ASTOUNDING HARD GUITAR PSYCH 1970 IT'S ALL MEAT Rare 2nd GARAGE DOORS STONES

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        SCARCE 2nd press 25+ years of age
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This issue was the first "second printing" probably from Germany released in small quantity around the end of the '80s or dawning of 1990... Needless to say it's a scarce pressing that popped up and one we haven't seen for some time.

Important LP on the psychedelic hard rock collectors scene::: and,
One of the true monster Canadian psych rarities, the IT'S ALL MEAT album is one of the few that live up to the hype. It's mildly garage flavored hard rock, featuring great guitar, killer self composed tracks with amazing hooks that grow with repeat plays... the lengthy DOORS inspired "Crying Into The Deep Lake" is one for the psychedelic ages, complete with captivating atmospherics topped by a hypnotizing appeal with swirl organ...

It’s All Meat were a late 60s/early 70s band that hailed from Toronto and released an excellent hard rock album in 1970.  Prior to that, It’s All Meat had been known as The Underworld.  The Underworld released a superb, crude garage single (“Go Away”/”Bound” – the label is Regency) in 1968 and also recorded some fine unreleased material captured on acetate.  As mentioned before, some of the members of The Underworld would form It’s All Meat.  In 1969 this new group would release their debut 45, “Feel It” coupled with “I Need Some Kind of Definitive Commitment.”  The A-side combined MC5 energy with New York Dolls-style swagger and features plenty of feedback and great guitar breaks.  It’s one of the great '60s garage-punkers of the era.

Their "IT's ALL MEAT" album was released the following year in 1970 and featured 8 fresh original numbers written by drummer Rick McKIM and keyboard player/lead vocalist Jed MacKAY.  All the tracks have redeeming features; solid stonesy garage rockers that form the axis of this lp: “Make Some Use Of Your Friends,” “Roll My Own,” “You Brought Me Back To My Senses,” and “You Don’t Know The Time You Waste.”  The latter track would be released as the group’s second and final single but “Roll My Own” and “Make Some Use Of Your Friends” were just as good, featuring fine psychedelic guitar work and raw vocals.  Other note worthy tracks flirted with blues (“Self-Confessed Lover”) and folk-rock (“If Only”) but the lp’s brightest moments were its two 9-minute marathon compositions.  “Crying Into A Deep Lake” was full-blown Doors psychedelia with spacey keyboards and spooky Jim Morrison influenced vocals.  The other lengthy track, “Sunday Love,” sounds like a strange melancholy infectious high level groover with lots a great psychedelic guitar noise and soft folk-like passages sprinkled with light garage keyboards.   So while these last two tracks are very long, they never wear out their welcome and are required listening for both garage and psych fans.  The album’s production teeters between a primitive recording sound and the typical major label production, making it just right.

It’s All Meat is a fine, consistent trip all the way thru.  It’s one of the best late period (really late) garage rock albums we know of.  The album’s hard rock and psych sounds give it a nice, visceral edge.