VICTOR BRADY Brown Rain 1970 ORIG FUZZ FUNK PSYCH HEAR

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

VICTOR BRADY "Brown Rain"

Original 1970 white label pr0m0 LP on the POLYDOR label, STEREO 24/4086

Cover:  VG+, light ringwear, slight corner fraying

Vinyl:  Plays VG+ with some light swishing in parts

Currently selling for $180 online elsewhere

Weird.  Good weird, though, not bad weird.  Victor Brady, long before he became a regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and host of his own daytime talk show, apparently hooked up with Blue Cheer on a drunken Saturday in late 1970 and recorded this completely f***ed up hybrid of two musical genres that have no right being within earshot of each other.  Heavy psychedelic rock and steel drums.  Huh?  That’s right, ol’ Vic decided it would be cool to take a blistering, heavy, fuzz-infested progressive psych band and sprinkle his feverish Santana-esque steelpan solos all over their jams.  The result sounds like a Caribbean Black Sabbath, or Eric Burdon if War had grown up in Trinidad.  Or I guess you could just call it weird.

Actually, the music on Brown Rain is quite often based in a very traditional psychedelic rock format.  “Hallucinodream” sounds almost exactly like the Doors’ “Love Street,” with steelpan.  “Once Upon A Candle” blatantly steals a guitar riff from the Stones’ “Satisfaction,” and adds steelpan.  “It’s A Good World Outside” sounds like any number of late 60’s Animals songs.  With steelpan.  And once it gets going, it sounds a lot like the Police’s “Demolition Man.”  Erm, with steelpan.  Y’know, come to think of it, how come Sting never thought to add steelpan?  Didn’t he fancy himself a “world” musician?  Shame on him.

The highlight of Brown Rain, of course, is the 11-minute-plus title track, a big Diplodocus stomp of ripping fuzz guitar, deep Funkadelic funk and Victor’s obviously stoned, deeply disturbed vocal grunts and moans.  Wait, am I forgetting something?  Oh yeah, how could I forget, steel drums.  Of course.  “Brown Rain” is the “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” of steelpan.  Or what “Maggot Brain” would be if Eddie Hazel had to share a stage with Harry Belafonte’s band.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a monster fuzz funk tune.  But Sweet Baby Jesus, Vic, couldn’t you have let up one f***ing second with those g**d*** steel drums?

Vic says no.  The steel drums stay.  And be sure to catch him on the new Let’s Make A Deal each weekday at noon.

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