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Formed late 1968 in Bonn, West Germany, Hairy Chapter intended to create a kind of white blues, playing own material with a permanent rock feeling, influenced by John Mayall, Cream and Jimi Hendrix but spiced up with its own ingredients. According to the band not only the Bonn music scene was enthusiastic about the band, but also a certain young Dieter Dierks was impressed and offered the band to record their first album in his new little studio, a former pigsty in Cologne-Stommeln, a rural setting north of Cologne, Germany. Their first album \u2018Eyes\u2019 was released in 1969. The band started recording the follow-up album \u2018Can\u2019t Get Through\u2019 in November 1970 with a release in 1971 on German label Bacillus. The recordings were again made in the (meanwhile refined and improved) studio of Dieter Dierks, who acted as sound engineer and producer.<\/p>\n
\u2018Can\u2019t Get Through\u2019 starts with an intro that\u2019s like a cross between Yes and Sabbath. After a couple of hard rockin\u2019 verses, we\u2019re into a smoldering groove for a harmonica solo followed by Harry Titlbach\u2019s guitar workout over Rudolf Oldenburg\u2019s Jack Bruce-infused bass playing. Then suddenly a wacky slide guitar interlude comes out of nowhere, leading to a Led Zeppelin-ish riff that devolves into a slowly dissolving swing feel topped with dazed and confused guitar freakouts, Titlbach suffering from a momentary loss of sanity until finally it all crashes back to Earth with the Zep riff again. Like I said, not conventional songwriting. \u2018It Must Be An Officer\u2019s Daughter\u2019 continues on the road to the mountains of electrified post-blues madness with 8 more minutes of erratic groove changes, demented stalker lyrics like \u201cI want to hold your luscious breasts in my hand\u201d sung over a dark Sabbath-like riff, and a heaping helping of on-the-edge guitar solos over wicked drum\/bass vamps. The only song that doesn\u2019t rock pretty hard is \u2018As We Crosssed Over.\u2019 For this one we\u2019ve got acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, mariachi trumpet (yes you read that right) off in the distance and haunting, trippy choir vocals swirling around in the background. It sounds almost like Radiohead in an odd way. Strange, melancholy little tune here. The album closes with \u2018You\u2019ve Got To Follow This Masquerade.\u2019 Evil Sabbath riffs alternated with straighter Zeppelin and proggy sections that just come to an abrupt halt after 4 minutes. The album comes in an exact reproduction of the original Bacillus cover but added a 4-sided cover sized insert sheet with story and many photos. Newly remastered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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