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Thunder & Roses – King of the Black Sunrise (1969) (@256)
07 Jun 2010
(Review from rateyourmusic.com, last.fm)
Thunder and Roses were an early power trio from Philadelphia/USA, making heavy bluesy psychedelic rock in the same vein of groups like Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience and Blue Cheer.
Their only album opens with “White Lace and Strange”. It is a free-flowing, mind-boggling heavy psych piece; the musical equivalent to an amorphous, three-dimensional mirage of stunning iridescence viewed while stoned. The song was later covered by Nirvana in the 90s.
The band does well by varying the level of intensity with “I Loved A Woman”, which is rather mellow heavy psych marked by aggressively strummed major (and seventh) chords where you’d least expect them, and some extremely psychedelic harmonies on the chorus.
Other notable tracks include the cover of Hendrix’s blues rock classic “Red House” and then we have a wacky little psychedelic hard rocker called “Moon Child”. “Dear Dream Maker” is a more solemn, minor-key psych venture, preceding the peaceful, half country/half psychedelic instrumental title track, and then there’s the 7 minute-plus closer; a splendid amalgamation of the band’s sound.
Line-up:
- Chris Bond / guitars, vocals
- Tom Schaffer / bass, vocals
- George Emme / drums
Track List:
01. White Lace And Strange – 3:15
02. I Love A Woman – 4:42
03. Country Life – 2:46
04. Red House – 5:43
05. Moon Child – 4:13
06. Dear Dream Maker – 3:37
07. King Of The Black Sunrise – 3:51
08. Open Up Your Eyes – 7:23
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about 1 year ago
THUNDER AND ROSES is one of SF master Ted Sturgeon’s most memorable stories; the US has been defeated and nuked to pieces and America’s most beloved rock star comes to the last military base, begging them in a song to hold back the nuclear retaliation and accept destruction so that mankind will live, even though it is the USSR who will survive and not the US.
“When you gave me your heart, you gave me the world,
You gave me the night and the day,
And thunder, and roses, and sweet green grass,
The sea, and soft wet clay.”
about 1 year ago
Thank you ! Great ,original Rock !
about 5 months ago
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