Fire Breathing Dragon is a top as fuck grunge number with a massive Geordie like riff teaming up with Pantera for a nu metal party. It’s a seven and a half minute banger that rocks with the rolls and punches high on the solo meter. After two minutes it goes all weird psych again with some gloomy synth from Ewan Fitzgerald before a slow doom riff from Bonj (not Jovi) slowly rises with some clever drums from Sam Davies who sounds like he knows his way around his kit. Malt sounds like someones stubbed a cig out on his arse at this point and is cursing the burn. It sounds great. It’s a tune that dabbles with everything and a sound of four mad bastards having a laugh. The guitar attack in the outro is brutal as fuck. –Wayne Cary

“Colombo No. 5” is one of the shortest tracks on the LP, another ass-shaker, probably the most straightforward garage rock track: tight, bass and riff-heavy, no zoning out on this one. The closer “Frostbite” is alt-rap with a charming UK accent, as if to drive home the point that Wytch Pycknyck is allergic to being classified (and to using vowels).

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Cadets is Spirit Mother’s first LP and it doesn’t look like any of the band members have been in other groups, at least after an non-exhaustive glance on Discogs. They released a live record in 2021 that has several of the songs from Cadet called Live in the Mojave Desert Volume 3. That record is part of series on Giant Rock Records, all recorded live and filmed in the natural amphitheater of California’s Mojave Desert and backed by a visual performance from the Mad Alchemy Liquid Light Show. Other bands appearing on the series include Earthless, Nebula, Mountain Tamer and Stöner.

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Our copy has the title Master of Reality embossed in black making it utterly useless in photographs. “In his autobiography Iommi describes the cover as “Slightly Spinal Tap-ish, only well before Spinal Tap.” (Wiki) Later represses have the title in un-embossed gray, not nearly as cool but a helluva lot easier to read.

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard “Teenage Gizzard” 2020. Romanus Records, limited edition “splatter” variant. Recorded in 2010 and 2011, before their first  LP release, Teenage Gizzard is an “official bootleg” that compiles some of their early singles and an EP (Anglesea, 2011). The band released the digitial masters to anyone who wanted to press the album…and a TON of labels did, including my favorite Romanus. It’s lo-fi psychedelic stoner garage rock, a lot less polished than their current releases, but really excellent. Top tracks: the surfy, kinda psychobilly “Ants and Bats” (the b-side to the 2010 single “Hey There”), the garagey, pop and lo-fi catchy “Summer” (b-side to another 2010 single “Sleep”), the Link Wray-ish freakout “Fried” (from Anglesea), and the 60′s-style garage rock boppers “Good to Me” (also from Anglesea) and “Life is Cool.” And then the last track is Romanus Records own Chris Banta giving a shout-out thanks to King Gizzard and to all of us who are Romanus Records patrons 🥰

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Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard released Polygondwanaland (their fourth of five releases in 2017!!) by uploading the master tapes to the web for anyone to use with the note “Polygondwanaland is FREE. Free as in, free. Free to download and if you wish, free to make copies. Make tapes, make CD’s, make records … Ever wanted to start your own record label? GO for it! Employ your mates, press wax, pack boxes. We do not own this record. You do. Go forth, share, enjoy.” A ton of labels did just that; I have another variant, in picture disc form, from Shed House Records. That one is pretty, but this liquid filled from Romanus Records is ridiculously cool and also very special: Chris Banta (owner of Romanus) embarked on this ambitious pressing in order to raise funds for his young son’s surgery (it was a success, his kid is beautiful and doing just fine).

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With a name like Sleep and songs like the epic “Dopesmoker” (which is so long it had to be split between two records) and “Marijuanaut’s Theme,” the band and its music completely earns the label stoner rock. It’s the middle of the afternoon on a weekday and I’m already feeling a little fuzzy-headed and thinking about taking a nap after listening to the first few sides. It’s a good thing I didn’t go see them when they were in town last year, I definitely would have literally slept through the entire concert (a talent I’m not exactly proud of but have employed often, most recently at King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard, the Black Angels and Ministry). I’m finding it mostly monotonous – not bad, really, but I think you need to be actually high to get into the hazed-out groove. I can’t even pick a top track because I’ve just totally zoned out during each. But the packaging, as always for Third Man, is excellent and the vinyl top quality.

Side A: “Leagues Beneath”  Side B: “Dopesmoker” (Part One)

Side C: “Dopesmoker (Part Two) and “Holy Mountain”  Side D: “The Clarity” and “Aquarian”

Side E: “Sonic Titan”  Side F: “Marijuanaut’s Theme” and “Giza Butler”

Side G: “The Botanist” and “Dragonaut”

Side H is blank (pictured in the top photo of this post)

The poster included in the package is a blown-up reprint of the flyer for the performance at Third Man.

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The concert was at the historic Breese Stevens Field, located just a few blocks from the State Capitol building. We met up with a couple of friends who found a good spot on the bleachers to the side of the stage. The guys headed down to the grass to be near the stage once Queens of the Stone Age started playing; I chose to stay bleacher-beached because the dude-brah level at a QOTSA show is way too high for my palate.

To the story! Homme mentioned that he recently turned 45 (so he’s just about 2 years younger than me) and when he was about 18 he lived in Madison and recalled playing shows here with Ween (whether he opened for them or sat in during their performance wasn’t obvious – Homme was clearly, and self-admittedly, wasted last night so not all of his crowd banter was coherent). He then said he bartended at O’Cayz Corral (a bar that I saw many shows at, when I lived in Madison between ‘89-’93 and then later through the 90′s before it burned down in 2001, shows including Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Murder City Devils, Nashville Pussy, and many many more; it’s entirely possible that at one point Josh Homme served me a drink) and “I slept with at least 5 of you. At the same time. This next song is about that,” and launched into “No One Knows.” “No One Knows” was the first single released from Songs for the Deaf which became a huge hit, making it to #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #5 on the Mainstream Rock chart and #1 on the Alternative Songs chart. It was nominated for a Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy (losing, kinda ironically, to Foo Fighters’ “All My Life” – Dave Grohl drummed for QOTSA on Songs for the Deaf) and Rolling Stone placed it at #97 in their list of Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. That’s a lot of acclaim given to an experience at a 150-capacity shitty (but awesome!) club in Madison, Wisconsin.

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