GOLIATH Hot Rock & Thunder ORIGINAL PRIVATE PRESS PROG

$ 38

$ 38 Sold For

Jun 26, 2011 Sold Date

Jun 19, 2011 Start Date

$ 30 Start price

3 Number Of Bids

USA Country Of Seller

eBay Auctioned at

save auction

Description

GOLIATH HOT ROCK & THUNDER

BRIDGES RECORDS BG-2704-LP 1975

DISC-MINT UNPLAYED

COVER-MINT IN SHRINK ONLY OPENED TO SEE LABEL INFO

The long-lost band named Goliath may have been reared in the dreary industrial city of Terre Haute, IN, nestled in Chicago's armpit on the south shore of Lake Michigan, but their music was as extravagant and cosmopolitan as it came during the heavy rock heyday of the 1970s. True, "We're Not Afraid," which opened the band's only album, 1975's Hot Rock & Thunder, (half Deep Purple Mark III funk-rock, half Emerson, Lake & Palmer ), but the wonderfully named "Dead Drunk Screamin'" brilliantly contrasted its roaring power chords with soaring choired vocals reminiscent of vintage Uriah Heep. Goliath's occasional detours into barroom boogie (à la Ronnie James Dio's Elf) for the likes of "Tell Me You're Satisfied" and the title track proved memorable, but the group's tight and energetic performances, combined with singer Jim Kitchen's booming delivery never totally disappointed, either. And side two was where the quintet really spread its progressive rock wings, as guitarist Paul Bays' unfettered six-string bombast and keyboardist Dave Wood's Baroque piano work and futuristic synthesizer parts jousted for supremacy across multi-faceted creations like "The Apocalypse," "Silver Girl" (boasting a tasty classical piano mid-section), and the more toned down semi-ballad "Ordinary Guy" . All in all, and though anything but perfect, the sheer creative breadth displayed by Goliath on this LP, in spite of recording on a shoestring budget under God knows what dire circumstances, was really quite remarkable; and the fact that its songs often appear torn between the decade's first and second halves (the first simultaneously artsy and raw; the second marked by increased technology pointing toward AOR) actually heightens its idiosyncratic appeal, to the endless curiosity of subsequent generations of collectors.

Tracks

Title Composer Time 1 We're Not Afraid Kitchen, Peters, Peters 5:12 2 Tell Me You're Satisfied Bays, Peters 5:03 3 Dead Drunk Screamin' Bays, Kitchen, Peters 4:18 4 Hot Rock and Thunder Peters 3:05 5 The Apocalypse Peters, Peters 6:04 6 Silver Girl Bays, Wood 6:01 7 Ordinary Guy Peters

FOR CANADIAN ORDERS OR MULTIPLE PURCHASES, PLEASE DO NOT PAY UNTIL YOU RECEIVE AN INVOICE. I SHIP TO CANADA FOR $9, NOT $16. I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU GET THE LEAST EXPENSIVE SHIPPING BY COMBINING ITEMS. VINTAGE RECORDS ARE ALWAYS IN STOCK AND SHIP WITHIN 7 DAYS OF PAYMENT. SHIPPING INFORMATION: FOR CONTINENTAL US 10" OR 12" $4.00 VIA USPS MEDIA MAIL EACH ADDITONAL 12" $1. CANADA: $9 FOR THE 1ST LP, $1 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 7" $3.00 EACH ADDITIONAL 7" $.50 THE REST OF THE WORLD: $16 USPS AIR LETTER POST EACH ADDITIONAL 12" $3.00 7" $7.00 EACH ADDTIONAL 7" $2.00 I USE HEAVY CARDBOARD MAILERS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR SHIPPING FRAGILE PHONOGRAPH RECORDS. RECORDS ARE PACKED WITH CARE AND SHIP WITHIN 7 DAYS OF PAYMENT.

price rating