EUCLID – HEAVY EQUIPMENT – 1970 (DUTCH) hard rock

Euclid "Heavy Equipment" CD reissue of little known classic hard rock psychedelic record originally released on the Flying Dutchman label in 1970. Holy hell that first track is a real winner clocking in at over 11 minutes and blasting forth with real monster heavy riffs at the 3/4 way mark! The whole album is a pretty solid hard rocker too with loud drums, bass and guitars! This was something I had wanted to reissue myself someday, but it looks like someone beat me to it! One of these guys originally played with Beatles-psych legends Lazy Smoke (another classic you'll be able to find here pretty soon).

"Jay and Gary Leavitt, along with Bobby Herne, made their first musical rumblings in 1966 as the Cobras, releasing the New England garage classic "I Wanna Be Your Lover"/"Instant Heartache". Fast-forward to 1970 and the brothers, joined by Ralph Mazotta (ex-Lazy Smoke) and Harold Perino Jr. (aka "Maris"), transformed into the hard psychedelic aggro Euclid, signed to Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman subsidiary Amsterdam and were one of the few (only?) "rock" releases on either label (a notable exception being the rare Minx soundtrack by The Cyrkle). Herne, manning the producer's chair (a role he would later repeat for The Shaggs' Philosophy Of The World LP), created a "bad trip" spiked with backwards tape effects, darkly-phased vocals, all instruments set to "pummel" and an album title certainly eligible for the "truth in advertising" award! Tread carefully dear listener, as Gary, Bobby, Maris and Bob have all passed on due to various circumstances over the years..."
1 Shadows of Life 11:32
- On the Way
- Bye Bye Baby
2 Gimme Some Lovin' 3:38
3 First Time Last Time 2:52
4 Lazy Livin' 5:57
5 97 Days 3:11
6 She's Gone 2:47
7 It's All Over Now 3:23
Euclid: S/T is amongst the very best in it's genre which is most certainly Heavy Rock at it's best. The musicians themselves were excellent & very experienced, coming from a diverse New England Garage & Psych rock background. One of the coolest things about this album is the overall evidence of the group members various background influences on it. In Euclid, you get the very best of it all. You have the raw & ferocious high energy Garage element mixed with a very clear and real psychedelic conviction. These over shadowing characteristics combined with their new heavy/hard rock discipline & focus, resulted in one of the best early Heavy Rock albums ever recorded in the United States. The combined pinnacle of the member's instrumental development is equally matched by their amazing crystalline vocal harmonies. This was all offset by the lead vocalist's "take no prisoners" brutal male vocal stylings. The production on this record is absolutely top notch and can't help but to give the music it's unstoppable heavy forward momentum. Very much living up to the group's namesake, the guitar, bass & drums on this record, in typical earth moving fashion, will level any and all resistance in their path. In short, Euclid were one of the true "unsung" fundamental cornerstones in the emerging commercial US Hard/Heavy rock movement. KILLER! From start to finish.

Highly recommended!
Rip from CD 256@ (full artwork included)
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