{"title":"Brown Acid","description":"\u003cp\u003eRidingEasy Records has been running the deepest dig in heavy rock since 2015. Private-press 45s from bands who booked one studio day, pressed three hundred copies, played the VFW hall and then went back to work. The whole series, plus the coffee we blended for it.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-fourth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid: Fourth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you thought Riding Easy was getting close to the end of the Brown Acid series with their last Trip, you were dead wrong. They're only just getting rolling. The well of privately released hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal 45s is deep and nowhere near tapped out. Most of these records, barely released and never properly distributed, were never easy to find, unless you're willing to dig. Hard calluses have formed from handling the shovel and sifting through a lot of dirt, but here are another ten tremendous tracks to share with all the heavy heads out there. This volume brings together eight insanely rare and skullcrushingly heavy 45s as well as two previously unreleased bangers.The records included on this volume vary in rarity, but at least two of them were virtually unknown until Riding Easy discovered them. You'll win the lottery before you find copies of all of the original 45s in even the best record stores. Many of those included in this volume are owned only by the members of the bands and some of the band members don't even have personal copies. That's just how hard these guys hit it back in the day! It's lucky some of these guys are still alive and well enough to give permission to use their masters.Brown Acid is here to stay-plug in, turn up, and freak out, this is what rock 'n' roll is all about!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51595921752359,"sku":"603111719511","price":28.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/cover_7e695a86-55c5-4be4-ad49-fa1e7c5c5564.jpg?v=1787155750"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-eighteenth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Eighteenth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. Eighteen and i like it... if you survived trips 1-17 with one tiny speck of psychedelic sunshine intact, Brown Acid The 18th Trip will be your coming of age nightmare. Vintage underground '70s hard rock, coming at you from bizarre angles, local scene wasteland America when everybody was out for themselves and the drugs went bleak. The guitars kill, the attitude is twisted, even the sex is headed down the wrong road. Real people, no compromise, pure and potent. Get stoked, take the 18th Trip and know that the artists will get paid for pulverizing your soul!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597120733479,"sku":"603111763811","price":30.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/4319737-3130069.jpg?v=1783430172"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-seventeenth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Seventeenth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eLucky number seventeen? Believe it. Those at Brown Acid have been scouring the highways and byways of America for even more hidden stashes of psych \/ garage \/ proto-punk madness from the so-called Aquarian Age. There's no flower power here, though-just acid casualties, rock stompers and major freakouts. As always, the songs have been officially licensed, and all the artists get paid. Some samples of this trip include: Stone Hedge were a seven-piece rock band out of Michigan with a penchant for Creedence and anthropomorphism. \"\"Smokey Bear\"\" is their 1972 tribute to the official mascot of the U.S. Forest Services-not to mention the A side of their sole single-and it recalls the kind of organ-drenched swamp jam that soundtracked many a Burt Reynolds flick back in the day.Cedar Rapids, Iowa, may not be known as a cultural mecca, but they did produce Truth \u0026amp; Janey. This deadly hard rock trio delivered their holy grail full-length, No Rest For The Wicked, back in 1976. \"\"Around and Around\"\" is a Chuck Berry cover that originally appeared on a 1973 single the band released under the earlier name Truth.Originally released in 1973, \"\"High School Letter\"\" is the debut single from San Diego rock squad Glory. This infectious bonehead cruncher features future Beat Farmer Jerry Raney and the original rhythm section of Iron Butterfly in bassist Greg Willis and drummer Jack Pinney. Glory is what they got up to after their former bandmates left for L.A.'s garden of Eden.\"\"Jack the Ripper\"\" is a mercilessly bootlegged Cleveland classic from 1978 with a serrated punk edge and vocals that recall Mick Blood of Aussie savages the Lime Spiders. Or maybe it's the other way around-the Lime Spiders formed the year after Strychnine carved off this lethal paean to the infamous Whitechapel slasher of olde.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597120864551,"sku":"603111759111","price":30.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/4258430-3050938.jpg?v=1783430173"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-eighteenth-trip-cd","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Eighteenth Trip (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCD edition. Eighteen and i like it... if you survived trips 1-17 with one tiny speck of psychedelic sunshine intact, Brown Acid The 18th Trip will be your coming of age nightmare. Vintage underground '70s hard rock, coming at you from bizarre angles, local scene wasteland America when everybody was out for themselves and the drugs went bleak. The guitars kill, the attitude is twisted, even the sex is headed down the wrong road. Real people, no compromise, pure and potent. Get stoked, take the 18th Trip and know that the artists will get paid for pulverizing your soul!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597121159463,"sku":"603111763828","price":16.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/4319738-3130070.jpg?v=1783430177"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-nineteenth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Nineteenth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. There is NO LIGHT at the end of this tunnel! BROWN ACID: The Nineteenth Trip fires ten more savage nails deep into the coffin of '60s psychedelic idealism. This series is THE premier top dog journey into the rarest and most wasted early local eruptions of heavy rock, unleashed at a time when harsh reality, human nature and disillusionment drove prevailing underground rock glimpses of a 'better' world into ever darker selfabsorbed comedowns. Mind expanding '60s love energies transform into toxic aggression right before your ears! The great thing is that these moves are totally justified, 'we are all one' is cosmically good in theory but 'get it while you can' ends up perhaps better advice in the light of human history. Both of those angles of awareness can coexist, some of these bands deliver unrelenting sideways positive energy but they aren't over-thinking it, they are youthfully driven by hunger for life and satisfying the undeniable urges their DNA thrusts upon them. Sonically, the results in the BROWN ACID series never fail to breathe hot and heavy, the guitars kill it every time, the variety of approaches these tracks take keep the scenery shifting into new places. The key element that makes this stuff so potent is that THEY (the bands) are in control. Captured genuinely with no compromise, right out of the gate. No doubt they had ambition with high hopes for the future when they laid down these primal efforts, the fact that they captured their energy so vividly at a moment in time when the only direction imaginable was UP creates a hard hitting life affirming subtext to the proceedings. That is the core energy of blues and rock and roll, dealing with the struggles of existence by flipping a gigantic 'what the fuck' high energy bird right in the face of the moronic defective reality these bands were born into. If you take this stuff too 'seriously' you are utterly missing the point, it is beyond analysis, it is life itself! No amount of thinking will get you there quicker! BROWN ACID: The Nineteenth Trip is scary... The bottomless pit of deranged vintage heavy rock the series presents continually expands over time... one deadly dose too many and you might be trapped in the bad trip loop forever... enjoy it or lose your mind!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597143081255,"sku":"767461096675","price":31.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/4383257-3281616.jpg?v=1783430515"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-nineteenth-trip-cd","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Nineteenth Trip (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCD edition. There is NO LIGHT at the end of this tunnel! BROWN ACID: The Nineteenth Trip fires ten more savage nails deep into the coffin of '60s psychedelic idealism. This series is THE premier top dog journey into the rarest and most wasted early local eruptions of heavy rock, unleashed at a time when harsh reality, human nature and disillusionment drove prevailing underground rock glimpses of a 'better' world into ever darker selfabsorbed comedowns. Mind expanding '60s love energies transform into toxic aggression right before your ears! The great thing is that these moves are totally justified, 'we are all one' is cosmically good in theory but 'get it while you can' ends up perhaps better advice in the light of human history. Both of those angles of awareness can coexist, some of these bands deliver unrelenting sideways positive energy but they aren't over-thinking it, they are youthfully driven by hunger for life and satisfying the undeniable urges their DNA thrusts upon them. Sonically, the results in the BROWN ACID series never fail to breathe hot and heavy, the guitars kill it every time, the variety of approaches these tracks take keep the scenery shifting into new places. The key element that makes this stuff so potent is that THEY (the bands) are in control. Captured genuinely with no compromise, right out of the gate. No doubt they had ambition with high hopes for the future when they laid down these primal efforts, the fact that they captured their energy so vividly at a moment in time when the only direction imaginable was UP creates a hard hitting life affirming subtext to the proceedings. That is the core energy of blues and rock and roll, dealing with the struggles of existence by flipping a gigantic 'what the fuck' high energy bird right in the face of the moronic defective reality these bands were born into. If you take this stuff too 'seriously' you are utterly missing the point, it is beyond analysis, it is life itself! No amount of thinking will get you there quicker! BROWN ACID: The Nineteenth Trip is scary... The bottomless pit of deranged vintage heavy rock the series presents continually expands over time... one deadly dose too many and you might be trapped in the bad trip loop forever... enjoy it or lose your mind!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597143671079,"sku":"767461096620","price":18.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/4383258-3281615.jpg?v=1783430521"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-sixteenth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Sixteenth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eSixteen trips might fry the fragile psyche of the average teenager, but the hoary old heads at Brown Acid boiled their brain pans long ago! As such, Riding Easy is bringing even more hard rock, heavy psych, and garage rock rarities from the North American wasteland of the 1970s. From L.A. to Youngstown, OH, from Toronto to Charlotte, The Sixteenth Trip has got everything covered. As always, original copies of these 45s would cost a pretty penny-if one could find 'em in the first place. And by now one knows the drill: This ain't no bootleg. All songs are officially licensed.This sixteenth installment kicks off with \"\"Shuckin' and Jiving,\"\" a seven-minute power jam from L.A.'s kings of garage psych, the Seeds. The song appeared as a single in 1972 with \"\"You Took Me By Surprise\"\" on the flipside. It was the only release on Productions Unlimited, a label created by (or for) the Seeds at the tail end of their late '60s \/ early '70s run as Sky Saxon And The Seeds. Get shucked!MacBeth released their one and only 45 in 1978, with the steamrolling \"\"Freight Train\"\" as the b-side to \"\"Didn't Mean (To Come This Far).\"\" Boasting a thick-ass riff, a tasty stereo-panned guitar solo and at least one space laser sound effect, this one should satisfy fans of Blue Cheer and Grand Funk alike. MacBeth's bassist, Ned Meloni, went on to play with UFO guitarist Paul Chapman, Virgin Steele guitarist Jack Starr and do a brief stint with doom legends Pentagram.Formed by three brothers-David, Bruce and Barry Flynn, all GM factory workers-along with organist Tom Applegate, The Headstones (also known as simply Headstone) lent their 1974 garage boogie \"\"Carry Me On\"\" to The Fourth Trip. This time, the Midwest psych rockers return with their killer 1975 instrumental \"\"Snake Dance.\"\" One can hear echoes of this particular guitar style in the recent work of Swedish adventure rock overlords Hällas.The band Clinton might've been from Pennsylvania, but that didn't stop them from writing about New York City. \"\"Midnight In New York\"\" is the flipside to their sole single, 1976's \"\"Falling Behind.\"\" Stylistically and thematically, it's not unlike something famous New Yawker Ace Frehley would've written for KISS around the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597244629287,"sku":"603111758817","price":30.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/4212596-2980528.jpg?v=1783431876"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-tenth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Tenth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere it is, the tenth edition of Brown Acid in just half as many years! As always, Riding Easy has packed in the highest highs of the dankest hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks previously lost to the sands of time. Like throughout this series, all of these tracks were painstakingly licensed legitimately and the artists were paid. It's hard to believe it's up to ten volumes of this lysergic Neanderthal wail, but the long-lost jams just keep-a-coming like Texas crude to fuel the rock 'n' roll engine and melt one's metal mind.\"\"Will do for hard rock, proto-metal and heavy psych what Nuggets did for garage rock, and bring it to a wider audience of collectors and music fans.\"\" -The Guardian \"\"Mining the surprising rich reserves of heavy rock and proto-metal from the '60s and '70s, these collections have been crucial to understanding the history of a subgenre of rock that had far deeper roots than most fans realize.\"\" -Paste Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597245284647,"sku":"603111741413","price":29.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/3802045-2548286.jpg?v=1783431879"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-sixteenth-trip-cd","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Sixteenth Trip (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSixteen trips might fry the fragile psyche of the average teenager, but the hoary old heads at Brown Acid boiled their brain pans long ago! As such, Riding Easy is bringing even more hard rock, heavy psych, and garage rock rarities from the North American wasteland of the 1970s. From L.A. to Youngstown, OH, from Toronto to Charlotte, The Sixteenth Trip has got everything covered. As always, original copies of these 45s would cost a pretty penny-if one could find 'em in the first place. And by now one knows the drill: This ain't no bootleg. All songs are officially licensed.This sixteenth installment kicks off with \"\"Shuckin' and Jiving,\"\" a seven-minute power jam from L.A.'s kings of garage psych, the Seeds. The song appeared as a single in 1972 with \"\"You Took Me By Surprise\"\" on the flipside. It was the only release on Productions Unlimited, a label created by (or for) the Seeds at the tail end of their late '60s \/ early '70s run as Sky Saxon And The Seeds. Get shucked!MacBeth released their one and only 45 in 1978, with the steamrolling \"\"Freight Train\"\" as the b-side to \"\"Didn't Mean (To Come This Far).\"\" Boasting a thick-ass riff, a tasty stereo-panned guitar solo and at least one space laser sound effect, this one should satisfy fans of Blue Cheer and Grand Funk alike. MacBeth's bassist, Ned Meloni, went on to play with UFO guitarist Paul Chapman, Virgin Steele guitarist Jack Starr and do a brief stint with doom legends Pentagram.Formed by three brothers-David, Bruce and Barry Flynn, all GM factory workers-along with organist Tom Applegate, The Headstones (also known as simply Headstone) lent their 1974 garage boogie \"\"Carry Me On\"\" to The Fourth Trip. This time, the Midwest psych rockers return with their killer 1975 instrumental \"\"Snake Dance.\"\" One can hear echoes of this particular guitar style in the recent work of Swedish adventure rock overlords Hällas.The band Clinton might've been from Pennsylvania, but that didn't stop them from writing about New York City. \"\"Midnight In New York\"\" is the flipside to their sole single, 1976's \"\"Falling Behind.\"\" Stylistically and thematically, it's not unlike something famous New Yawker Ace Frehley would've written for KISS around the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597245448487,"sku":"603111758824","price":18.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/4212597-2980529.jpg?v=1783431881"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-fourteenth-trip-cd","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - Fourteenth Trip (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere's just a few of the gems on Brown Acid - The Fourteenth Trip, the much beloved series that is the Nuggets of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock: The Legends' \"\"Fever Games\"\" is a 1969 fever dream of heavy psych on par with Blue Cheer at their heaviest, featuring an incredible intro with whammy-bar gymnastics through an Echoplex. This Harrisburg, PA power trio, featuring Dan Hartman (Edgar Winter Group, et al) and his brother Dave, also name-checks Jimi Hendrix Experience in the midst of the song's most blatant Hendrix rip. Perhaps that's how Fever Games work? Transfer's velvet smooth groove has an almost proto-punk feel like a mashup of the Velvet Underground and The Flamin' Groovies. But the lyrics referencing tokin' reefer and the twanging surf lead situate them closer to their heavy rock brethren. This very rare 1974 self- released 45 is this lone archive of the band's existence-assume they just kept right on playin' it cool into oblivion. Cox's Army deploy the grungy rocker \"\"I'm Tired\"\" which sounds like if Jimi Hendrix fronted Mudhoney. Yes, please! Though they hailed from Aurora, IL, it sounds like there's definitely some Pacific Northwest in their blood. Particularly in the gritty production, which hints at The Sonics' \"\"bustin' outta lo-fi\"\" style. Not much is known about the enigmatic Columbus, OH musician known as Raven, whose \"\"Back to Ohio Blues\"\" closes this edition. The mantra-like droning riff of this eight-minute jam is a Black To Comm-style epic, driven by Raven's hostile, no-bullshit diatribe until it all busts open for an insane two-minute long drum solo soaked in odd effects that sounds like it was copped from a Melvins album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597245514023,"sku":"603111748627","price":18.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/4100068-2839598.jpg?v=1783431881"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-eleventh-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Eleventh Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. We're now in the double digits of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from the 60s-70s and clearly this has become a bonafide archaeological movement as each new edition leads us to more exciting new discoveries. Like we've done throughout this series, all of these tracks were painstakingly licensed legitimately and the artists were paid. Make yourself comfortable and prepare for yet another deep, deep dive into the treasure trove of dank, subterranean, wild-eyed and hairy rock 'n' roll.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597246791975,"sku":"603111741819","price":29.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/3861175-2607676.jpg?v=1783431899"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-eleventh-trip-cd","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Eleventh Trip (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e2020 collection. We're now in the double digits of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from the 60s-70s and clearly this has become a bonafide archaeological movement as each new edition leads us to more exciting new discoveries. Like we've done throughout this series, all of these tracks were painstakingly licensed legitimately and the artists were paid. Make yourself comfortable and prepare for yet another deep, deep dive into the treasure trove of dank, subterranean, wild-eyed and hairy rock 'n' roll.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597247283495,"sku":"603111741826","price":18.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/3861176-2605632.jpg?v=1783431906"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-ninth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Ninth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe forthcoming ninth edition of the popular compilation series featuring long-lost vintage '60s-'70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid - The Ninth Trip is set for release! Some of the best thrills of the Internet music revolution are the ability to find extremely rare music with great ease. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered for nearly half a century-particularly in genres that lacked hifalutin arty pretense. Previously, only the most extremely dedicated and passionate record collectors had the stamina and prowess to hunt down long forgotten wonders in dusty record bins-often hoarding them in private collections, or selling at ridiculous collector's prices. Legendary compilations like Nuggets, Pebbles, ad nauseum, have exhausted the mines of early garage rock and proto-punk, keeping alive a large cross-section of underground ephemera. However, few have delved into and expertly archived the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock tracks collected on Brown Acid.\"\"Will do for hard rock, proto-metal and heavy psych what Nuggets did for garage rock, and bring it to a wider audience of collectors and music fans.\"\" -The Guardian \"\"So rare that diehard fuzz junkies say you'd have a better chance of winning the lottery than finding a physical 45 RPM single by one of the bands featured on their latest installment.\"\" -Dangerous Minds\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597266092327,"sku":"603111735511","price":29.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/3726228-2493798.jpg?v=1783432020"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-twenty-first-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Twenty-first Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere we are again in 2025, Brown Acid The Twenty-First Trip arriving right on time as the world at large degrades further into disorienting self-absorbed isolation and chaos. Ten powerful early hard rock brain benders, primal energy exploding sideways out of the ash heap of '60s idealism, rocking the darker side of human nature in style! Raw and unfiltered, no compromise, blasting gnarly sound perfectly sequenced to take you on one helluva ride! Territory populated with dicey characters, perilous women, predators, bad relationships... anti-social alienation delivered with smoking guitars, real people ripping it with no self-defeating namby-pamby finesse sabotaging their brutal energy. Every track sounds fresh today because Brown Acid is the real deal when it comes to what matters in music... communication! Life itself sonically sneering across time! Opus Est - \"\"Maggie Johnsons\"\" kicks it right out of the gate, taking only a minute and a half to do you in with brash proto punk attitude. Tight and savage riffing shifts gears with an ascending backup vocal hook right out of the twilight zone. The singer sounds disoriented, he can't get away from Maggie quick enough! Power trio from Belgium in 1974 nail it to the wall and then the whole building collapses. Freedom North - \"\"Losing You\"\" seamlessly alternates gutsy female vocal ranting with trippy floating guitar passages. Singer Franki Hart sounded psychedelic dreamy on their debut 45 \"\"Doctor Tom\"\", here she sounds like her throat is gonna fly right into your face. Gnarly lead, harsh dry metallic guitar sound, score one for the ladies here, the dude's a loser and she dumps him. Canadian band from 1970 cranked out four singles and an LP that year... this is their killer. Accents - \"\"Friendly Stranger\"\" serves as an ominous warning for the girls. That seemingly charming guy you just met may be more Ted Bundy than Romeo... do not get in his car! Gushy organ, dark buried fuzz guitar, terrific post-psych catchy vocal arrangement. The band formed in Rhode Island in 1966 and cut this dark killer in 1969 in L.A. issued on the Gazzari label, associated with the legendary rock venue. Brother Love - \"\"Rock N Roll Band\"\" takes the popular theme of being on the road to a new prequel type zone, the guy is headed to New Orleans to start up a band. Great details about wieners and beans, limousines and Cajun Queens, terrific fuzz riff groove like a sideways blend of \"\"Satisfaction\"\" with \"\"Jumping Jack Flash\"\"... best move is the innovatively crude way the lead guitar works a Chuck Berry approach into new territory. Trio led by the Pettito brothers out of Cleveland circa 1970. Perfectly placed break from the darkness on the previous tracks. River Styx - \"\"Bike Writer\"\" out of Beverly, New Jersey in 1971 gets right back to woman trouble with lyrics as mysteriously inscrutable as the bizarre song title. Non-stop acidic fuzz guitar action all thru, weaving around but coming in for nasty little bites at just the right time. Vocalist rants with hallucinatory twisted Sky Saxon level intensity, searing distorted guitar burning it up on the extended fade-out. Maxx - \"\"200 Years\"\" was originally issued out of Lansing, Michigan on the local Signal label and picked up for national release as a promo-only by Mainstream Records. The theme is the original USA ideal of 'land of the free' becoming utterly doomed by greed and corruption. Menacing light-touch Stooges style rhythmic groove with watery wah-wah action on the intro into dirty bad trip sheets of psychedelic fuzz guitar, this dark beast functions as a bleak epitaph for civil society, as pertinent now as in 1969! Pump - \"\"Kinda Like\"\" is kinda like outrageous with it's combination of askew vocal swagger over a churning groove veering into a ridiculously cool chorus about a young girl hanging out with an old man because he makes her feel safe like an old umbrella. Wait until his hand comes into the picture and try not to crack up! Fab primitive guitar lead rides you out and any song with the phrase 'Nagasaki perfume' in it is speaking my language! Left-field 1970 winner out of Newark, Delaware on the Dwikey label. 29.9 -\"\"You Got Me Floating\"\" takes the Hendrix song deep into the garage. Way loose vocal, serendipitously crude guitar add to the vibe in a way no virtuoso could top. Led by the Harrison brothers John and Doug out of Pittsburgh but recorded in late 1969 at a band communal party house in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. John later scored films for George Romero, and used 29.9 track in his own horror classic \"\"Effects\"\". Wakefield - \"\"Here I Am\"\" is a mini-epic with rudimentary progressive rock moves Sioux Falls, South Dakota style from 1979. Opens with a slinky start and stop stalking groove, vocal has the singer up on the stage but feels like a cage, the crowd isn't really getting where he's coming from. Extended break goes into double time with flying guitar leads and shifts gears into to a dreamy vibe with synth mimicking airy mellotron skies saying \"\"you'll find an answer someday\"\". Fat chance, you're in Brown Acid Land! Peacepipe - \"\"Lazy River Blues\"\" completes Trip 21 in deep psychedelic blues territory with lurking danger in the sinister chord changes, eerie effect dosed vocals, mournful acid guitar leads... makes you feel like you're getting cornered by something scary you can't see. Obscure heavy trio led by John Uzonyi from L.A. circa 1969, originally issued on the custom Accent label. The creepy vibe sticks with you like a phantasmic nightmare!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597266223399,"sku":"737879948682","price":33.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/4463430-3461003.jpg?v=1783432098"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-ninth-trip-cd","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Ninth Trip (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe forthcoming ninth edition of the popular compilation series featuring long-lost vintage '60s-'70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid - The Ninth Trip is set for release! Some of the best thrills of the Internet music revolution are the ability to find extremely rare music with great ease. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered for nearly half a century-particularly in genres that lacked hifalutin arty pretense. Previously, only the most extremely dedicated and passionate record collectors had the stamina and prowess to hunt down long forgotten wonders in dusty record bins-often hoarding them in private collections, or selling at ridiculous collector's prices. Legendary compilations like Nuggets, Pebbles, ad nauseum, have exhausted the mines of early garage rock and proto-punk, keeping alive a large cross-section of underground ephemera. However, few have delved into and expertly archived the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock tracks collected on Brown Acid.\"\"Will do for hard rock, proto-metal and heavy psych what Nuggets did for garage rock, and bring it to a wider audience of collectors and music fans.\"\" -The Guardian \"\"So rare that diehard fuzz junkies say you'd have a better chance of winning the lottery than finding a physical 45 RPM single by one of the bands featured on their latest installment.\"\" -Dangerous Minds\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597266452775,"sku":"603111735528","price":18.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/3726229-2493799.jpg?v=1783432025"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-eighth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Eighth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe hard stuff saga continues with Brown Acid - The Eighth Trip! Yet again, Riding Easy has searched high and low to bring ten tracks of straight blue flame fire from the golden age of heaviness. As usual, these rare tracks have been carefully curated, analogically sourced, and fully licensed so one can listen guilt-free and save a lot of time and money tracking down the original copies.This Trip comes straight at ya with an all out attack, quite literally-Attack's \"\"School Daze\"\" kicks out the jams Detroit-style. White Rock will knock your stank-ass socks off with their 1972 burner \"\"Please Don't Run Away\"\". This 45 was privately released by this Houston-based band that reportedly played shows with Josefus, Stone Axe, and Purple Sun. Riverside's two-sider from 1974 rips from front to back. It's also exclusively available here and is virtually unknown. And that's just some of the stellar collection of rare singles featured here.Some of the best thrills of the Internet music revolution is the ability to find extremely rare music with great ease. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered for nearly half a century-particularly in certain genres. Previously, only the most extremely dedicated and passionate record collectors had the stamina and prowess to hunt down long forgotten wonders in dusty record bins-often hoarding them in private collections, or selling at ridiculous collector's prices. Legendary compilations like Nuggets, Pebbles, ad nauseum, have exhausted the mines of early garage rock and proto-punk, keeping alive a large cross-section of underground ephemera. However, few have delved into and expertly archived the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock tracks collected on Brown Acid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597276741927,"sku":"603111734910","price":30.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/cover_e7131e68-7e62-48b7-8150-e04c46841e7f.jpg?v=1787179285"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-fifth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Fifth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. 2017 collection. The hits just keep coming-for this fifth lysergic journey, Riding Easy assembles ten heavy slabs of obscure rock the likes of which have never been seen before... not in this form, anyhow. And as usual, the tracks from these impossibly rare records have all been fully cleared through the artists themselves. Great lengths were gone to in order to get the best possible master sources, the worst case scenario being an original 45. The legendary Captain Foam kicks off this trip like an anvil to your skull with a rollicking stomper sounding like The Who with Matt Pike's thunderous guitar tone. \"\"No Reason\"\" wasn't easy to find, but lo and behold, the super sleuths located him and got his blessing to include the A-side of his sole single. Good luck finding an original copy of the record. It's rarer than raw beef-and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The other nine tracks continue the onslaught in typical Brown Acid form: George Brigman's charmingly disjointed bedroom-fi production of \"\"Blowin' Smoke,\"\" Finch's way out of time and place grungeadelic anthem \"\"Nothing In The Sun,\"\" Cybernaut's heavy prog, Fargo's hallucinogenic BBQ-sauce soaked \"\"Abaddon,\"\" Mammoth's fittingly beefy eponymous riff-monger, Flasher's \"\"Icky Bicky\"\" boogie, Ohio-based screamers Lance, Zebra's gritty rendition of \"\"Helter Skelter\"\" and finally, the mysterious and previously unheard Thor appears here exclusively and for the first time ever with their unknown 45 track \"\"Lick It.\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597434716455,"sku":"603111720210","price":28.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/cover_3348e59d-c030-4903-98d9-3d6e8713523b.jpg?v=1787181042"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-sixth-trip-cd","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Sixth Trip (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e2018 collection, the sixth installment in this popular series. Six volumes worth of licensed tracks released in just three years: doing the Dark Lord's work isn't an easy job, but somebody's gotta do it, so here is Brown Acid - The Sixth Trip, with more lined up. The heads just can't get enough obscure hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal from the late'60s and '70s! This time around Riding Easy present ten deep cuts from across the continental USA and one from the neighbors up North. This trip kicks off with an outrageous number from Gold out of San Francisco circa 1970. The band used to open their sets with this over-the-top frantic jammer which is absolutely mind-blowing! Delving deeper into the depths, Canadians continue to prove that they could bang heads with the best of 'em! Heat Exchange from Toronto released the rollicking ripper \"\"Inferno\"\" on the Yorkville label way back in 1968 and it's still thumping almost fifty years later. Some more examples of the mind-melting tracks on this platter: Missouri isn't a state that brought us a lot of heavy 45s, but there are a handful of outstanding tracks, one of which is the funk-laced anthem \"\"Give Me Time\"\" by Backwood Memory from Kansas City. Youngstown, Ohio, meanwhile, might have been the Hard Rock Mecca back in the day. Travis is yet another Youngstown group that aimed to get asses out of seats and out in the streets. Truth \u0026amp; Janey had their incredible proto-metal masterpiece 1976 album No Rest For The Wicked; released four years earlier, \"\"Midnight Horseman\"\" was a 45-only track, included here! Those are just some of the fruits of months worth of record digging and detective work included on this latest installment. This is the stuff that makes life worth living, at least until the next Trip\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51597831668007,"sku":"603111729626","price":18.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/0640\/5927\/files\/cover_e8de9d52-f2ab-46f7-90bb-925a29e60dbe.jpg?v=1787185080"},{"product_id":"various-artists-brown-acid-the-sixth-trip-vinyl","title":"Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Sixth Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. 2018 collection, the sixth installment in this popular series. Six volumes worth of licensed tracks released in just three years: doing the Dark Lord's work isn't an easy job, but somebody's gotta do it, so here is Brown Acid - The Sixth Trip, with more lined up. The heads just can't get enough obscure hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal from the late'60s and '70s! This time around Riding Easy present ten deep cuts from across the continental USA and one from the neighbors up North. This trip kicks off with an outrageous number from Gold out of San Francisco circa 1970. The band used to open their sets with this over-the-top frantic jammer which is absolutely mind-blowing! Delving deeper into the depths, Canadians continue to prove that they could bang heads with the best of 'em! Heat Exchange from Toronto released the rollicking ripper \"\"Inferno\"\" on the Yorkville label way back in 1968 and it's still thumping almost fifty years later. Some more examples of the mind-melting tracks on this platter: Missouri isn't a state that brought us a lot of heavy 45s, but there are a handful of outstanding tracks, one of which is the funk-laced anthem \"\"Give Me Time\"\" by Backwood Memory from Kansas City. Youngstown, Ohio, meanwhile, might have been the Hard Rock Mecca back in the day. 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These killer tracks may be a half century in the rear-view mirror now but... since We Can't Work It Out... we gotta mess it up! A vibe that resonates timelessly, real life ripped out of the haze by real people, fresh and unfiltered right out of the gate. Getting it while they can. These are no mere historic sound recordings, they are life itself! 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Like they've done throughout this series, all of these tracks were painstakingly licensed legitimately and the artists were paid. Make oneself comfortable and prepare for yet another deep, deep dive into the treasure trove of dank, subterranean, wild-eyed and hairy rock 'n' roll of yesteryear. Some key examples include: As usual, this Trip opens strong, as \"\"Take The Time\"\" swaggers along with switchblade stabs of guitar twang and frantic drumming that sounds like Nick Cave's '80s post-punk barbarians The Birthday Party on this 1969 single from the mysterious Boston area band The Looking Glass. Negative Space toil in the dark web of The Seeds, and dwell in the mystic haze of working class suburbs in Camden, NJ circa 1970. Their angry, nasty guitar sounds and frustration-bogged frontman Rob Russen ensure that the aggro fueled \"\"Forbidden Fruit\"\"-in which he confesses his love for his sister-in-law-will hit one right in the face. 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