Rustic Hinge
May 24, 2011 7:46 PM Subscribe
It wasn't like we were playing any kind of conventional music, it was outrageous, nasty, bad trip music... If ever there was a missing link in the history and development of British psychedelic music it is Rustic Hinge.
Comprised of bandmates whom Arthur Brown (of Crazy World... & Fire infamy [previously, sort of]) found to be too manic, Rustic Hinge played a careening, Beefheartian psych-prog cacopho-rock that seems completely divorced from pretty much everything else going on in the British psych scene at the time.
Perhaps you'd like to sample a few tracks:
Mastadon
T on the Lawn for 3
This footage, filmed when an errant BBC crew stumbled across the band's farm in Dorset while filming a documentary on locations in Thomas Hardy's novels, seems to be about all that exists of the band in action.
Originally recorded in 1970, "T on the Lawn for 3" was finally released as Replicas on vinyl by Reckless Records in 1988.
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Comprised of bandmates whom Arthur Brown (of Crazy World... & Fire infamy [previously, sort of]) found to be too manic, Rustic Hinge played a careening, Beefheartian psych-prog cacopho-rock that seems completely divorced from pretty much everything else going on in the British psych scene at the time.
Perhaps you'd like to sample a few tracks:
Mastadon
T on the Lawn for 3
This footage, filmed when an errant BBC crew stumbled across the band's farm in Dorset while filming a documentary on locations in Thomas Hardy's novels, seems to be about all that exists of the band in action.
Originally recorded in 1970, "T on the Lawn for 3" was finally released as Replicas on vinyl by Reckless Records in 1988.
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posted by hippybear at 8:00 PM on May 24, 2011
posted by hippybear at 8:00 PM on May 24, 2011
If I'd had my eyes closed and didn't read about it, and only heard the music, I'd've thought it was some of that weird Japanese rock like Boredoms. Or maybe a forerunner.
posted by symbioid at 8:19 PM on May 24, 2011
posted by symbioid at 8:19 PM on May 24, 2011
well, i'd call that beefheart meets bartok with a touch of the grateful dead - and opus pocus is a track that should not be missed
posted by pyramid termite at 8:54 PM on May 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by pyramid termite at 8:54 PM on May 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
This is great. I'd never heard of it, though I knew of Dracken Theaker's work in that weird early 70s Love lineup and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
Sometimes Metafilter does do music well!
posted by anazgnos at 9:37 PM on May 24, 2011
Sometimes Metafilter does do music well!
posted by anazgnos at 9:37 PM on May 24, 2011
Rustic Hinge played a careening, Beefheartian psych-prog cacopho-rock that seems completely divorced from pretty much everything else going on in the British psych scene at the time.
I don't know - I can definitely see comparisons to King Crimson being made ... still really interesting, though, and new to me.
posted by ryanshepard at 11:42 AM on May 25, 2011
I don't know - I can definitely see comparisons to King Crimson being made ... still really interesting, though, and new to me.
posted by ryanshepard at 11:42 AM on May 25, 2011
Thanks for this and the samples: very interesting indeed. I'd only ever heard Rustic Rod's Ethereal Counterbalance LP (1990) on UK label Woronzow. And I thought that was whacked back then.
posted by brianlavelle at 11:47 AM on May 25, 2011
posted by brianlavelle at 11:47 AM on May 25, 2011
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