First Daze Here Too: The Vintage Collection

Pentagram

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 2006)
• Original Release Date: March 7, 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Relapse
• ASIN: B000CNDXFO
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #83,135 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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For Fans Of: BLACK SABBATH, DEEP PURPLE, CATHEDRAL, C.O.C., TROUBLE

Product Description

Before the name was even coined, Legendary D.C. outfit PENTAGRAM was helping to invent the beast called heavy metal. For over thirty years the band, led by eccentric founder and vocalist Bobby Liebling, has remained true to its vision of songcraft in the macabre art. This unwavering dedication has influenced scores of renowned musicians some three decades on, and the legacy grows stronger with each passing year. First Daze Here Too is a brand new 2-disc set containing rare and unreleased studio recordings and live rehearsals from the early 70's. A deluxe 28-page booklet includes lyrics, detailed historical liner notes by drummer Geof O'Keefe and scores of never-before-seen PENTAGRAM photography! First Daze Here Too is 22 tracks of vintage PENTAGRAM classics from the vaults of the influential and critically-acclaimed D.C. legends!!! The legend lives on!

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ah, the wonder and the beauty of Pentagram..., March 7, 2006

By	HeavyGuitarSunn - See all my reviews

Unlike "First Daze Here," this collection tends to be less Sabbath-influenced, less Sir Lord Baltimore-influenced. This is not to suggest that the collection is anything but wonderful. It is wonderful. It is great. It is eminently listenable. But the Pentagram sound -- as you'd hear it on "First Days Here" -- is somewhat different. This album is rockier, more balls-to-the-wall funk, more strongly influenced by Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

That said, this is still undeniably Pentagram. Bobby Liebling's vocals and lyrics give the package a kind of choppy kick, a twisted, leering funk that all Pentagram material inevitably has. The guitar and drum work gives the whole thing a diesel vomit dirge. Damn. I think these tracks were recorded under the influence of Leaf Hound, Funkadelic's "Super Stoopid," the Stooges' "Little Doll," High Tide's first album, and Bang's first two albums, rather than "Lord of This World" or "The Wizard."

You can't go wrong with this package. Pentagram gave me the incentive to seek out obscure, early 70's heavy rock, and those bands gave me the incentive to seek out obscure, late 60's acid and heavy prog rock. Pentagram's influence continues to be heard in bands like the Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Place of Skulls, Spirit Caravan, and the like. But if "First Daze Here" shows us all where bands like Witchcraft and Burning Saviours came from, then "First Daze Here Too" shows us where the Blood Farmers, Ogre, and Death Row came from. If you want a stronger Black Sabbath sound, then you might pick up Bedemon's "Child of Darkness," which sounds more like the first "First Daze Here" package, and which features the oh-so talented Randy Palmer formulating some of the most deliciously doomy riffs that side of Saint Vitus; and it features Geof O'Keefe and Bobby Liebling besides!

But whatever you do today, you should plan to buy this album. And you should listen to it all the way through. And you should pray to the gods of metal, prog, and acid-fuzz that they bestow a third "First Daze Here" package on us all. Folks: here's to Buffalo, Josefus, and Blue Cheer.

And, of course, to Pentagram.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stoners of the World Rejoice!!!, August 4, 2006

By	T. Olson "hobbitkiller" (Scandinavia WI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Awesome release of early Pentagram material. Not as good as "First Daze Here", but helluva lot better than any output from most heavy rock bands today. Fans of Leaf Hound, Stooges, early Blue Cheer and of course Black Sabbath should check this out. Also you should check out Witchcraft for that early 1970's sound.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is awesome, March 22, 2007

By	Keneth Stein - See all my reviews

I'll be honest, I don't know what doom is but this doesn't sound like it to me. This is some of the best Rock n Roll I've ever heard. It sounds like Love, the Stooges, and Black Sabbath all rolled into one. I cannot think of anything cooler than that.