Various Artists - Brown Acid - The Fifth Trip (Various Artists) - VINYL LP

If you thought Riding Easy was getting close to the end of the Brown Acid series with their last Trip, you were dead wrong. They're only just getting rolling. The well of privately released hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal 45s is deep and nowhere near tapped out. Most of these records, barely released and never properly distributed, were never easy to find, unless you're willing to dig. Hard calluses have formed from handling the shovel and sifting through a lot of dirt, but here are another ten tremendous tracks to share with all the heavy heads out there. This volume brings together eight insanely rare and skullcrushingly heavy 45s as well as two previously unreleased bangers.The records included on this volume vary in rarity, but at least two of them were virtually unknown until Riding Easy discovered them. You'll win the lottery before you find copies of all of the original 45s in even the best record stores. Many of those included in this volume are owned only by the members of the bands and some of the band members don't even have personal copies. That's just how hard these guys hit it back in the day! It's lucky some of these guys are still alive and well enough to give permission to use their masters.Brown Acid is here to stay-plug in, turn up, and freak out, this is what rock 'n' roll is all about!

We continue down the wormhole of hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal here on The Third Trip with a set of tunes so obscure they can't be seen without a third eye. Most of these tracks were recorded in shack-sized studios, privately pressed for promotional purposes, and tossed out like last night's half empties only to later be discovered to be half-full, if not overflowing with greatness. The majority of these tracks are from the good ol' US of A with two exceptions, Ash-labelmate New Zealanders, Chook, and the mighty Limeys, Factory. As they say, first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the hairy chest.

The forthcoming ninth edition of the popular compilation series featuring long-lost vintage '60s-'70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid - The Ninth Trip is set for ! Some of the best thrills of the Internet music revolution are the ability to find extremely rare music with great ease. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered for nearly half a century-particularly in genres that lacked hifalutin arty pretense. Previously, only the most extremely dedicated and passionate record collectors had the stamina and prowess to hunt down long forgotten wonders in dusty record bins-often hoarding them in private collections, or selling at ridiculous collector's prices. Legendary compilations like Nuggets, Pebbles, ad nauseum, have exhausted the mines of early garage rock and proto-punk, keeping alive a large cross-section of underground ephemera. However, few have delved into and expertly archived the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock tracks collected on Brown Acid.InchWill do for hard rock, proto-metal and heavy psych what Nuggets did for garage rock, and bring it to a wider audience of collectors and music fans.Inch -The Guardian InchSo rare that diehard fuzz junkies say you'd have a better chance of winning the lottery than finding a physical 45 RPM single by one of the bands featured on their latest installment.Inch -Dangerous Minds