DAVE GIBSON - Guitars & Vocals PORIDGE BLACKWELL - Bass MELVIS FARGAS - Guitars
PAUL FULLER - Drums
For Booking, promotional material Etc. email badliquorpond@yahoo.com
COMING SUMMER 2009!!!!
"RADIANT TRANSISSION" (CD - 08')
Available @ www.morphiusrecords.com OR www.mt6records.com
"THE YEAR OF THE CLAM" (CD - 07')
Available @ www.mt6records.com
Baltimore City Paper Aug 08':
Maybe it's too early to start calling Bad Liquor Pond way underappreciated--the MT6 outfit birthed its way into the Baltimore rock scene just last year. Still, this month's release, Radiant Transmissions, the guest of honor at tonight's show, is a wonderfully spacey, psych-rock treat (see also: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spacemen 3, and the like) that doesn't fall in line with much of what's considered cool around these parts, and, listening now, its dreamy melodies, hazy-lazy intonations, and, dare say, jamming (lots of wandering, at least) is kind of the shit around the office this week. (Michael Byrne)
"Pain Killer" , The Depot: 3/8/08
REVIEW:
Bad Liquor Pond: Year of the Clam
(MT6 Records, 2007)
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From Aural Innovations 38 (Jan 2008)
Bad Liquor Pond is a wonderful shoegazer/psych rock from Baltimore, Maryland. The band was formed in 2004 and Year of the Clam is their debut CD. They have melted together some classic psych sounds, traditional Americana, the hypnotic, dreamy shoegazer stuff of Spacemen 3 and Dark Side, some spiritual, Indian vibes, lovely acid folk modes and beautiful indie pop melodies, and I must say I enjoy this album very much.
The opener, ”Apparations”, is already a pretty nice, three-minute-long psych pop number with some country music feel in it. ”Molten Angel” reminds me of Dark Side. ”The Panther's Den” is a beautiful ballad with some heavy fuzz guitar. One of the highlights for me is the mystical, dreamy and psychedelic ”The Beginning Meets the End (Verse One)” that includes for example some sitar. Excellent stuff! The acoustic-driven ”Black Clouds Rising (Verse Two)” is another nice, quite mellow track with pretty interesting instrumentation and some hallucinatory speech samples. At some point this brings to mind King Black Acid. ”Honeycomb” is an excellent shoegazer/post rock track with some powerful guitar stuff and buzzing synths. The album's title track is a short and instrumental acoustic psych folk track with sitar and weird effects. ”Autopilot” is a bit wilder and heavier guitar-oriented number that does sound quite a lot like Sun Dial on Reflecter, so I love it! ”Waves of Nightingales (Verse Three)” is an amazing Indian drone with sitar, harmonium, percussion and other ethnic instruments. This will open up your third eye! The drums join in somewhere in the middle for a while. The track cools down and ends with psychedelic effects. I just love this track! ”Emperor” is a bit similar in mood to ”Panther's Den” and ”Black Cloud Rising”, and could almost be a cover of a Green Pajamas song. The album's longest song is ”Hourglass” at 6:55 and it's at first a nice, beautiful psych pop instrumental with acoustic and electric guitar and synthesized string sounds. There are some psych sounds in the middle, and then the track turns into rather heavy post rock blasting. Phew... The end is just weird, experimental sound effects to freak out your mind. This is a very promising debut album by a band who have great pop melodies but who are not afraid to freak-out a bit when needed.
Review By Santtu Laasko
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LOSERS!!! It's amazing and mystifying that not only do you not play my fave tune, but even more that you don't play the one jam that should be included in all your shows.
You guys sounded amazing at Bazzlefest!!! I had a blast and the music was awesome. There should be a show like that every month! I want a CD, can't wait for your next show:-)
How are you, BAD LIQUOR POND? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to say "HI" &hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can hear it right now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo adios! Pablo
A much belated thanks for getting that show together last month. We had a blast and it was cool to finally see you all live. Your album has got some nice peaks too! Let's throw down again sometime soon.
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