Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

SKU 05-TDP 54033LP
When I was at the tail end of 8th grade, I had been playing guitar for about a year, I had my first electric guitar (a green Univox) and amplifier (also Univox; I was a company man!) and I was in my first band.
We covered as much of this first Sir Lord Baltimore album, which I had had gotten earlier in 8th grade after hearing it on the radio and my grandmother buying it for me(!) as I could muster and we were dreadful, which was a feature, not a bug.
Sunken pirate ship made of bones and all on the cover, this is totally great, loud, lunkhead metal circa 1970. They truly ARE what every stoner rock band merely aspires to be...

“When it comes to the birth of heavy metal and hard rock, the obvious acts to namecheck are British legends such as Sabbath, Purple and Zeppelin, but delving further back, and across the ocean, Blue Cheer were definitely forging their own brand of heavyosity at the tail end of the 1960s. However, one band of gonzoid proto-metal, stoner rockers who were able to give Blue Cheer a run for their money are the cult power trio, Sir Lord Baltimore. Hailing from Brooklyn in New York, Sir Lord Baltimore were formed in 1968 by drumming lead vocalist John Garner, lead guitarist Louis Dambra, and bassist Gary Justin. The 1971 review in Creem magazine of their debut album has been cited as the first published use of the term “heavy metal” to describe a style of music. Released by Mercury Records in 1970, debut LP “Kingdom Come” underachieved at the heady height of No. 198 in the US Top 200. Co-produced at Electric Lady Studios by the legendary Eddie Kramer, famed for his work with Zeppelin, Hendrix & KISS among many other, every track is a proto-metal classic, from ‘Master Heartache’ and ‘Lady Of Fire’ through to ‘Ain’t Got Hung On You’. Everything about them was overblown; they even played their very first gig at New York’s highly prestigious Carnegie Hall.”
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SLB were an obscure Queens N.Y. band who were the product of a bet between a famous record executive, and a famous manager who claimed he could take the worst fucking band in the world and make them stars because audiences were that stupid and drugged-out. And here they are. I was at that fucking Carnegie Hall show. They bumped Humble Pie for these assholes without telling anyone and it sucked. Truly sucked. And they were signed to Mercury records instead of Atlantic because Ahmet Eretegun wanted no part of it. What a bunch of old assholes they were. [editor's note: I doubt this story is true, but here it is]
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