1975 CAIN POUND OF FLESH WICKED HARD HEAVY
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FANTASTIC MINT ORIGINAL
EXPLOSIVE HARD ROCK GRINDER ~ LOCAL 1975 COLLECTIBLE
CAIN
A POUND OF FLESH
USA - ASI RECORDS - 204
TOP ((minty clean)) COPY!!
RARE sought after 1975 platter of prime GRINDING HARD ROCK at its best, on the small ASI Minnesota label..the band, CAIN, and album, "A POUND OF FLESH" long ago gained a solid collectible reputation in collector circles around the globe...copies have all but dried up being in private libraries and only getting more extince by the day...HERE'S a TOP notch minty clean winner :
“Katy girl, chocolate and sweets
you’re the prettiest girl that I have kissed
Would you really mind if I took a ride on you?”
Now that is a CAN of slimy, slithering, vile, disemboweled intestines, overflowing from the
tin can as if it were a merely a rusted-out can of baked beans boiling over the campfire. This cover is sick looking stuff, friends.
What we're referring to, obviously, is the graphically sick, yet perversely beautiful artwork for Cain’s A Pound of Flesh ...Minnesota hard rock legends Cain took a lot of time to develop the mesmerizing HARDROCK sound found on their A Pound of Flesh debut. The band formed in the late 1960s out of the exoskeletons and peels of rival Twin Cities bands The Grasshoppers and The Bananas(!), and after breaking up eventually combined forces and changed their name to Cain.... Cain was led by phenomenal vocalist Jiggs Lee, their talented guitarist Lloyd Forsberg and the towering thunder of bassist Dave Elmeer. They sharpened their claws in the Chicago club circuit of the early ’70s, and routinely toured Milwaukee and Iowa, as well as their native Minnesota.
A remarkable note about Cain is that, despite their ultimate obscurity, they were actually contemporaries with some bands that would become huge arena rock acts. Cain plowed the same club territory that bands such as Kansas, Styx and Cheap Trick also inhabited, while others like Todd Rundgren, Fleetwood Mack and Mott the Hoople were prowling clubs after
shows in search of an open stage.
A Pound of Flesh came to fruition in 1975, and the result of six years of labor was an incredibly innovative and harmonically rich piece of work, one
that grows on the listener and becomes embedded in the head and soul with each listen. Their sound was decidedly ’70s, of course, but they possessed a much more grandiose, and bombastic edge than later heavies like Amulet.
Jiggs Lee’s ballsy throat stylings, are absolutely breathtaking, shifting from the crystalline, to wicked screams to beautifully operatic falsetto with precision. Forsberg employs plenty of monster guitar riffs that recall Ritchie Blackmore with equal aplomb, and his well-textured and
fiery solo sections are flawless. We can’t find any fault with the groove machine that is the rhythm section of DeRemer and Elmeer either; Elmeer’s bass lines are ever-moving like John Entwistle, but ponderously heavy, more like Sabbath's Geezer Butler; DeRemer anchors the band with finesse but never takes the band in too extreme of a tempo direction.
It’s hard to describe accurate A Pound of Flesh in general terms, except to say that if one is in the mood for listening to exciting top notch grinding hard rock with plenty of balls, Cain generally fits the bill. Check the cuts out below:
2. “Katy”. A gorgeous, distorted arpeggiated guitar line opens this pseudo ballad that is among the album’s best and most dramatic cuts. The unbelievable arpeggios again underline the chorus on several occasions, and combined with a flute-like sound in the background, create a haunting ambience. Lee’s vocals truly shine here as well, but “Katy,” as a whole, is a
masterpiece of dynamic variance and masterful songcraftsmanship.
3. “South Side Queen.” Track 3 opens with a cowbell-propelled riff that morphs into Forsberg’s tasty verse riff. This hard-grooving stomper boasts catchy riffing, sweet vocal harmonies and a killer bassline.
4. “Badside.” A southern-blues kinda tune, this one is a nice change of pace from the album’s first three tracks. Call it swamp rock, lethargic but melodic enough to keep it interesting.
5. “Born of the Wind.” This is an uptempo, straight-ahead grooving song and heavily blues-based, features some more stellar leads from Forsberg.
6. “Heed the Call.” Now, this one’s a winner! Forsberg goes to town on the Blackmore-esque opening guitar riff. This is another mid-tempo tune that is somewhat akin to the powerful work of Dio-fronted Sabbath.
7. “If The Right Don’t Get You The Left One Will.” Ahh, heavy rock needs way more songs about masterbation in the bathroom to porn magazines -- with has a cheerful main guitar riff, it’s all a cheerful and fairly catchy batch of self-indulgent pleasure.
8. “All My Life.” The album’s closer is a bit of an epic, and certainly one of Cain’s strongest songs. Forsberg’s crunchy, palm-muted opening riff gives way to some flanged chords, followed by the pre-NWOBHM H-E-A-V-Y force of the verse riff. This one’s got it all: acoustic arpeggios, awesome vocals, fluid basslines, WICKED VOCALS, a memorable
chorus, and introspective lyrics. It’s an overall good tune, ya know, and simply running out of things to say about the whole deal.
[SIDE A] Queen of the Night
Katy
South Side Queen
Badside [SIDE B] Born of the Wind
Heed the Call
If the Right Don't Get You the Left One Will
All My Life
CONDITION: The cover is a TOP COPY MINT all clean, stiff and solid with 4 sharp corners = looks new even though a 100% guaranteed 36 year old RARE local pressing ... the dark cover is prome to shelf wear, this copy = PERFECT...don't miss = no split seams, no bends, no writing
The vinyl is all clean and MINT over both sides with clean labels renders this one of the BEST copies you can hope to find....
keeper copy!
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTIBLES!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for more & more of similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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