Angels Die Hard / 1971 Biker OST Promo Fever Tree Dewey Martin w/ Harley Cover

$

53

ARTIST: Various Artists
LABEL: Uni 73091 (1971)
TITLE: Angels Die Hard
CONDITION:
Sleeve: Mint- w/ a whisper of wear. Has a tiny sample copy sticker on the back cover.
Record: Looks Mint- w/ some light surface scuffs. Side A plays Mint- and Side B plays almost Mint- w/ some light random background surface noise. / VPI cleaned
COMMENTS: Very nice original promo copy of this obscure and hard to find 1971 low budget Biker soundtrack w/ great Harley Davidson cover. Features a cool otherwise unreleased Psych track by Fever Tree. For sure, one of the hardest to find of the old biker albums. Besides a cool ex-Buffalo Springfield rocker, this one offers up The East-West Pipeline who hammer out some gritty tough jams....
Tracks :
1.Indian Child (Dewey Martin And Medicine Ball)
2.Changes (East-West Pipeline)
3.Kern County Line (East-West Pipeline)
4.You Could Be (East-West Pipeline)
5.Nancy's Theme (East-West Pipeline)
6.Man Who Kills Ants (East-West Pipeline)
7.Questions (East-West Pipeline)
8.Death Is The Dancer (Fever Tree)
9.I Want To Take You Higher (Sylvanus)
10.Something's Wrong (East-West Pipeline)
11.Night Of The Lions (Mark Eric)
12.Taking A Bath (East-West Pipeline)
13.Angels Die Hard (East-West Pipeline)
14.Tendency To Be Free (Rabbit MacKay)
The film that spawned this soundtrack LP was a late 60's biker flick released in 1970 featuring granite-chinned genre regular William Smith, and former Warhol subject Tom Baker. There are several fine fuzz guitar workouts among the six bands here. Dewey Martin and Medicine Ball kick off the proceedings with the anthemic "Indian Child," a rousing number that doesn't bear heavy scrutiny. Martin had been the drummer for Buffalo Springfield, but his solo career didn't achieve the same heights. His contribution here proves he had a blustery, commanding rock voice, and the song's frequent refrain chants "Get hi-i-igh!"evoking the Native American culture all too common to young, white hippies of the day. Backup band Medicine Ball holds their own, churning along with some buzzing, energetic fretwork that nicely compliments Martin's histrionics. The remainder of the acts on Angels Die Hard were current up-and-comers whose names are only remembered now by the fiercest of record collectors. Texas psychedelic act Fever Tree offers up their atmospheric yet overwrought "Death Is the Dancer," and chamber-pop/surfer kid Mark Eric contributes "Night of the Lions." Songwriter Rabbit MacKay has a tough, fist-clenching chorus on "Tendency to Be Free," and Sylvanus cuts a note-perfect copy of Sly Stone's "I Want to Take You Higher." However, the bulk of the score was laid down by East-West Pipeline, an obscure garage band from Colorado that performed similar duties a year later for another biker flick called Bury Me an Angel, but is otherwise undocumented on vinyl. Their nine tracks vary in both tone and quality, highlights include the heavy sludge riffing of "You Could Be" and "Taking a Bath," and the sweet, yearning psychedelia of "Questions." The Pipeline could turn on the righteous heaviness when they felt like it, and some of their more tuneful material works, too, but they're obviously hampered by the needs of the film's producers, as evidenced by the backing arrangements that damage an otherwise fluid guitar-duel jam on the title track. As a time capsule of forgotten Altamont-era rock, this (very) hard to find soundtrack album works fine
NOTE: VPI cleaned means that this record was cleaned on a professional $500 cleaning machine, which does wonders for the playback of all vinyl records!
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