Various Artists - Brown Acid: The Twenty-Third Trip Various Artists

BROWN ACID The Twenty-Third Trip… you have two options: immediately run and duck for cover or get your rocks off big time! Ten more vintage primal detonators from the early days of hard rock, exploding across time to wreck your mind today, just in case you’re still standing after Trips One thru Twenty-Two. Out of the ash heap of ’60s idealism comes harsh reality, uncontrollable urges, alienation, get-it-while-you-can desperation dosed with brutal guitar as these long lost local bands rip it up, captured young right out of the gate, untamed by record biz producers, no namby pamby artsy fartsy moves. This is the sort of deadly to-the-point savagery that only real life unfiltered and gone sideways can deliver!

About the tracks:

LOOKING GLASS · Watertown, MA
Gnarly proto-thrash ripper guitar as the singer delivers muddled promises of a groovy future to the girl he’s hitting on… if he can just get in her pants right now. Extended jam-out with a groove shift and raw spitfire guitar licks.

FEAR · Vancouver, BC
A brutal rip on the Nazz’s “Wildwood Blues,” itself a rip on the Yardbirds, with UK freak beat vibed vocals over a relentless galloping “La Grange” styled rhythm attack. Savage fuzz lead and lyrics about getting out of your skull in Wildwood, NJ, 1968.

C. T. PILFERHOGG · Norton, VA
A brilliant song about sex and a girl who is not quite over her previous lover, with frantic lead guitar and jumping-the-gun intensity.

WHITE LIGHTNING
Zippy Caplan’s band after he split from Minneapolis legends the Litter. Unrelenting minimal guitar in a grab-your-throat trance rock zone; a hypnotic riff that gets more powerful by repetition. An uncanny revolving door ear worm of relentless intensity.

KINGDOM · Jennings, LA
Rudimentary prog rock moves with cosmic, intellectualized lyrics about losing the girl. Dramatic vocal, churning keys and guitar, and a ridiculously cool virtuoso overbite guitar break that boomerangs back with garage energy.

BLU-EREBES · Mount Airy, NC
Psychedelic embers flavored put-down about a shallow, self-absorbed girl who “keeps her mind in a plastic bag.” Slow-foot loopy wah-wah guitar break and a lurking, trippy organ intro.

PAWNBROKERS · Fargo, ND
A killer version of the Boz Scaggs song from the Steve Miller Band “Sailor” LP. Fab convoluted “Jumping Jack Flash” riff with well-timed fancy shifts, and an “ooh-wee-ooh-la-la” vocal hook.

MINERAL WATER · Centralia, WA
West coast outlaw style with nimble rhythm guitar and searing hard leads, as the singer takes free love into an urgent post-’60s detached zone: a desperate need to connect, but get it now.

BLACK WATCH · Pompano Beach, FL
Old school Chuck Berry style hard rock ’n’ roll shot through with fancy Jeff Beck Yardbirds lead guitar. When things are going south, just stumble on to the next scene and forget about it.

ONE MILE AHEAD · Albuquerque, NM
Opens with garage band ambience right out of 1965, but the vocal is a cosmic plea from ’71 to be socially aware. Rides out on maverick, crude experimental guitar feedback.