SIR LORD BALTIMORE Kingdom Come / 1969 psyche LP
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SIR LORD BALTIMORE
Kingdom Come
In 1969, three longhairs from Brooklyn, New York, were thrown off the stage of Bill Graham's Fillmore East, for being what that now legendary promoter described as 'Pus'. The trio was Sir Lord Baltimore and they'd just recorded a flawed but fantastic first album, called 'Kingdom Come,' which combined thee most histrionic proto-Kiss, proto-David Lee Roth vocal acrobatics ever with enough Stooged-out proto-metal to last any sane band a lifetime.
What does it sound like? Well, I'll tell y'all. The music gets 10 out of 10, but the vocals get 100 out of 10. From the opening notes of 'Master Heartache', it's clear that Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons AND Patti Smith were at every Long Island gig they ever played. From the mouth of John Garner, such simple lyrics as 'I know' become more spiritually uplifting than Handel's Messiah
On 'Hard Rain Fallin'', the fuzzball riffing is marvy, Harvey, but again obliterated by John Garner's impossibly strident and braying delivery. By the time we get to 'Lady of Fire', it's revealed to us that Van Halen was formed specifically because of this song. No doubts. When you first hear Garner scream 'Fire', you feel like every 999 call in the world is coming to your aid, and your aid alone. It's more than magnificent - it's truly life affirming.
Whilst Richie Blackmore nicked the middle of ‘Lady of Fire’ for Purple’s ‘Woman from Tokyo’, Ian Gillan even copped the laugh in the last verse for the end of 'Speed King'. Yup, it's just so brimming over with proto-everything.
I could write 20,000 words about this one album (and probably will one day), but for now you must know (or rather 'Knowwwwurghhhh!') that there was a time around 1969/1970 when Sir Lord Baltimore managed to fuse the Stooges' primeval 'TV Eye' free-rock with Van Halen's version of 'You Really Got Me' and Blue Cheer's 'Come & Get It' without missing a beat. Besides, who had titles like 'Helium Head' in 1970? Sir Lord Baltimore did. And while you're trying to figure out the morass of amphetamine soup they called 'Pumped Up', they pull the musical rug from under you and leave Louis Dambra's bucking bronco guitar rearing alone and uncontrolled. No drum and bass. Nothing. [Julian Cope]
LISTEN TO PART OF IT HERE!
This is an original US pressing in the gatefold jacket. It is, as Julian says, a glorious racket.
TRACK LISTING:
- Hard Rain Fallin'
- Lady Of Fire
- Lake Isle Of Innersfree
- Pumped Up
- Kingdom Come
- I Got A Woman
- Hell Hound
- Helium Head (I Got A Love)
- Ain't Got Hung On You
CONDITION: RECORD is VG++ / JACKET is VG++ Small hole punch thru upper right corner.
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