![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine if you will the unholy bastard child of the Doors psychedelia and early Sabbath heaviness with an electric violin tire-ironed into the mix in the place of Ray Manzarek's organ. Perhaps no band better sums up this attitude than High Tide. Music was darker, edgier, rupturing at the seams, more dangerous than ever, and no one could tell you what the fuck you were supposed to do. Suddenly, the old standards no longer applied. Following the pop sheen of the sixties 3-minute singles and the twee acoustics of psychedelic explorations into a happier time and place, proto-metal found music crashing back down to an earth brutalized by the Vietnam War, poverty and heroin addiction. One of the things that followers of proto-metal and the birth of all that became heavy love the most about their music was the sudden dissolution of the rules. ![]()
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