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Purchase Live CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Crazy Horse CD (1971)
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 $6.09   
Since Crazy Horse first came to public attention as the backing band for Neil Young in concert and on his albums Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush, it makes sense to expect that the band on its own would play something similar to the hard guitar rock and country-rock heard on those albums, albeit without Young's distinctively quirky singing and songwriting, and that is what one hears to a large extent on the debut album Crazy Horse. (Although this is their first recording under that name, core members Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina have appeared previously on record as part of the doo wop group ...
| | Soup CD (1970)
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$14.05 
| | Tongue Keep On Truckin' CDs (1969)
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$11.29
KEEP ON TRUCKIN' contains all the tracks from the original LP of the same title as well as 2 previously unreleased songs recorded in 1970.
Yet another rock band that emerged out of the copious student population of countercultural Wisconsin, Tongue spent ten years developing into one of the most road-savvy ensembles in the state. But Keep on Truckin' was recorded near the beginning of their career, thereby capturing the band during the early peak of their powers. That power doesn't always manifest itself on their sole album, but it remains an enjoyable effort. There are significant similarities between Tongue and fellow Wisconsin band Tayles. Tongue doesn't dip into the good-time roll of Tayles' music too often, but they do have a blues-based, organ-heavy sound that is primarily earnest while verging at times on the musically whimsical, as on songs like "Get Your Shit Together" and the fabulous "Jazz on the Rag," a falsetto beauty like nothing else on the album. On the quickie country interlude ...
| | Supertramp Even In The Quietest Moments CD (1977) Remastered
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$7.55 
| | Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection DVDs (1931) Full Frame
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 $23.65
| | Doobie Brothers, The - Rockin' Down The Highway: The Wildlife Concert DVD (1996)
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$9.69 
| | Golden Age Of American Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 3 CD (1994)
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$15.05
| | Minus The Bear Highly Refined Pirates CD (2002)
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$13.85
They may call this math rock but -- contrary to the attempt at pigeonholing -- it rarely gets boring. Which is usually a good sign that the usual musical designations don't really apply to Minus the Bear. The only question that comes up during a casual or earnest listen to their latest release, Highly Refined Pirates, is this: where would you place these guys if you had to? Then comes the rejoinder: who cares? Filled with complex guitar fingerwork, aural synth embellishment, and spiraling arrangements that recall everything from King Crimson to More Songs About Building and Food-era Talking Heads to later work from bands like Fugazi (especially The Argument) and Juno, Highly Refined Pirates is a trip through what's great about newer indie rock that doesn't sound like it's trying to be punk without the danger. Many songs on Highly Refined Pirates float ethereally above their conventionally driving drum and guitar lines, and pack a serious lyrical punch to boot. Such as "Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo" -- comedy! -- which boasts one of the coolest choruses ever committed to memory ("You said, 'My life's like a bad movie'/I said, 'That's true of all of us'/You said 'I've got to wake up so f**king early'/I said 'Maybe the director's turned on us'). Or "Let's Play Guitar in a Five-Guitar Band," a dense collection of echo-heavy vocals, light arpeggiation, distant distortion, and enough hammer-ons to make Eddie Van Halen proud. ...
| | Psychedelic States: Texas In The 60'S Vol. 1 CD (2003)
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$11.59
Outside the confines of the California state line, Texas had arguably the most significant -- and unconventional -- psychedelic circuit in the whole of '60s America, tied up as it was with Tex-Mex border music, modified country accouterments (as evidenced by the 13th Floor Elevators' electrified jug), and that vast, boiling wasteland of oil derricks, longhorn cattle, good ol' boys, and, undoubtedly, a particularly potent genus of psychotropic cactus. This first Texas edition in Gear Fab's ongoing Psychedelic States series scales back on the number of songs (just 18 this time around) and also, for the first time since the initial volume in the series, includes a number of recordings from relatively well-known artists (Roy Head, with an awesome, if uncharacteristic, rave-up) and bands (Bubble Puppy, which had a 1969 Top Ten hit with "Hot Smoke and Sassafras") that have previously been compiled on past LPs. The album benefits from both circumstances. This is by a far shot the leanest, meanest, and most consistently strong collection of the series since that cornerstone original volume. It is, in fact, positively gushing with an abundance of smokin' acidified garage rock. The completely deranged "You Knock Me Down" by unknown Houston band Airhead is the only brown acid here. Recorded in 1966, the song sounds, through the amateurish recording quality, like Guns N' Roses on a nightmarish bender. (Seriously.) Perhaps manna for some, but not likely for the average consumer of a psych compilation. Once you get past said caterwauling, though, the rest of the album is pure contact high. Particularly heady are Michael's "Caretaker," the Countdown 5's "Candy," both Bubble Puppy tracks (neither of which appeared on its album, A Gathering of Promises), A440's "Marenthelia Glows in the Dark," and the Roky Erickson-ish "Don't Be That Way" by the Reasons Why. But this volume is pretty outstanding from one side of the high to the other. ~ Stanton Swihart
Gear Fab heads to the Lone ...
| | 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Kingdom Come CD (2003)
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$6.89 
This is part of Universal Records "20th Century Masters: The Millenium Collection" series.
Yeah, Kingdom Come were a bit too enamored with Led Zeppelin on their first album, and their career didn't last much longer after that, but at the very least they were one of the very examples of what was storming the rock charts back in 1987-1988. Zep-styled riffs and that sorta watered-down boogie-guitar swagger were everywhere, and Kingdom Come were just one of the many bands getting loads and loads of criticism from purists. Oddly, though, the kids (for a short time) loved it, and the records sold enough to convince those at Polydor to release this collection of some of their more well-known tunes. Obviously, it's not a collection that's gonna be picked up for its artistic integrity ("Get It On" sounds like a half-baked "Kashmir"), but it's probably fair to say that Kingdom Come really wasn't too concerned with "art." This collection works because it's a fairly good snapshot of the kind of rock that very, very briefly made quite an impact in the late '80s. If acid-washed jeans and big hair were your thing, then this collection was tailor-made. ~ Chris True
Recorded at Little Mountain Studios, Vancouvver, Canada; Goodnighht ...
| | Sid Vicious Search & Destroy CD (2004)
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$9.89 
Besides hardcore Sex Pistols fans, few know that Sid Vicious played a few solo shows in late 1978. With a set list comprised entirely of cover songs of proto-punk classics, and songs that the Sex Pistols either covered early on, ...
| | Bandoneon: Electrotango CD (2006)
Live songs
$19.49
| | Baillieston Bare Suites From The Kitchen Table CD (2005)
Live album
$16.45
| | Vagon Chicano Los Hijos Ausentes De Mexico CD (2008)
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$9.75
| | Poggs CD (2008)
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$16.45
The Poggs are a four-piece rock n roll don’t touch that wire it’s live band of gypsies. The group is composed of Will Brand on vocals and rhythm guitar, Jim Goza on vocals and lead guitar, Tyler W. Jones on percussion, and Justus Moll (affectionately referred to as “Bustus”) on bass. The songs on the new album were written as a collaborative effort.If you could hold the Poggs in the palm of your hand, and examine them closely, you might never turn away. They are the quintessential college-town live band; an assortment of vibrant characters in love with life and the joy of playing together, and a witty lot to boot.Their style is a blend of Sublime-esque reggae and hard-driving rock crowned with searing guitar phrases and infused with an original quality only describable as their own. Goza’s guitar burns like a flame-thrower as the rhythm section pounds out heart-attacks and Brand’s melodious vocals resonate over the raucous din. All in their early twenties, the Poggs play as if tomorrow is just an abstract concept.The band was started in 2004 by high-school-buddies Brand and Goza after a chance reunion at OfficeMax. They played as a duo at parties for over a year before taking on a full band. The first time Tyler W. Jones (their current drummer and a major creative force in the band) heard them play was at one such party. Jones was a session musician specializing in jazz who sat in with various bands in Fayetteville for shows and recordings. One night he happened to be at a party where Brand and Goza were playing. According to Jones, the tadpole Poggs had ripped the railing off of the backporch of an abandoned house and had set their equipment and mood lighting on this makeshift stage. They only managed to play two songs, including B.B King’s The Thrill Is Gone, before the cops came, but Jones was hooked. He said that what did it for him was that Brand laughed and smiled the whole time he played.Bustus joined the band on a lark, when Brand and Goza needed a bassist to accompany them to play at a friend’s high school reunion. After that beer-guzzling Bacchanalia, he just never left.The songs on the self-titled album seem to be inspired with the central ethic – “We’re coming to party…Won’t you come with us.” At least this is how the initial track Tony Montana plays out, with Brand imploring the audience to join in the ...
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