Power Plant

Golden Dawn | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: March 15, 2009
• Label: Power Plant
• Copyright: 2009 Power Plant
• Total Length: 32:20
• Genres:
• ASIN: B001YWEC70
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,202 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, Virginia, they take LSD in Texas!, October 14, 2002

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Joe C. Mazzini (Montgomery Creek, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Plant (Spec) (Audio CD)

Purchasing this limited edition import CD comes with my personal guarantee that you will be transported back to the days when things were so much easier because the lines were drawn more clearly between those who were enlightened and those who were not. It's a pity that it took 35 years for me to discover this band... *Every* song transports you to "the era" when and where we thought we were going to change the world by combining drugs with music. Few efforts from the late-1960s hold up to close scrutiny because of the studio excesses that molded the music into a rigid format. I promise (excuse me: guarantee) that Golden Dawn is as fresh today as it was in 1968. Dare I say their work was seminal? Probably not because I AM AN AUTHORITY on the 1960s; but, there is something here that transcends the decades and fills the heart with joy and the brain with marvelous visions.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pure 100% Texas Psychedelia, March 29, 2008

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squidshack (Glendale, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Plant (Audio CD)

Golden Dawn's `Power Plant' is one of those criminally overlooked albums put out in the early years of psychedelic rock music. Alongside the 13th Floor Elevators, The Red Krayola & Bubble Puppy, Golden Dawn was one of Texas' major psychedelic exports. This album is full of swirling garage rock & blues inflected tunes.

People looking for any type of `Parable of Arable Land' style freak-out jams should look elsewhere however, as the songs on `Power Plant' are concise rock songs (more `Psychedelic Sounds' than `Easter Everywhere' for all you Elevator aficionados). Some of the highlights of this album include:

Track 3). Starvation: One of the most 13th Floor Elevator sounding songs on the album, with vocalist George Kinney sounding eerily akin to his friend Roky Erickson. This has some great piercing guitar work courtesy of the two Golden Dawn guitarists Jimmy Bird and Tom Ramsey.

Track 6). My Time: This a great rollicking tune, with a catchy chorus and more superb, rolling guitar picking all through the song culminating on a simple yet perfect eastern-tinged guitar solo.

Track 8). Every Day: This is a slow, spectral song that ends in very cool backwards guitar with the pulsing hi-hat in the background holding it all together till it drifts away into nothingness.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most inivative Texas Psych Album of its time, January 20, 2003

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"happenin_hippy" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Plant (Audio CD)

The guitar work by Tom Ramsey and Jimmy Bird is very unique and cool.They were great band and really ahead of their time.If you like The Thirteenth Floor Elevators you will love this.A must for any true collector.