The Brown Acid releases from RidingEasy Records are LP compilations featuring unknown and rare recordings from bands that never quite made it from the 1960s through the very early 1980s. What’s crazy is how well curated and assembled these albums are! True gems. This “first trip” was initially focused on US bands, but that changes immediately with volume two, haha. Anyhow, it all starts here!
A bit more from RidingEasy, as follows…
Brown Acid: The First Trip opens with the slithering buzzsaw guitars and hard-rock howl of Zeke’s’ “Box”, a monster that gives Blue Cheer a run for their leaden blues. Snow sways into “Sunflower” with a touch of Steppenwolf’s swagger and wind-in-their-hair wildness. Elsewhere, Zebra proves they were “Wasted” with a soul-inflected groove, while Bob Goodsite leans in on his wah-wah and phaser pedals, determined to out-Hendrix Jimi himself on “Faze.” Raw Meat’s “Stand By Girl” serves up a fierce, stomping riff intercut with Iron Butterfly style operatics. Bacchus kicks out a hostile sounding boogie, demanding to “Carry My Load.” Josefus caps it all off nicely with a hooky power-pop meets Bob Seger System meets Lollipop Shoppe anthem with the undeniably catchy chorus, “hard luck — keep truckin’!”
My copy of this appears to be a 2017 US repress that came with the “Ten Trips” box set that RidingEasy released in 2020.
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