Lucifer's Friend - In The Time of Job When Mammon Was A Yippie

Lucifer's Friend (1970)

Track #7 - In the Time of Job When Mammon Was A Yippie

An eccentric but fun rocker featuring Lawton delivering an odd take on biblical history over a steady hard rock groove from the band.

Peter Hesslein - Lead Guitars/Vocals/Percussion

Peter Hecht - Piano/Keyboards/French Horn on "Ride The Sky."

John Lawton - Lead Vocals

Dieter Horns - Bass

Joachim Rietenbach - Drums

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• Lucifer's
• Friend
• Heavy
• Metal
• Rock
• Roll
• German
• Hard
• Classic
• Underrated
• Band
• LP
• song
• yippie

[hermanhurensohn]

almos no one knows that this band did some outstanding stuff using another name.........

Early Prog Rock under the Name

"The Pink Mice in Action"

It is the hottest shit in my record shelf.

[VodkaDrunkenski]

Thanks for that. I didn't know about The Pink Mice 'till your comment.

[mightyhighrocks]

Gotta pick this up. Thanks for posting.

How do you post audio files on youtube? I have some stuff I want to share.

[VodkaDrunkenski]

You have to make it into a video first then you can upload it. I use Windows Movie Maker.

[josephifer]

Some People Aren't Familiar With This Band!

I Got Into Arguements With Friends About "Lucifers Friend" I Told Them If It Wasn't For These Guys There Wouldn't Be IRON MAIDEN Or All These Early 80's Metal Bands!

& My Friends Are Fans Of The 80's Early Metal Except For The Big Haired Bullshit...

LUCIFERS FRIEND Is A Damn Good Band!!

That's Some Classic Shit...

[santyrush]

I like the photo album, is misterious

[metalvache]

Discazo

[mrtwig80]

@hermanhurensohn Pink Mice is a great orchestral piece of lucifers friend! Sounds alot like beggars opera.. Can also highly recommend both Asterix and both the electric food albums.. great albums, and both are very much the same band as lucifer's!

[stomp919]

@mtzimm Yeah I challenge any band today to come up with a album the same caliber as Deep Purple Machine Head, Black Sabbath Paranoid or even Thin Lizzy Jailbreak. Not that im stuck in the 70s. You know what I mean. I have Astra and Blood Ceremony new cds but they play more like 70s style. I could bring up Candlemass or Fu Manchu but even those are 20-25 years old lol.

[stomp919]

@mtzimm Amen.

[mtzimm]

@stomp919 I agree with you stomp. I find myself seeking out other bands from that era. Can't stand hip-hop, rap-crap etc. 99% of the new stuff played on radio is terrible. I think the difference is these bands toured their asses off and did a new album every year. 1968 - 1977 are my favorite years in rock. A lot of experimenting in the studio. Once the major corporations started promoting these bands, i.e. Frampton, Fleetwood Mac, Journey rock and roll started to SUCK!

[stomp919]

@mtzimm Those are some of the best CDs in my collection. This sound/period will never return. Any bands of today have so many basterdized versions of rock to draw from that it can never sound like these cats. Hard pressed to find musicians the same caliber as Lucifers Friend.

[stomp919]

@MaidenMo23 lol

[notfragile33]

A bible lesson on the old testament--all wrapped up in a four-minute pop song! I think Steve Tyler used the same idea later for Aerosmith's "Adam's Apple"

[MaidenMo23]

@bassistdave109 No, hahaha, it does kinda sound like that. He's saying "free as a beanstalk, coogan flipped for, get down on your kness and love and love the man." very hard to understand, but awesome lyrics.