Track List
Side A
The Looking Glass Take The Time
The Zoo 444
Black Hawk Little Suzie Looker
Truth And Janey Under My Thumb
Negative Space Forbidden Fruit
Side B
Scrapiron Roxanne
White Lightning Under Screaming Double Eagle

Crazy Louie What The People Say
Strongbow Change
Robert Starks Space Traveling (Part 2)

Brown Acid: The Fifteenth Trip
Lo and behold, the Fifteenth Trip is upon us, and its another mind-melting dose of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from the 60s-70s. Our crate-digging mining expeditions, and growing network of the original artists keeps on giving with more and more incredible discoveries every time we go back for more. Like weve 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 of yesteryear: 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 Caves 80s post-punk barbarians The Birthday Party on this 1969 single from the mysterious Boston area band The Looking Glass (not to be confused with the 70s soft-rock one-hit-wonders of Brandy [Youre a Fine Girl] fame.) But, as one might expect of a band this ahead of their time, the Looking Glass were soon to disappear down the rabbit hole.

The Zoos 444 is a 1969 single out of Michigan thats exactly the brand of rolling, grooving MC5/Stooges/Bob Seger System made famous in the Motor City. And this anthem slams as hard as the best of those well worn classics, which begs the question whither The Zoos day in the limelight? We can only imagine that these animals were too wild to tame in the studio.

Black Hawk was a trio out of Long Beach, CA who frequently played the SoCal club scene. Their lone 1971 single Little Suzie Looker features stomping pop hooks driven by some mean soundin Leslie West style guitar riffing. Originally named SMG for the members initials Sam/McCoy/Giles, the new name assigned by their management failed to take wing, and this Black Hawk was down permanently.

Truth & Janey might be familiar to you from their 45-only Midnight Horseman single heard way back on the Sixth Trip, and/or their incredible 1976 LP No Rest For The Wicked. But their super-driven soul leaning cover of Under My Thumb gives the track more of a lean in to the descending riff than the original, which adds to its power. Its almost like The Who had penned the track, with relentless drums, jackhammer rhythm guitar and near-falsetto vocals.

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 you right in the face. Russen self-financed and hand-stamped the otherwise plain white sleeves of their sole LP, proving that DIY aggression predates punk rock by several years.

Scrapiron, out of Carteret, NJ provided history with only this 1971 lone single, Roxanne backed with Poopsie. The quartets over-the-top wailing vocals and warbling sounding guitars and organ give the sexually-charged paean a hint of (Crazy World of) Arthur Browns mania, mixed with early Deep Purples free-flowing style.

White Lightning returns to the series here, last heard on The Twelfth Trip, and their blazing theatrical drumming, sizzling melodic riffs and Jim Dandy howls of Under Screaming Double Eagle perfectly sums up the raison dtre of this series. The Minneapolis band formed by guitarist Tom Zippy Caplan after he left garage psych heroes The Litter, later shortened its name to Lightning. The group only issued one proper album before disbanding in 1971. However, with the late 1990s reissues and revival of The Litter, Lightnings bevy of unreleased recordings also surfaced as a self-titled LP and Strikes Twice 1986-1969 CD compilation.

Crazy Louie remains to this day a celebrated novelty rock act in their Rapid City, South Dakota home, reuniting from time to time to ensure that the insanity defense remains intact in the bands psych ward files. My Pants is a chugging bit of tongue-in-cheek bravado that would do Bonn Scott proud. The release date of this B-side to What The People Say is unknown, but predates their Intro Into Craziness album from 1982.