Filed under: News Facebook.com Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, a guitarist best known for his brief stint with the psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly , died Monday (Jan. 2) in Florida, the Sarasota Patch reports. He was 63. Reinhardt was hospitalized last week with an infection, and by Sunday, he had been moved to intensive care. According to the Patch, he was placed on life support but taken off a short [...]
13 July 1976, Times Herald Record (Middletown, NY), pg. 7, cols. 1-2: The so-called "Minnesota Strip"—a stretch of 8th Avenue between 42nd and 52nd Streets—was barren of hookers, pimps and convention delegates. An area of cheap bars, massage parlors, porno book stores, peep shows and hotels of questionable repute, the "Minnesota Strip" got its name [...]
Jon Fine's best known band was Bitch Magnet, a (usually) three piece active from the late 80s to the early 90s. Though hardly a metal outfit, Fine was a vocal apostle of heavy music in the independent circles the band traveled in, deeply knowledgeable and conversant in obscure, loud shit going back to the [...]
WERE BACK!!!! 16 songs, no hip-hop this week but plenty of variety none the less…

Captain Beyond: Frozen Over [purchase] Progressive rock, heavy blues, wild jazz and frickin' SPACE! Captain Beyond's delicious hard rock gumbo had all the right ingredients. Consisting of a dude from Deep Purple and two dudes Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond was a veritable who's who of early 1970's proto heavy metal. Between 1972 and 1977 they released three must-own albums full of goodies, every bit as good as anything their associated acts ever released. Frozen Over is my favorite song [...]

Warner/Reprise accounted for the second half of 1972 with two more double-LP samplers, both with the variety that characterized the previous offerings. The wide range of musical styles was heightened by the fact that the label also distributed records from other imprints including Bearsville (Foghat), Bizarre (Frank Zappa & the Mothers), Brother (Beach Boys), Capricorn (Allman Brothers), Chrysalis (Jethro Tull), Pentagram, Raccoon and Viva. On Burbank, we got to hear some more rock from Alice Cooper, with "Public Animal #9," some bloozy boogie from Foghat, some New Orleans from The Meters with "Cabbage Alley" and good ol' Arlo [...]

This is post number 1000 on Local Vertical. I was pondering what might be appropriate to celebrate this quasi-momentous occasion: another giveaway, some super-exclusive music track no one else had available, a shocking announcement of some sort. Nah, I'll just say what I feel and that's to simply say thank you. Thanks to so many bands and agents and their followers that have sent great music that if not for this blog I may never have heard of. Thanks to the numerous blogs that link here because they feel what I write is actually worthy of sharing. But most of [...]

La noche del verano de 1969 en que Jon Lord y Ritchie Blackmore asistieron a un concierto de la banda de beat y rock psicodélico Episode Six , flotaba en el ambiente una extraña sensación de cambio. Episode Six conocía de antemano la presencia de los dos miembros de Deep Purple entre el público, y habían escuchado rumores sobre la intención de los de Hertfordshire de hacerse [...]

Even members of successful bands don't have all the luck when they strike out on their own, especially if they're not the star of their former band. Though the fertile music environment left chances open to many, not everyone who struck out on their own could sell records like Blind Faith. Hell they didn't even sell that many and they were a "supergroup", these faired a bit worse but that doesn't totally discount their talent and effort. Fat Mattress - Fat Mattress [...]

Black Sabbath - supernaut Zior - I really do T. Rex - Cadillac ZZ Top - Tush Budgie - Breadfan Captain Beyond - dancing madly backwards The Guess Who - no sugar tonight Blue Cheer - summertime blues [...]