Review
The Sons of Adam
Saturday’s Sons-The Complete Recordings 1964-1966

High Moon Records (2022) Christopher D

The Sons of Adam – Saturday’s Sons-The Complete Recordings 1964-1966 cover artwork
The Sons of Adam – Saturday’s Sons-The Complete Recordings 1964-1966 — High Moon Records, 2022

If ever a band from the mid-’60s was underappreciated I would have to surmise that The Sons of Adam might top that list. The band comprised of Randy Holden of Blue Cheer and The Other Half, Jack Ttanna of Genesis, bassist Mike Port and drummer Michael Stuart Ware of Love!

High Noon Records have compiled The Sons of Adam’s complete studio output comprising of demos, killer live material and outtakes. The release starts off with a boil-busting live set from the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco -1966. I could only imagine that The Sons of Adam would systematically destroy headlining bands making it no easy feat to follow up with their blistering sets. The live set is in fact so delicious that it could easily feed the discerning palette of any music curio trench-digging middle-aged balding pioneer of dusty forgotten milk crate saviors.

Offering up a tasty aperitif, hors d’oeuvre, main course, and dessert all rolled up into one large dried banana peel ready to puff on and drift away to a deserted island in your smoke-filled mind.

1960s snotty garage punk, hot as a penny heated on a wood stove rhythm and blues and pure unadulterated, unpasteurized rock and roll, in turn, manifested with well-crafted output and a high level of musicianship. Hell, even Arthur Lee sling-shotted a song over their way-” Feathered Fish”.

The infamous Alec Palao adds the Red 40 Dyed carcinogen-laced Maraschino Cherry to this sweetly, delectable mountain of ear candy sundae.

To push this compilation into undiscovered stratospheres included is the Pre Sons of Adams band fittingly known as The Fender IV coughing up machine gun staccato surf caught in a pipeline on a thruster set up surfboard.

Music cognoscenti discerningly acknowledge The Sons of Adam were the red hot ember that got away however like the coelacanth their recent “rediscovery” only cements the mystical status of former rock royalty and this release will relinquish the scribes to future seers and build upon the creation that they were bequeathed.

The Sons of Adam – Saturday’s Sons-The Complete Recordings 1964-1966 cover artwork
The Sons of Adam – Saturday’s Sons-The Complete Recordings 1964-1966 — High Moon Records, 2022

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