Euclid: Heavy Equipment 1970, Amsterdam (Flying Dutchman Subsidiary)
Euclid’s one and only album is among the very best of it’s type, which is most certainly Heavy Rock at it’s best. The musicians themselves were of an excellent caliber & very experienced, coming from a diverse New England Garage & Psych Rock background. Groups from which they haled prior included the noteworthy Psych tinged Garage act the Lazy Smoke as well as Garage rockers the Cobras. One of the coolest things about this album is the overall evidence of it’s group members various background influence 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 of the drug saturated times. 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 member’s various instrumental contributions are equally matched by their amazingly supportive crystalline vocal harmonies. The background vocal quality was quite effectively offset by the lead vocals “take no prisoners” brutal male vocal styling. The production on this record is absolutely top notch and can’t help but to give the music it’s deep 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, musically command the attention of the listener & level any and all resistance in their path. The album itself stands to this day as a perfect monument of that which musically represents the US transition from Hard/Heavy Psych to Hard/Heavy Rock. In short, the group Euclid were one of the true “unsung” cornerstones that really helped to “pave” the way for the up and coming FM centered US Hard Rock movement. KILLER! From start to finish and reissues do in fact exist, but unfortunately, only on CD.
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Hi,
First post. This lp is stellar for its genre. I found it years ago, and it still does not have a dull moment. Great add.
el
One of my absolute faves -fantastic heavy psych -you owe it to yourself to hear this if you’re into the genre,..much, much better than some of the biggest rare items dealers rave about.
I have heard a lot of raves about this LP but, alas, original copies seem to have become just about unaffordable. Given all of the obscure late ’60s/early ’70s albums that have been reissued by Scorpio, why not this one? Or has it?
Scott,..there’s one on ebay right now..there’s also a cd reissue you can get from Rockadrome Records,..Google them..
Johnny
Hey Scott, this is available on CD. It can be found HERE Also I created a myspace and Website page as a tribute as I knew/know 2 members euclid1970.tripod.com
http://www.myspace.com/euclid1970
As heavy as the nutz that hit Veronica on her/his chin.
I can’t recommend this album. Because once you hear it, you’ll want thirty more albums in the same vein, and they’ll be nowhere to be found.
Maybe Oasis’ “Gas Panic” comes the closest to the compulsively industrial and trundling Euclid sound. But this is a full album, with no let-up, of steamrollering fuzzy-bassed monstrosity. Even their cover of “Gimme Some Lovin'” pulverizes you like a crippled marmot crossing Route 66.
Whatever became of these guys?? Truly amazing stuff.
It makes Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple sound tame and commercial. ‘Standing in the Shadows’ is a phenomenal song!!
Heavy Psych bordering on Heavy Hardrock
They are perhaps not as psychedelic as Heavy Psych pulverizers like Stone Garden, Josefus,Sainte Anthony’s Fyre or Joshua BUT the Lp is a Monster never the less, it has a polished sound that annoys me a bit, but than again I’m all for the cruder rawer Cheer like sound.
I thought I’d let everyone know the Euclid-Heavy Equipment album now available from the original 2 track stereo master tapes!,..unfortunately, as the actual session tapes have not been located,..there is no access to unreleased material,..therefore an actual CD pressing is out of the question,..but Ace Records UK have the original album available as downloadable 320 kpbs files,..and like I said-it IS from an un EQ’d master tape, (transferred by Alec Palao)..the sound quality is way better than all the previous needle-drop boot CD’s. Here’s the link: http://acerecords.co.uk/heavy-equipment-mp3
Euclid – Heavy Equipment (MP3) – Ace Records
Heavy Equipment (MP3) by Euclid on Ace Records
acerecords.co.uk