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While the neo-
edition of
under the leadership of
made the most records and gained the most fans, the group produced its wildest and most seriously rockin' music during its earlier incarnation with
on lead vocals. Through the studio albums
and
certainly back up this argument, the most powerful document of the sheer flamethrower strength of the original
first emerged stateside on an obscure album called
. Taken from a cassette recording of a radio broadcast by the
-era group not long after completing
and shortly before the singer quit the band,
is an amazing merger of low fidelity and high energy. The sound quality is fair at best and frequently sinks down to lousy, but
are on fire from the first note of
to the final blast of
with
letting loose with all manner of furious guitar,
pounding out the big beat with no sense of shyness, and
belting out the tunes like his vocal chords were made of steel and he and his bandmates were tapped into a 220-volt power source. The occasion of this show was the final week of San Francisco's hippie-era
palace
, and while you have to wonder what the folks who came out to see headliners
made of
' opening slot (the
DJ who occasionally interrupts the proceedings sounds both stoned and quite puzzled), for sheer energy this ranks with the finest
to ever emerge from the Bay Area.
also offers the only recorded opportunity to hear
belt out the classic
as he left the band before it could be committed to tape in the studio, and his no-quarter performance makes one sigh at what could have been. A less-crummy sounding tape of the same broadcast was later released by
as
(
co-founder
wrote the understandably enthusiastic liner notes for both releases), but
got there first, and it remains a sentimental favorite and a cherished relic of the vinyl era. Play it loud -- really loud. ~ Mark Deming