Sir Lord Baltimore "Lady of Fire"

[vpapa57]

Sir Lord Baltimore are a pioneering American heavy metal band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 1968 by lead vocalist/drummer John Garner, guitarist Louis Dambra, and bass player Gary Justin. They are most notable for the fact that a 1971 review of their debut record, Kingdom Come, contained the first documented use of the term "heavy metal" to refer to a style of music.[1] Additionally, Sir Lord Baltimore featured a drumming lead singer, traditionally a rarity in rock and metal music.[2]

[moobie1010]

amazing how the interwebz gives you access to awesome old bands that the radio never did and never would

[SunofMercury]

I like how with this music there is no argument, it's infallible, and only everyone agree that it's untouchable, whereas on the other hand with all of the Thrash and whatnot, if you look at the comments, all you see is "METALLICA IS BETTRZ!" and "THERE ARE MORE PEEPLZ IN SLIPKNOT SO THERE KEWLER!"

[ChainsawOfDoom]

@SunofMercury

It might have something to do with the fact that Metallica and Slipknot fans are in many cases, clueless kids..... or that many underground Thrash fans still can't really accept that the mainstream will never care for the bands that aren't part of the Big 4 and are always saying "I think these bands should be on the Big 4 instead of ___".... who gives a fuck really! SLB is great. No need to argue about it! hahaha! :)

PD I like your tastes, I subscribed :)

[rjplamf61]

These guys were the fucking shit, Totally badass!

[theinmortal6]

Considering that my favourite band is Black Sabbath, I´m loving this a lot.

[DrxLuis]

Thank God for "related videos", looking for some Lucifer's Friend song and i find this, another jewel of the 70's

[atti1488]

i named my girl L.O.F few years ago because of this song...i still call her lady of fire..

She said that i should

i said that i would

She called me a lair

The lady of fire :D

[yarborg1]

atomic rooster is heavy,very heavy,atomic rooster can bitchslap spiderman,n thats heavy

[beroth77]

Atomic Rooster is waaaay lighter then these guys... really can't see them as metal..at all.

[yarborg1]

how fucked r u,seriously the gov has gone mental,they have gone crazy

[yarborg1]

take your vaccine shots you fkn humans now

[dfftw]

@yarborg1 same here....but i would add witchfinder general and lucifers friend(1st alboom)

[ThrashNWOBHManiac]

My Top 5 of the greatest bands of All Time:

1. Black Sabbath (1969 -1978)

2. Saint Vitus

3. Blue Cheer

4. Pagan Altar

5. Sir Lord Baltimore

Cheers from Colombia

[yarborg1]

yes indeed,makes my toes twinkle

[piiglumps]

UGH!!! my ears just came...

[mellotrongirl]

sounds great between Patto and Mind Garage!

[David50s]

Scot Muni loved this group. He would play a cut fromtheir LP every day.

[Lasse2112]

Classic stuff indeed! This is just the kind of music I play on my station. All the 70s bands that never got the recognition and credit they deserved.

Thanks for posting this!

[mikexlong]

now those are some manly vocals

[snubbs741]

archtypal heavy metal voice!

[astaroth6969]

get the cd

[vinto34]

Never heard of this band before,im glad i have now...this kicks ass.

[HengistTheGreat]

Likewise vinto34, I love finding bands I should have heard of, but haven't! :)

My reflex Wiki scan says that these guys inspired a news journalist with the term "heavy metal", which is not to say that they were the first to play heavy metal.

[DRATCHFAN]

If there is a better vocalist on the face the earth than the guy from Sir Lord Baltimore, God is hiding him from us.

[meeces13]

this is new to me and VERY VERY cool!

great stuff!

[yyzcygnus]

awesome vocals, this guy probably had more women than all of you fags

[SuRihtanil]

@yyzcygnus I doubt it SLB wasn't very big in the 70s they only had two albums back then and they didn't really go anywhere.

[crazedminnesotan]

awesome guitar...weird vocals

Course I thought the same thing the first time I heard zeppelin

[giuliosacchi79]

good shit. pentagram also did some great stuff in the early 70s.NOTthe pentagram from turkey. slb was abig influence on those guys

[disturbedspike]

theres nothing wrong with his singing, the song is pretty good

[MattHatter]

holydiver73, trust me, you have to give John Garner some time to grow on you. If you like early metal, YOU MUST...I repeat...YOU MUST get this album and their self-titled follow up. You can still find the two-fer CD on Amazon and E-Bay. You won't believe this stuff came out in 1970/1971. I know John Garner personally, he's a friend of mine on My Space. Check out "Hard Rain Fallin'" too, that's another massively heavy one!

[Nattpyret]

Love this!

[klongstein]

How can I have lived for 26 years and never heard of this band?

[KSHE1967]

If you like this try "from a dry camel" by Dust

[angrysamoan666]

Dust is a one trick pony, Sir `lord kills

[edslides]

amen brother. (and im 49) couldna said it better myself.

sounds like a few other bands i remember from the 70s that i have completely forgotten about. i can hear ten other bands here.

anybody remember "bang"?

[DystoMysto]

bow to the king!

[ThrashNWOBHManiac]

@edslides Yes sir, i remember that awesome band. My band will cover ''Redman'' or ''Questions''

[Kao777]

lol !!!

[Sabbathodoom]

Excellent!!One of the most heavy bands in the 70's

[OnlyAPawn1970]

Cant find their records anywhere...or Bangs...is this on CD?

[thereagauze]

yeah both LPs on one CD.

They have a new CD out in the last 3 years or so, the production is all wrong for them the guitar sounds too modern ...

[VodkaDrunkenski]

Awesome band. Early Heavy Metal is the best. If you like this, check out Lucifer's Friend's first album and Budgie.

[doddy225]

think i might look these up on ebay see if i cant get myself an album!

[SleepOverProductions]

great song

[beefheart67]

yeah i bought this album in 74 as a cutout and was totally blown away! their manager was dee anthony of humble pie and peter frampton fame. they really should have done better. as is they are a cult band of great status. thanks you tube

[deadhorse89]

woman from tokyo

[TrollExterminator]

Great to find this on the tube!!

[stanleytone1]

i am so thankful i was a teen when this band was out we dug this band so much.we were a small but rabid following.put on master heartache!!!!

[UriahNate]

This is a band that wolfmother really sounds like, not sabbath or zep. You geezers out there should checkem out.BTW love this shit, them lesser knowns of ther earlt 70s.

[franoreck]

They lived around the corner from me in Boro Park Brooklyn and would jam in the street for block parties on 53 st. in 1971

[Sonicallyoutoftune]

Man, i only discovered these guys like a week ago after reading a Classic Rock article featuring heavy metal as the theme. Got Kingdom Come and self titled. brilliant i must say. I actually wrote to Garner after i found there website and he wrote back!~

[twovolt]

They were definitley a hard rocking band for there day. I luckily have both there albums on vinly and cd. They are avaiable you just have to look in the right place.

[msjleroy1]

WHERE WHERE WHERE? I saw them back up Black Sabbath at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee in the very early 70's

[ZephyrZorlon79]

How does an awesome band like this go unnoticed by the mainstream? Maybe their

songs are too long? Man from Manhattan's

at least 15mins. Far as I know they only

released 2 albums. Try to find them at

a record store..good luck man.

[sirlordwhitman]

They signed a bum contract. They don't get one red cent from the cd release which contains both albums.

As for Man from Manhattan.. weakest song of the album. The rest is killer. Manhattan could have used a little more revising to make it more epic.

[Jocento]

No money coming? That really sucks, I'm loving these guys

[glambush2]

Jesus Christ this is fucking amazing! The verse has the same bass line as LOVE's version of 'Hey Joe'...

[sihingjimo]

Hey, I don't know "love"'s version of Hey Joe, but now that you mention it, the bass line is extremely like "Hey Joe", it was going around in the '60's, then of course Hendrix did it, but now that you mention it, the bass line here is as you say...Good Ears!!

[Bopalena]

I first heard the term heavy metal in Steppenwolf's song "Born to be Wild" from 1968. HEAVY METAL THUNDER. Saw these guys at the Fillmore East in early '71 with the J. Geils Band and headliners Black Sabbath back when Ozzy was known as John Osbourne, his real name.

[thereagauze]

The Steppenwolf reference is to bikes not music though ... right?

William Borroughs uses the term Heavy Metal a few times in early 60s books but that's in reference to drugs.

Chemists have used the term before there were electric instruments but I digress.

[ley98]

An older friend says in about 1971-72 he went to an outdoor rock fest with Black Sabbath, Sir Lord Baltimore, Cactus, Alice Cooper and I think the MC5. All the hippies were expecting to hear something mellow like the Dead and insted got ambushed by early heavy metal. Im not sure where and when it took place but it supposedly was a forerunner to the ozzfests we have now.

[johnarthurknight]

Rolling Stone magazine first used the term heavy metal in an album review of Humble Pie.

[thereagauze]

the reviewer in RS was metal mike saunders, who also called Sir Lord Baltimore a Heavy Metal band in the may 71 issue of creem (which someone references below). The Humble Pie usage was used as an insult and not to describe a genre of music, so it's fair to say SLB were the first band called heavy metal (but come on Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer, Sabbath, etc all came before them ...)

[beroth77]

@thereagauze Sabbath did't came before them,both bands first album is from 1970.

[SharinganMan]

@beroth77 Yeah but Sabbath was putting out more volume and were generally better-known. Way back in the very very early days, SLB would be opening for Sabbath

[sihingjimo]

Used to play this stuff in my high school band...nice to see it's still out there gettin' listened to...

[knumorvid]

were can i find sir lord baltimore tabs?

[knumorvid]

plz more

[Dumorian]

check wikipedia: these guys ARE a heavy metal band and they were the first to use the term "heavy metal" about their music. Heavy metal wouldn't exist without these guys.

[SyntheticGenerator]

Damn right - these guys are THE metal band

[fawkes2hell]

I don't care whether this is metal or not its amazing, gotta track down some of their albums!

[MattHatter]

And goopwer, have you heard the CD I recommended in my other comment?  Don't say these guys weren't a metal band. They happen to hold the distinct honor of being the first known band to have the words "heavy metal" appear in a review for their debut album! No joke! The review was from Creem magazine (ever heard of it...no?) in 1971 and it said, "This band seems to have every heavy metal trick in the book down pat."

[randomaxofviolence]

Lets not forget Atomic Rooster "Death walks behind you" was as heavy as anything out at the time. Uriah Heep always gets over looked as well "Bird of Prey & Gypsy" were heavy as hell for 70.Sorry to say Sabbath didnt "create " heavy metal,many bands were working on the blue print.they just became the breakthrough

band.Just like Metallica& Slayer, dozens of bands were working on the blueprint for speed/thrash metal

they just got lucky.

[MattHatter]

Ok, I see a trend here with Sabbath fans that dosen't seem to exist with fans of Zeppelin. Sabbath fans, for some reason, will go to their death proclaiming they were the first metal band. You know things evolve from one to the other. In a sense Zeppelin AND Sabbath were both the first, Zeppelin started it and Sabbath added to it. Both sound different.

[zephed69]

pretty good

[joewolf55]

i seen sir lord at the filmore east with black sabbath in 1970 their first concert they blew sabbath off the stage ozzie was only 19 only a few know of sir lord baltimore

[DaHool2]

First time I hear of this band, good stuff!

[mellotrongirl]

Mercury Records had some cool bands around about that same time--Organ Grinders, Buddy Miles Electric Church, Ancient Grease, Jack Ttanna's Genesis...etc.

[Geistclan]

Yeah the drummer did the vocals live. They were kicked off the stage during a show at The Whiskey because he always had a hard time keeping time on the drums between his playing like a nut and hitting the highs on vocals. He was an awesome drummer and singer in my oppinion and being a drummer myself I can see how he'd have a problem keeping in time doing all those fast fills while singing.

[Evoken13]

Forever a Helium Head.....

[progrockman]

THis tune is awesome!!!! It's time they got their due, know what I'm saying out there?

[MattHatter]

I'm with ya progrockman! I came to these guys in late 2005 at 28. I'm so glad I listened to those samples on Amazon! "Hard Rain Fallin," "Hellium Head," "Woman Tamer," some of the heaviest stuff I've ever heard from '70/'71. Rips my head off every time I put the CD on! Ya dig?

[RobGasoline]

Sir Lord Baltimore! One of the Heaviest HeavyRock Bands from 70's!

[robrush54]

Finally!!! Louis Dambra rocks!!! I've had this since 1970. Please does anyone have video? These guys were so far ahead of their time!!

[stanleytone1]

i was in high school when this album came out,and even then only a handful of us had even heard of these guys.

man what memories this brings back. put on "master heartache"!

[sirlordwhitman]

I have 'Master Heartache' playing on my Dodge Polara video..

Check 'er out! Too bad these guys signed up with a bunch of money grubbin' pricks. They needed a manager like Zeppelin's manager..

Then, they woulda had a whole string of albums throughout the 70s..

[WhizzBangAlmighty]

Zeppelin sucks dude. And Sabath????????? T.Rex blows 'em away.

[sirlordwhitman]

ummm.. anything blows away T.REX

[SirLordHockey]

I can die in peace now, I have seen the LORD on youtube,they were so far ahead of their time,they get me so PUMPED UP,you know they give me fever

[goguen]

i just wish there was a real video from the 70's i could watvh fom these guys, but thanks for this.

[fugginshit]

NO ONE....NO ONE...NO ONE rocks harder than zeppelin or sabbath...NO ONE

[MattHatter]

Oh wow...I see that four months ago you made a reply to my comment and I didn't even know it was here. OH ZEPPELIN AND SABBATH ROCK...no need to comment on that one but you've got to hear BOTH albums from these guys! You've gotta own some SLB along side the other "heavies" of the era...please do yourself the favor and you won't regret it!

[hazard1961]

I want more! Brilliant

[tippyteen]

WILD AND FLIPPED OUT LOVE IT !!!!

[angelcoon]

Great PLEASE send more!

[deartube]

back to a time , perfection !

[MattHatter]

Took a chance on these guys completely on a whim! They instantly became my favorite early metal band! Rocks harder than Zeppelin and Sabbath I say!

[rockolga]

Cool Colage , heard they gonna reunite on Sweden Rockfestival this summer // Mr.John Garner behinde It !!

[jgarnerslb]

That would be 2008----BE THERE!!!!

[SUPERPCC]

they regrouping for a come back tour?