"Wild choices. That must have been some misspent youth. Never heard those groups before."
Hehehehe! Yeah, my best friend's older brother worked at a record store and had an amazing record collection. My best friend and I would spend hours on end listening to his brother's record collection while shooting pool and playing air hockey in his basement.
Yup, I may have been young, but I knew the early '70s psychedelic, funk, and blues-rock scene backwards and forwards. I can still remember the artwork on just about every album cover. My memory may have faded over the years, but if you show me the album artwork, I can still name the band, almost instantly.
The Jericho Jones album was a plain, almost paper bag colored album with a simple drawing of a hand coming out of the rubble. It was the left hand and it had a crooked index finger. As I got older and learned about Communism, I subconsciously latched onto that drawing as representational of Leftist ideology...
Anyway, I later learned that Jericho Jones was an Israeli band that used to be called "The Churchill's." So, I don't think they were actually going for a Communist theme with that album cover.
...Just checked on YouTube. Amazingly enough, someone has actually posted a song from when Jericho was known as The Churchill's (Do a search for " הצ'רצ'ילים ")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5pfyx0NZCA
Until tonight, I hadn't heard that song, but it certainly encompasses the era! Amazing what you can discover on YouTube.
Cheers!
I should have guessed. Record store employees are usually hippest when it comes to offbeat, offshoot bands. Why do you think you hear such weird music whenever you step into a (Independent!) record store?!
