TRD nightly nugget.......

[Top Row Dawg]

The Helpful Soul - Crossroads - 1969

Japanese band.

The career of the Helpful Soul was a real case of wrong place, wrong time - for they hit their blues stride just as heavy blues was becoming hard rock, and graduated to heavy rock too late to capitalise on even that brief fad. However, they recorded one outstanding track, the ten-minutes-plus of "Peace For Fools", which appeared on their otherwise bog-standard blues dirge debut LP. This track in itself separates them from all Japanese blues bands for it is a Kim Fowleyan masterpiece of Jim Morrison mystical doggerel/truly possessed nihilist genius. Unfortunately, leader Junio Nakahara was so inspired by witnessing a performance by Blues Creation, when his band supported them at the Too Much Festival, that he was soon after driven to change his own name to Tstomu Ogawa while his band became known as ... Too Much.


Our nugget for the night is Crossroads, check out the guitar solo 1:30 mark.


Here are other selections from one and only album.



Peace For Fools


Spoonful


Blues For My Baby

This post was edited on 3/25 10:59 PM by Top Row Dawg

Crossroads

 

[JohnnyBeeDawg]

Nice! Since you are now posting Julian Cope stuff, I might as well

...Lay this on you.

His epic poem that he recites, while Sunn O))) strums of doom behind him.
Lot of heavy shit in this poem. Layers in every word. Not a light bedtime snack.
Very ancient and very modern.
I suggest headphones. At night.

Have you ever seen his anthropology TV series he did on "ancient places" for BBC??
Wild. Dude is a wordsmith.

This post was edited on 3/25 11:37 PM by JohnnyBeeDawg

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