Thursday, August 12, 2010

Guitar Army


Again, a piece by one of greatest white punk/soul bands ever from Detroit/Ann Arbor, The Rationals. This was on their first album from 1968, 
a truly lost masterpiece.
I just saw that a 2 cd compilation of The Rationals was recently released and for some inexplicable reason, this song, Guitar Army was not on it!
A great piece of high energy music that actually was somehow a political manifesto for the White Panther Party in Ann Arbor. Politics you can dance to,
that can't be bad!

2 comments:

darkblack said...

Guitar Army got licensed for the Motor City's Burnin' compilation on Alive Records in '98. Lots of seminal D-town groups on that - They even had Sonic's Rendezvous Band doing Electrophonic Tonic - one of the greatest psych intros of the '70's, IMO.

;>)

microdot said...

I love the Rationals, even though Scott Morgan hustled my date at the Checkmate Lounge when I was a pimply 16 year old kid. He wasn't much older, but he was, well, Scott Morgan.

I just got a hold of Dodge and Main...Wayne Kramer, Dennis Tek, Scott Morgan kind of tribute to the Rendevouz band...great stuff.