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Tell me the story of lonely
And I'll show you the pain of getting clean
Mike Ford - "Table top" phaser
“ElectroHarmonix small stone with the univibe mods and an optical strobe light to control the rate ... not realy 'true bypass',lol! But a phaser with bells n whistles galore. An omage to David Lynches Dune movie,I reckon!”
cred: facebook.com/Mike Ford
Beautiful sunset stone painting .
The Glasspack: Powderkeg (2002)
By 2002, I’d been writing All-Music Guide bios and reviews for a few years and had pretty much figured out how this rock critic racket worked ...
All you had to do was contact record labels you liked, ask for music you wanted to listen to as a fan, and free CD promos would soon start landing in your snail-mailbox, on their way to earning a spot -- if they didn’t suck -- in your already bulging CD racks.
That was certainly my nefarious end-goal when I approached Detroit-based stoner rock specialists Small Stone, but I got a lot more than top-notch, ear-bleeding rock ‘n’ roll; I got a cherished friend in label owner and fellow retro music nut Scott Hamilton.
I also held up my side of the bargain and loaded up the All-Music Guide with a bunch of rave (but well-deserved) Small Stone reviews, including this one ...
As the Glasspack's Powderkeg checks in, the band is already heard in full flight, crushing through a wild cacophony that would suggest the ending rave-up for the previous year’s, Man’s Ruin-released debut, American Exhaust.
Formed in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1999, and featuring singer/guitarist ‘Dirty’ Dave Johnson, lead guitarist Andrew ‘Lil’ Bucky’ Garret, organist Brian ‘Reverend’ Foor, bassist David Wright and drummer Brett ‘The Cap’n’ Holsclaw, theirs was a spirited, high-octane brand of stoner rock, piled high with glorious distortion and an almost hardcore-like frenzy.
Led by Johnson, howling at the moon at all times, out-of-control barnstormers like the sardonic “Mrs. Satan,” “Whiskey House” and “The Heebeegeebees” emphasized the band’s healthy sense of humor, and what they lacked in civilized finesse, they more than made up for in raw exuberance.
And, as you lay there dazed, trying to memorize the license plate of the monster truck that hit you, the aptly named “Demolition Derby” locked into an immense, unstoppable doom metal riff that stomped you into the dirt to the sounds of breaking glass and ripping metal.
All that was left after that was for the self-explanatory feedback serenade “Jim Beam and Good Green” to lull the listener into a pleasant bedtime buzz -- a welcome, if unusual, finale for a motherfucker of an album that exploded with all of the loose, brute swagger promised by its title.
p.s. -- Yes, that’s band leader ‘Dirty’ Dave Johnson’s John Hancock on the album’s front cover.
p.p.s. -- Also note that this 2008 pressing from Sleeping Village Records lists a MySpace URL on the rear sleeve -- a sign of the times -- and that The Glasspack’s account was called “Kentucky Motherfuckers,” YEE-HAW!
More Stoner Rock: Acrimony’s Tumuli Shroomaroom, The Atomic Bitchwax’s The Atomic Bitchwax, Belzebong’s Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves, Bigelf’s Cheat the Gallows, Black Rainbows’ Hawkdope, Blue Heron's Ephemeral, Bongripper’s Satan Worshipping Doom, Bongzilla’s Stash, Cavity’s Supercollider, Ché’s Sounds of Liberation, Clutch’s Earth Rocker, Dead Meadow’s Dead Meadow, Dozer's Drifting in the Endless Void, Earthride’s Earthride EP, Eternal Elysium’s Spiritualized D, Fu Manchu’s No One Rides for Free, Goatsnake's Goatsnake Vol. 1, Hashtronaut's No Return, The Heads' Mao Tinitus EP, The Hidden Hand’s Mother Teacher Destroyer, House of Broken Promises’ Using the Useless, Kyuss’ Blues for the Red Sun, Lowrider’s Ode to Io, Monster Magnet’s Spine of God, The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight’s The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight, Los Natas’ Ciudad de Braham, Nebula’s Let it Burn, Novadriver’s Void, The Obsessed’s Lunar Womb, Orange Goblin’s Frequencies from Planet Ten, Sasquatch’s II, Sigiriya’s Return to Earth, Sleep’s Holy Mountain, Slo Burn’s Amusing the Amazing, Solarized’s Driven, Sons of Otis’ SpaceJumboFudge, Spirit Caravan’s Dreamwheel EP, Spiritu’s Spiritu, Terra Firma’s “Spiral Guru,” Thulsa Doom’s The Seats are Soft but the Helmet’s Way too Tight, Toner Low’s Toner Low, UFOmammut’s Snailking, Unida’s Coping with the Urban Coyote, The Wandering Midget’s From the Meadows of Opium Dreams, Witch’s Witch, Wo Fat’s The Black Code.
Five Horse Johnson - Fat Black Pussycat
Small Stone Recordings - SS-013LP
2017
This gem wasn't released on vinyl until 2017, but originally was released on CD in 1999. Pressed on beautiful blue vinyl by Cargo Records in Germany it is limited to only 500 copies. I believe only 100 were sent to Small Stone here in the US.
The stone
One day a good friend who really meant a lot to me gave me a black small stone and said
' This stone will leave all bad far away from you'
One year later:
We aren't friends, don't talk anymore and I lost a lot of people,'friends' which I thought were my friends and cared about me.
Isn't it ironic?
That person who gave me the stone was the worst person I was surrounded with.
Sometimes your enemy is closer than you think and right next to you.
So be selective with who you trust.
