you people are nuts, the music is grating (i got a headache from this shit LITERALLY!) this band is nothing more the a glorified garage band. the sonics of this album make me sick.................and yes im a HUGE eccentric music fan
@rwk1983 Obviously NOT a eclectic music fan either. So go back to your Lynyrd Skynrd & BTO records and leave the true music aficionados alone. This LP was a great LP and a great concept LP to boot. A few members were in fact with Rotary Connection.
Always loves this band----I'm seein most of their songs except " A Thousand Thoughts" which I thought was beautiful ps i did see it on myspace tho,[wish it was here] hint hint
I was the day bartender at a club these guys played at (The Gables) in East Lansing, MI. They would come in early every afternoon to work on the songs that eventually became this album. Never saw a harder working group of musicians. They would go over the same phrase 30 or 40 times until they thought they had it right. I still have a pretty good copy - it only gets played on special occasions
Back in '69, my brother brought this album by a local Chicago band with us on our move to Van Nuys, California. Needles to say, no one in California had ever heard of them. In our new digs, our little tribe wore the grooves out on this one. I picked up a mail-order cd from overseas a couple of years back. Still love the guitar sounds on this record.
Found a copy of the LP in a record store in Pendleton, Oregon--what a flashback after 30+years since my last copy became too scratched to play. I also have Aorta 2 on Happy Tiger but this one is such a gem all the way through!!!
Really cool to stumble on to this. I loved aorta back in the late 60's. Thought I would never find this ever again. Owned two copies in my lifetime, and would like to make it three.
Wow.. I thought nobody knew who these guys were. They were kind of weird. I bought this album when I was 13. My friends thought I was stoned. Well DUH!
I bought this album in 67 or 68. Still have it...
chezhozay 1 month ago
I love this. Bought it when it was released and have it on CD just ten feet away from me. This is sweet. Thanks for putting it up.
kellyjdrummer1 1 month ago
you people are nuts, the music is grating (i got a headache from this shit LITERALLY!) this band is nothing more the a glorified garage band. the sonics of this album make me sick.................and yes im a HUGE eccentric music fan
rwk1983 7 months ago
@rwk1983
Ha ha ... it's ok not to like a band, but it's pretty obvious you never lived your life. I love garage bands. Psychedelic garage rocks.
Eccentric? I don't think so ...
hezarrc 3 months ago
@rwk1983 Obviously NOT a eclectic music fan either. So go back to your Lynyrd Skynrd & BTO records and leave the true music aficionados alone. This LP was a great LP and a great concept LP to boot. A few members were in fact with Rotary Connection.
BTW, the Sonics were a GREAT garage band.
runway27r 2 months ago
This band came to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in 1969. So did the Soft Machine, man what memories.
crazyunclerex59 1 year ago
you probably don't wan't to know how many g.i.s were listening to this album, and diggin' it while "defending democracy"
coldscorpio619 1 year ago
Always loves this band----I'm seein most of their songs except " A Thousand Thoughts" which I thought was beautiful ps i did see it on myspace tho,[wish it was here] hint hint
brberge 1 year ago
I was the day bartender at a club these guys played at (The Gables) in East Lansing, MI. They would come in early every afternoon to work on the songs that eventually became this album. Never saw a harder working group of musicians. They would go over the same phrase 30 or 40 times until they thought they had it right. I still have a pretty good copy - it only gets played on special occasions
Snidely1000 1 year ago
Back in '69, my brother brought this album by a local Chicago band with us on our move to Van Nuys, California. Needles to say, no one in California had ever heard of them. In our new digs, our little tribe wore the grooves out on this one. I picked up a mail-order cd from overseas a couple of years back. Still love the guitar sounds on this record.
obbor4 1 year ago
Found a copy of the LP in a record store in Pendleton, Oregon--what a flashback after 30+years since my last copy became too scratched to play. I also have Aorta 2 on Happy Tiger but this one is such a gem all the way through!!!
mellotrongirl 1 year ago
Really cool to stumble on to this. I loved aorta back in the late 60's. Thought I would never find this ever again. Owned two copies in my lifetime, and would like to make it three.
joseppi54 2 years ago
@joseppi54 you can download this album legally from emusic.com or of course probably illegally with bit torrent but i can't condone that...
LTBL88 1 year ago
Wow.. I thought nobody knew who these guys were. They were kind of weird. I bought this album when I was 13. My friends thought I was stoned. Well DUH!
tmont007 2 years ago 2
Half these guys were in The Rotary Connection with Minnie Ripperton
runway27r 2 years ago 2
This album was on d edge. Ask HardWare.
aortafromphilly 3 years ago 2
This is a great album. It runs together seamlessly. Their second album sounds nothing like this one but it is very good as well.
MikeHF 3 years ago