Euclid - Heavy Equipment (1970) {Flying Dutchman-SkyfZol PD138 rel 2005}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (image)+CUE+LOG -> 251 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 79 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 16 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1970, 2005 Flying Dutchman / SkyfZol | PD 138
Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Hard Rock / Heavy-Psych
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.
more INFO
Personnel:
Gary Leavitt (guitar, vocals)
Harry "Maris" Perino (bass, vocals)
Ralph Mazzota (guitar, vocals)
Jay Leavitt (drums, vocals)
Track Listing
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
EAC extraction logfile from 21. April 2009, 19:13 for CD
Euclid / Heavy Equipment
Used drive : LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1H Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename C:\blog\upload\Euclid - Heavy Equipment\Euclid - Heavy Equipment.wav
Peak level 96.6 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC 29A99A2E
Copy OK
No errors occured
End of status report
Euclid / Heavy Equipment
Used drive : LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1H Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename C:\blog\upload\Euclid - Heavy Equipment\Euclid - Heavy Equipment.wav
Peak level 96.6 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC 29A99A2E
Copy OK
No errors occured
End of status report
===