#70srock — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #70srock, aggregated by home.social.
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Blues For Allah
#gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia #donnajeangodchaux #mickeyhart #billkreutzmann #philleash #bobweir #keithgodchaux September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. It's a highly experimental record -- even for the Dead -- that blends progressive rock, jazz fusion, and Middle Eastern musical influences. It is also the first album to…
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Blues For Allah
#gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia #donnajeangodchaux #mickeyhart #billkreutzmann #philleash #bobweir #keithgodchaux September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. It's a highly experimental record -- even for the Dead -- that blends progressive rock, jazz fusion, and Middle Eastern musical influences. It is also the first album to…
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Blues For Allah
#gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia #donnajeangodchaux #mickeyhart #billkreutzmann #philleash #bobweir #keithgodchaux September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. It's a highly experimental record -- even for the Dead -- that blends progressive rock, jazz fusion, and Middle Eastern musical influences. It is also the first album to…
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Blues For Allah
#gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia #donnajeangodchaux #mickeyhart #billkreutzmann #philleash #bobweir #keithgodchaux September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. It's a highly experimental record -- even for the Dead -- that blends progressive rock, jazz fusion, and Middle Eastern musical influences. It is also the first album to…
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Blues For Allah
#gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia #donnajeangodchaux #mickeyhart #billkreutzmann #philleash #bobweir #keithgodchaux September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. It's a highly experimental record -- even for the Dead -- that blends progressive rock, jazz fusion, and Middle Eastern musical influences. It is also the first album to…
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Brothers and Sisters
#allmanbrothersband #brothersandsisters #70smusic #70srock #blues #classicrock #dickeybetts #greggallman #southernrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #butchtrucks #berryoakley August 26, 1973 ~ Brothers and Sisters is the fourth studio album from the Allman Brothers Band. After the death of Duane in 1971, the Allman Brothers Band released Eat a Peach (1972) and afterwards, purchased a farm in Juliette, Georgia to become a "group…
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Stage Fright
#StageFright #theband #70srock #classicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #americana #garthhudson #levonhelm #rickdanko #richardmanuel #robbierobertson #toddrundgren #glynjohns The Band's third album is released on August 17, 1970. Arriving after the triumphs Music From Big Pink and their self-titled second album, the group was balancing their craft with the fraying edges of fame, literal exhaustion and some personal tensions. The album…
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Hasten Down The Wind turns 50
#lindaronstadt #hastendownthewind #70srock #rock #rockmusic #70smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #countryrock #poprock #karlabonoff #donhenley #waddywachtel #andrewgold #wendywaldman The Queen of Country Rock releases her third platinum-selling album in a row on August 9, 1976. It's a bit of a departure from her earlier country rock albums but her co-written songs -- ""Lo Siento Mi Vida with Kenny Edwards, and "Try Me Again" with Andrew…
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Don’t Look Back
#Boston #DontLookBack #70srock #classicrock #arenarock #hardrock #classicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #tomscholz #braddelp August 2, 1978 ~ Boston releases their second and most prolific album. The album sold over one million copies in the first ten days of its release, and was certified 7-times platinum in the US. Epic Records, the band's label, rushed the release because of the success of the monster debut album.
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John Barleycorn Must Die
#traffic #johnbarleycornmustdie #70srock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musicansky #stevewinwood #chriswood #jimcapaldi #progrock #progressiverock #jazzrock Traffic release their 4th on July 15, 1970. Steve Winwood was ready to make a solo album after the demise of Blind Faith in 1970 and actually cut a couple tracks. But he missed the musical companionship in the studio and invited Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi to sit in.
https://robinbannks.com/2026/07/15/john-barleycorn-must-die/
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At The Fillmore East
#AllmanBrothersBand #atthefillmoreeast #70srock #70smusic #bluesrock #jazzrock #southernrock #greggallman #dickeybetts #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #duaneallman #skydog July 6, 1971 ~ The Allman Brothers Band release what many call it one of the best live albums ever. In 2004, the album was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress, deemed to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" by the National…
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Countdown to Ecstasy
#steelydan #countdowntoecstasy #70srock #70smusic #bluesrock #classicrock #donaldfagen #jazzrock #walterbecker #rickderringer #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky Steely Dan release their second album on July 6, 1973. This is when Walter and Donald forged the band's true identity -- trading some of the rock of Can't Buy A Thrill for a tighter, jazzier fusion sound. The album's sort of unique in that it's the only Steely Dan album where…
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Workingman’s Dead
#TheGratefulDead #Workingmansdead #70srock #countryrock #folkrock #jerrygarcia #bobweir #roberthunter #rootsrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky Think this through with me ... The Dead release their 4th album on June 14, 1970. It come at a time when some decisions needed to be made -- the band was dealing with some heavy debt and the 70's music landscape was changing by the minute. They traded their trippy, sonic stuff for some…
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Some Girls
#RollingStones #somegirls #blues #70srock #70smusic #classicrock #country #rock #mickjagger #keithrichards #ronniewood #charliewatts #music #musicsky #musiciansky The Stones released Some Girls June 9, 1978. I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran twenty red lights in his honor. It's #269 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. BTW, for you young'ins ...It’s the first Stones album to feature Ronnie Wood as a full-timer. Peter Corriston…
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Big man, pig man … charade you are
January 21, 1977 ~ Pink Floyd release Animals in the USA -- the concept album loosely based on Orwell's "Animal Farm" and the sheep mentality of society. This could be the definition of "timeless." Listen to Animals by Pink Floyd on Amazon Music ... #pinkfloyd #animals #progrock #progressiverock #70srock #classicrock #rogerwaters #davidgilmour #richardwright #nickmason #music #musicsky #musiciansky #rockmusic
http://robinbannks.com/2026/01/21/big-man-pig-man-charade-you-are/
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Vinylsamstag: @supertramp_band – Paris (1980) 🇬🇧
#vinylsamstag #semmehorcht #supertramp #paris #supertrampparis #livealbum #doppellp #2lp #gatefold #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #nowspinning #spinit #recordcollector #recordcollection #recordoftheday #onmyturntable #classicrock #70srock #classicpop #progrock #artrock #rockmusic #audiophile #hifi #turntable #VinylSaturday #vinylmatinee
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Maaan, the #70s and melodic bass lines.
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My interview with guitarist Jimmy Burkard and long time drummer of The Sweet #RichieOnori that gave me a sugar rush! New lead singer, new music, abs upcoming tour dates. These rock legends aren't slowing down! Full interview available on all major streaming platforms! 🔥
#Sweet #SweetBand #ClassicRock #RockMusic #NewMusic #LiveMusic #RockLegends #TourAnnouncement #MusicInterview #GlamRock #70sRock #NewLeadSinger #RockAndRoll #MusicNews #ConcertNews #UpcomingShows #RockBand
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Elvis
Bro-in-law checked in after the Elvis Costello & The Attractions (with Charlie Sexton) gig at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee last night. ECTA are in Madison Sunday. Use as you see fit. #elviscostello #elviscostelloandtheattractions #charliesexton #unionstation #70srock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #80srock #classicrock #milwaukeewi #madisonwi
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Burn the System Down and Start a Fire (Rock, HipHop)
https://soundcloud.com/uninoize/burn-the-system-down-and-start#neighborhoodkids #startafire #billytalent #90smusic #90s #teaparty #sevenlions #seespotrun #inbreds #rentals #elliottsmith #metric #mrrobot #velvetunderground #70smusic #70srock #altrock #indierock
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Top 10
My Top 10 favorite Bands/Artists: My Top 10 most favorite Bands/Artists: - This list of my Top 10 favorite Bands/Artists. Is by no means in any particular order. With the exception of the first three Bands/Artists. I grew up listening to a wide range of music. Being born in the late 70's. I grew up to listening to classic Rock n Roll, & a little bit of country music. As the 80's, & 90's came. My change in music I listened to also changed. Going from listening to Rock n Roll, to hair metal, […] -
Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!
I have no doubt that it's the best rock concert ever put on record.~ Lester Bangs September 4, 1970 ~ The Rolling Stones release their 2nd live album. Listen to Get Your Ya Ya's Out! by The Rolling Stones on Amazon Music ... #therollingstones #70srock #bluesrock #charliewatts #getyeryayasout #keithrichards #mickjagger #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky
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Blues For Allah
September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. Listen to Blues for Allah by The Grateful Dead on Amazon Music ... #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia
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Blues For Allah
September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. Listen to Blues for Allah by The Grateful Dead on Amazon Music ... #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia
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Blues For Allah
September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. Listen to Blues for Allah by The Grateful Dead on Amazon Music ... #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia
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Blues For Allah
September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. Listen to Blues for Allah by The Grateful Dead on Amazon Music ... #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia
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Blues For Allah
September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. Listen to Blues for Allah by The Grateful Dead on Amazon Music ... #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #jerrygarcia
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🎵 🎶 🎵
The machine of a dream
Such a clean machine
With the pistons a-pumping
And the hubcaps all gleamI'm In Love With My Car (1974)*
-- Queen* - the B-side to Bohemian Rhapsody
#queen #queenBand #lyrics #rockLyrics #albumLyrics #musicLyrics #70sRock #70sMusic #progRock #hardRock #arenaRock #classicRock #popRock #popMusic #britishRock #music #rockAndRoll #rockMusic
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Rust Never Sleeps
June 22, 1979 ~ Neil Young and Crazy Horse release what ends up being #296 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It's as close to perfection as you can get. Listen to Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young and Crazy Horse on Amazon Music ... #NeilYoungandCrazyHorse #neilyoung #shakey #70srock #70smusic #classicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky
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The Stones on a flat-bed truck
May 31, 1975: The Stones hold a press conference to announce the Sticky Fingers Tour. On the back of a flat-bed truck. #RollingStones #StickyFingers #70srock #music #musicsky #musiciansky #rockmusic #keithrichards #mickjagger #charliewatts #ronniewood
http://robinbannks.com/2025/05/31/may-31-1975-the-stones-hold-a-press-conference/
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Dark Side of The Moon
Monster. Released March 1, 1973 ... #55 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and selected for preservation in the US National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Check out The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd on Amazon Music #pinkfloyd #darksideofthemoon #70srock #classicrock #progrock #rogerwaters #davidgilmour #richardwright #nickmason #music #musicsky…
https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/dark-side-of-the-moon/
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Will you do the fandango?
November 21, 1975 ~ Queen release A Night at The Opera in the USA. It's considered by many to be their best and one of the greatest albums of all time. It's #128 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018. #Queen #anightattheopera #70srock #classicrock #glamrock #hardrock #poprock #progressiverock #progrock #freddiemercury #brianmay #roythomasbaker Listen to A Night At…
https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/will-you-do-the-fandango/
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Zuma
#7 from Shakey is released on November 10, 1975. "Danger Bird" can not be played loud enough. #neilyoung #zuma #shakey #70srock #countryrock #folkrock #neilyoungandcrazyhorse #rock Listen to Zuma by Neil Young and Crazy Horse on Amazon Music ...
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By Dear Hollow
Vida Blue feels like watching a baseball game in the ’70s with your alcoholic dad. You can hear the Oakland crowd go wild, and Dad’s drunken groans echo around the wood-slatted family room. You wince as he tightens his fists. You can hear your mom making beef stroganoff in the kitchen with the radio going, smell the weighty hamburger meat right before she adds the roux and a healthy helping of apathy. It’ll make your bones grow, she whispers when you ask. The fuck you say, your dad growls, crumpling the can of his eighth beer and throwing it at the trash can’s broken teeth. You try to watch the game and witness Dodgers hitter Van Joshua out by Rollie Fingers on a groundout to end the series. Oakland’s Swingin’ A’s in a threepeat, 4-1. Mom and Dad start throwing fists and divorce threats like there’s a World Series at stake, and you can’t tell if you should cheer for the A’s or feel sad for the Dodgers because your parents are fighting over beef stroganoff and growing boys.
Vida Blue, Mamaleek’s ninth full-length, mourns the 2023 death of member Eric Livingston – paralleled by the Oakland Athletics’ relocation to Las Vegas. It reflects on legendary pitcher and namesake Vida Blue’s legacy – and Livingston’s. In honor and homage, Vida Blue takes the squelching and jangling hemorrhaging cyst-blues template of 2022’s impressive Diner Coffee, painting a ’70’s folk-, blues-, prog- and jazz-rock sheen across it with reckless abandon. Bass lines are the backbone of each track, frequently shattered and crippled in flute or brass explosions; jazzy southern rock and metallic licks drool across the bandstand; abrasive noise and groaning post-punk drive their teeth into the proceedings. Ultimately, Vida Blue is everything that makes Mamaleek completely divisive – and utterly brilliant.
Vida Blue does a good job capitalizing upon Diner Coffee, unsteadying the Oxbow-esque blues-rock foundation and its avant-garde elements. It adds to Mamaleek’s freeform figure, enhanced by the brothers’ unhinged roars, agonizing groans, and disconcerting spoken word. From the opening lick of “Tegucigalpa,” a ZZ Top-esque guitar drawl colliding with the Jethro Tull’s soothing flute, it does its damnedest to draw you in with its plethora of avant-garde stylings only to pervert them into a cheese ball of rot. While the elevator music of “Vileness Slim” and the funky bass lines of “Vida Blue” and “Hatful of Rain” are cracked by brass and flute ejaculations, crescendos of discordant plonks and nostalgic chords seamlessly war in an undecided battle – elements like chimes, harmonica, backing choirs, noise, and even whistling adding to the trademark jangle. Big band orchestra a la Glenn Miller sprawl across tracks like “Vida Blue” and interlude “Momentary Laughter Concealed from My Eyes” add a tantalizing question mark in sudden yearning romance.
While Diner Coffee’s foundation of grotesque jazz lent itself to Miles Davis-esque moments of modal clarity, Vida Blue is much more fluid in its expressions, a grin of melody that shakes hands with the surrounding chaos – landmarks likewise including a tasteful dose that adds texture and nuance to the ugliness. “Ancient Souls, No Longer Sorrowful” features a droning southern rock line that fuses into infectious brass explosions before collapsing into a piano line that morphs from wildly improvised to suddenly beautiful, before returning to a Tom Waits-esque doo-wop bastardization. “Black Pudding Served at the Horn of the Altar” features an off-kilter post-metal rhythm that Isis would be proud of beneath a slowed pedal effect of Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name Of,” achieving a strangely liturgical aura through its ominous chanting. Finally, ten-minute behemoth “Legion of Bottom Deck Dealers” feels ironically the most traditional, Joy Division-esque moans harmonizing atop a strange fumbling of glitching metallic guitar riffs that swing between beautiful and discordant.
As always, Mamaleek features a lot to unpack – discordant, freeform, and downright painful at times. Vida Blue is its most glorious train wreck yet, collapsing upon the fucked up foundation laid by Diner Coffee. In ways that pay homage to their fallen bandmate and to the city that moved on without the A’s lefty pitcher, the act’s ninth offering feels simultaneously more maniacal, more exploratory – yet the jangling trademark works stunningly in its favor – and, dare I say, Mamaleek feels more human. But as the saying goes, as the sounds of both baseball and domestic discord fade, you’re left with only the memories.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: The Flenser
Websites: mamaleek.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/Mamaleek
Releases Worldwide: August 9th, 2024#2024 #40 #70sRock #AmericanMetal #Aug24 #AvantGardeMetal #Blues #ChamberMusic #FunkMetal #GlennMillerOrchestra #Isis #Jazz #JethroTull #Mamaleek #MilesDavis #NoiseRock #Oxbow #postPunk #ProgressiveRock #RageAgainstTheMachine #Review #Reviews #TheFlenser #TomWaits #VidaBlue #ZZTop
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By Dear Hollow
Vida Blue feels like watching a baseball game in the ’70s with your alcoholic dad. You can hear the Oakland crowd go wild, and Dad’s drunken groans echo around the wood-slatted family room. You wince as he tightens his fists. You can hear your mom making beef stroganoff in the kitchen with the radio going, smell the weighty hamburger meat right before she adds the roux and a healthy helping of apathy. It’ll make your bones grow, she whispers when you ask. The fuck you say, your dad growls, crumpling the can of his eighth beer and throwing it at the trash can’s broken teeth. You try to watch the game and witness Dodgers hitter Van Joshua out by Rollie Fingers on a groundout to end the series. Oakland’s Swingin’ A’s in a threepeat, 4-1. Mom and Dad start throwing fists and divorce threats like there’s a World Series at stake, and you can’t tell if you should cheer for the A’s or feel sad for the Dodgers because your parents are fighting over beef stroganoff and growing boys.
Vida Blue, Mamaleek’s ninth full-length, mourns the 2023 death of member Eric Livingston – paralleled by the Oakland Athletics’ relocation to Las Vegas. It reflects on legendary pitcher and namesake Vida Blue’s legacy – and Livingston’s. In honor and homage, Vida Blue takes the squelching and jangling hemorrhaging cyst-blues template of 2022’s impressive Diner Coffee, painting a ’70’s folk-, blues-, prog- and jazz-rock sheen across it with reckless abandon. Bass lines are the backbone of each track, frequently shattered and crippled in flute or brass explosions; jazzy southern rock and metallic licks drool across the bandstand; abrasive noise and groaning post-punk drive their teeth into the proceedings. Ultimately, Vida Blue is everything that makes Mamaleek completely divisive – and utterly brilliant.
Vida Blue does a good job capitalizing upon Diner Coffee, unsteadying the Oxbow-esque blues-rock foundation and its avant-garde elements. It adds to Mamaleek’s freeform figure, enhanced by the brothers’ unhinged roars, agonizing groans, and disconcerting spoken word. From the opening lick of “Tegucigalpa,” a ZZ Top-esque guitar drawl colliding with the Jethro Tull’s soothing flute, it does its damnedest to draw you in with its plethora of avant-garde stylings only to pervert them into a cheese ball of rot. While the elevator music of “Vileness Slim” and the funky bass lines of “Vida Blue” and “Hatful of Rain” are cracked by brass and flute ejaculations, crescendos of discordant plonks and nostalgic chords seamlessly war in an undecided battle – elements like chimes, harmonica, backing choirs, noise, and even whistling adding to the trademark jangle. Big band orchestra a la Glenn Miller sprawl across tracks like “Vida Blue” and interlude “Momentary Laughter Concealed from My Eyes” add a tantalizing question mark in sudden yearning romance.
While Diner Coffee’s foundation of grotesque jazz lent itself to Miles Davis-esque moments of modal clarity, Vida Blue is much more fluid in its expressions, a grin of melody that shakes hands with the surrounding chaos – landmarks likewise including a tasteful dose that adds texture and nuance to the ugliness. “Ancient Souls, No Longer Sorrowful” features a droning southern rock line that fuses into infectious brass explosions before collapsing into a piano line that morphs from wildly improvised to suddenly beautiful, before returning to a Tom Waits-esque doo-wop bastardization. “Black Pudding Served at the Horn of the Altar” features an off-kilter post-metal rhythm that Isis would be proud of beneath a slowed pedal effect of Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name Of,” achieving a strangely liturgical aura through its ominous chanting. Finally, ten-minute behemoth “Legion of Bottom Deck Dealers” feels ironically the most traditional, Joy Division-esque moans harmonizing atop a strange fumbling of glitching metallic guitar riffs that swing between beautiful and discordant.
As always, Mamaleek features a lot to unpack – discordant, freeform, and downright painful at times. Vida Blue is its most glorious train wreck yet, collapsing upon the fucked up foundation laid by Diner Coffee. In ways that pay homage to their fallen bandmate and to the city that moved on without the A’s lefty pitcher, the act’s ninth offering feels simultaneously more maniacal, more exploratory – yet the jangling trademark works stunningly in its favor – and, dare I say, Mamaleek feels more human. But as the saying goes, as the sounds of both baseball and domestic discord fade, you’re left with only the memories.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: The Flenser
Websites: mamaleek.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/Mamaleek
Releases Worldwide: August 9th, 2024#2024 #40 #70sRock #AmericanMetal #Aug24 #AvantGardeMetal #Blues #ChamberMusic #FunkMetal #GlennMillerOrchestra #Isis #Jazz #JethroTull #Mamaleek #MilesDavis #NoiseRock #Oxbow #postPunk #ProgressiveRock #RageAgainstTheMachine #Review #Reviews #TheFlenser #TomWaits #VidaBlue #ZZTop
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By Dear Hollow
Vida Blue feels like watching a baseball game in the ’70s with your alcoholic dad. You can hear the Oakland crowd go wild, and Dad’s drunken groans echo around the wood-slatted family room. You wince as he tightens his fists. You can hear your mom making beef stroganoff in the kitchen with the radio going, smell the weighty hamburger meat right before she adds the roux and a healthy helping of apathy. It’ll make your bones grow, she whispers when you ask. The fuck you say, your dad growls, crumpling the can of his eighth beer and throwing it at the trash can’s broken teeth. You try to watch the game and witness Dodgers hitter Van Joshua out by Rollie Fingers on a groundout to end the series. Oakland’s Swingin’ A’s in a threepeat, 4-1. Mom and Dad start throwing fists and divorce threats like there’s a World Series at stake, and you can’t tell if you should cheer for the A’s or feel sad for the Dodgers because your parents are fighting over beef stroganoff and growing boys.
Vida Blue, Mamaleek’s ninth full-length, mourns the 2023 death of member Eric Livingston – paralleled by the Oakland Athletics’ relocation to Las Vegas. It reflects on legendary pitcher and namesake Vida Blue’s legacy – and Livingston’s. In honor and homage, Vida Blue takes the squelching and jangling hemorrhaging cyst-blues template of 2022’s impressive Diner Coffee, painting a ’70’s folk-, blues-, prog- and jazz-rock sheen across it with reckless abandon. Bass lines are the backbone of each track, frequently shattered and crippled in flute or brass explosions; jazzy southern rock and metallic licks drool across the bandstand; abrasive noise and groaning post-punk drive their teeth into the proceedings. Ultimately, Vida Blue is everything that makes Mamaleek completely divisive – and utterly brilliant.
Vida Blue does a good job capitalizing upon Diner Coffee, unsteadying the Oxbow-esque blues-rock foundation and its avant-garde elements. It adds to Mamaleek’s freeform figure, enhanced by the brothers’ unhinged roars, agonizing groans, and disconcerting spoken word. From the opening lick of “Tegucigalpa,” a ZZ Top-esque guitar drawl colliding with the Jethro Tull’s soothing flute, it does its damnedest to draw you in with its plethora of avant-garde stylings only to pervert them into a cheese ball of rot. While the elevator music of “Vileness Slim” and the funky bass lines of “Vida Blue” and “Hatful of Rain” are cracked by brass and flute ejaculations, crescendos of discordant plonks and nostalgic chords seamlessly war in an undecided battle – elements like chimes, harmonica, backing choirs, noise, and even whistling adding to the trademark jangle. Big band orchestra a la Glenn Miller sprawl across tracks like “Vida Blue” and interlude “Momentary Laughter Concealed from My Eyes” add a tantalizing question mark in sudden yearning romance.
While Diner Coffee’s foundation of grotesque jazz lent itself to Miles Davis-esque moments of modal clarity, Vida Blue is much more fluid in its expressions, a grin of melody that shakes hands with the surrounding chaos – landmarks likewise including a tasteful dose that adds texture and nuance to the ugliness. “Ancient Souls, No Longer Sorrowful” features a droning southern rock line that fuses into infectious brass explosions before collapsing into a piano line that morphs from wildly improvised to suddenly beautiful, before returning to a Tom Waits-esque doo-wop bastardization. “Black Pudding Served at the Horn of the Altar” features an off-kilter post-metal rhythm that Isis would be proud of beneath a slowed pedal effect of Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name Of,” achieving a strangely liturgical aura through its ominous chanting. Finally, ten-minute behemoth “Legion of Bottom Deck Dealers” feels ironically the most traditional, Joy Division-esque moans harmonizing atop a strange fumbling of glitching metallic guitar riffs that swing between beautiful and discordant.
As always, Mamaleek features a lot to unpack – discordant, freeform, and downright painful at times. Vida Blue is its most glorious train wreck yet, collapsing upon the fucked up foundation laid by Diner Coffee. In ways that pay homage to their fallen bandmate and to the city that moved on without the A’s lefty pitcher, the act’s ninth offering feels simultaneously more maniacal, more exploratory – yet the jangling trademark works stunningly in its favor – and, dare I say, Mamaleek feels more human. But as the saying goes, as the sounds of both baseball and domestic discord fade, you’re left with only the memories.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: The Flenser
Websites: mamaleek.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/Mamaleek
Releases Worldwide: August 9th, 2024#2024 #40 #70sRock #AmericanMetal #Aug24 #AvantGardeMetal #Blues #ChamberMusic #FunkMetal #GlennMillerOrchestra #Isis #Jazz #JethroTull #Mamaleek #MilesDavis #NoiseRock #Oxbow #postPunk #ProgressiveRock #RageAgainstTheMachine #Review #Reviews #TheFlenser #TomWaits #VidaBlue #ZZTop
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Blues For Allah
September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. Listen to Blues for Allah by The Grateful Dead on Amazon Music ... #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock
https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/blues-for-allah/
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Blues For Allah
September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. Listen to Blues for Allah by The Grateful Dead on Amazon Music ... #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock
https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/blues-for-allah/
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Blues For Allah
September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. Listen to Blues for Allah by The Grateful Dead on Amazon Music ... #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock
https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/blues-for-allah/
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Blues For Allah
September 1, 1975 ~ The Grateful Dead release Blues For Allah. Listen to Blues for Allah by The Grateful Dead on Amazon Music ... #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #70srock #folkrock #progressiverock #psychedelicrock
https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/blues-for-allah/