HOLDEN, RANDY (see also: Blue Cheer / Other Half) - RANDY HOLDEN - Population II +8 - AUS Progressive Line Expanded Edition - LISTEN - VERY RARE
price: 60,00 PLN / 15,00 EUR
ATTENTION! This is one of the best guitar albums of all time! An excellent, very heavy debut LP released in early 1970, recorded by the former guitarist of Other Half and Blue Cheer (from the brilliant second side of the LP "New! Improved!" - the best in the career of the creators of "Vincebus Eruptum"), and probably the heaviest and most intense guitar killer of the late 60s! The record was made as a duo (Holden - guitar, bass and vocals, and the former drummer of the band Kak, Chris Lockheed - drums). Some consider this album a prototype of doom metal (even before Black Sabbath) and stoner rock and pay 0-1000 for the original, mega-rare, original vinyl! Holden's story is very sad... In 1969 the guitarist got mercilessly into debt and bought incredibly powerful Sunn amplifiers - visible on the back cover of the vinyl. Then he fell out with the label, which was meddling in his music, and the entire pressed run of the album... stayed in warehouses and never reached the shops! At the same time (1970) Holden's manager, behind his back... sold all his equipment and took the money! Stripped of everything, tied to a contract and banned from performing, in debt, Randy slipped away from California to Central America and for many years made a living catching marlin (like a fisherman in Hemingway). He recorded nothing for the next 25 years... That is how the career of one of the most talented rock guitarists of all time turned out! I assure you that fans of intense guitar improvisations and heavy riffs in the Hendrix/Black Sabbath style will be delighted! This is the 2001 edition with an additional eight tracks from the nice album "Guitar God", recorded in 1996. A MUST!