Cost: $2.00
This is the naughty Radioactive Records bootleg CD, although I can't complain for the price. My first exposure to Flower Travellin' Band must certainly have been the cover on the first Outrage album. I was also familiar with some of Joe Yamanaka's solo material from Japanese TV shows and movies, but I didn't know about the connections to FTB until much later.
As with a lot of their material, a considerable chunk of this album is psychedelic/prog rock, which while atmospheric and pleasant enough from musical/historical perspectives, is a bit too outside of my scope of interest to make me want to actively seek it out. However, when they decide to get dark and heavy, the spots of doomy proto-metallic brilliance on here are unbeatable. That riff in Pt. 3 (I originally heard it in the reworked "Hiroshima" where it is equally awesome) absolutely obliterates any other kind of "psychedelic" heavy music I've ever heard. It's exactly what so many stoner, drone, and sludge bands claimed to offer but never delivered on. The riff beginning at about 4 min. into Pt. 4 also gives me strong Priest Rocka Rolla vibes (coincidentally, they also use a harmonica). Great find.
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