cover a thick gatefold with fragile matter finish is solid & M- TOP level with NO problems...one of the best originals you'll hope to find... harder to find THIS clean than you think!  

The vinyl is all glossy clean over both sides M- TOPS...and both the Capitol labels are CLEAN.... 

                keeper copy!

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