Kind of grungy, kind of punky. Sometimes the singer sounds a little Ian MacKaye, a little Rollins. The overall sound ranges from Dinosaur to Danzig. This came out of a big pile of tapes that I pulled off the side of the road in ROWVILLE of all places. There was a lot of local material dubbed onto various cassettes that I'll be putting up, as well as episodes of Rage taped onto VHS, all kinds of stuff.
Ostensibly a demo tape, it's roughly recorded.
As the liner notes (included in the .zip) state:
"BLIND MESIAH evolved in late 1991 from ex-members of The Aphids, Legend Killers and Ursula's Dream. We have since strived to create an intense, dynamic and original guitar rock sound. This is the first installment in our quest for sonic fulfillment.
Recorded: May 1992 Australian Audio College, Preston
Engineer: Matthew Barker
Alex: Vocals Dave: Guitar
Elliot: Bass George: Drums
Marcus: Guitar/Backing Vocals
Management: Simon Howard (03) 561 1275
All songs by Blind Mesiah"
I couldn't any ready reference to Blind Mesiah on the net, nor The Aphids or Ursula's Dream, so there you go, the obscure of the obscure. Can one of you readers please enlighten us in the comments?
I did pick up a handful of references to Legend Killers - their guitarist was Paul Waste, a 3PBS announcer, which may explain this reference in Phil MacDougall's bio. There's even a song of theirs on YouTube:
This was ripped using the same setup I used for the Popsicle 2 tape. I have applied a bit of EQ as the left channel has overloading the interface below about 150 Hz. Otherwise, the recording has not been processed.
Beware, there is a bit of Zeppelin worship.
Side A
1. Amelia 4:40
2. Little Man 4:21
Side B
3. Any Life 3:02
4. Cry From Crawl'n 3:27
5. The Deep Low 4:03
Crawling Low (1992) - Blind Mesiah
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