Just booked tickets for Clutch's UK Tour in December, anyone one seen them before? A friend introduced me to them a couple of years ago and I liked a couple of tracks, but recently I've had the latest 2 albums on Spotify constantly, I think they are great!
Can anyone recommend any of their earlier stuff? From what I understand they have been around for ages but are ever so slowly gaining in popularity, which makes for a lot of stuff I've never heard of before!
I sort of like the face that they seem like 3 normal blokes you might meet down the pub, part of their charm I suppose.
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They're excellent live- SO tight! Fallon is an excellent front man, he reminds me of an evangelical preacher with his mannerisms.
Be warned, you'll leave wanting an SG and Wah pedal!
I particularly like Beale Street and Robot Hive, Elephant Riders is good too.
There is a live concert on youtube where its pissing with rain and they keep rocking regardless, KOL they ain't haha.
My favourites are:
Earth Rocker
Psychic Warfare
Clutch
Pure Rock Fury
I've got tickets for the Glasgow show, looking forward to it.
Robot Hive/Exodus is mighty too.
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Sorry to be a pedant, but Transnational Speedway League is the first album, the self-titled is the second.
They've never done a bad album, everything's worth checking out!
My favourites are from their slightly more "arty" period, Blast Tyrant through to Strange Cousins from the West. The last two albums, Earth Rocker and Psychic Warfare, are a bit more back-to-basics. They've had good reviews and I get the impression they've probably revitalised the band's career a bit, but I don't like them as much as the mid-period stuff.
Slow Hole to China has some really good stuff on it, even though it's "only" a compilation of rare and previously unreleased tracks.
You'll enjoy the gig, they're great live.
Jean-Paul Gaster is such an incredible drummer.
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I suppose because it was from their brief period on a major label. I'm surprised Columbia haven't let them buy back the master tapes (or whatever happens in these circumstances).
For years I had a saved eBay search for the Japanese version with bonus tracks but it never came up.
think it was £12-15 delivered from usa. Found it on discogs.
I managed to get Elephant Riders on Discogs too, think it cost me about £15-18 from a guy in France... but it was worth it. They are one of the few bands where I've made a conscious effort to try and get hold of the the CDs I don't already have. I really like their style and the way they come across when interviewed is so down to Earth too.
Blast Tyrant is brilliant and the second CD with the acoustic stuff is awesome. Physic Warfare was the album that really got me into them properly (so that's recent) but that made me go back and listen to them again and I just loved all of it.
There are also some side projects, for the Clutch hoarders:
The Bakerton Group, which is basically Clutch playing instrumentals.
Fallon sings in The Company Band, who've released an album and a couple of EPs, all very good.
Sult also has a side band called Deep Swell and Gaster's done a few different things.