The Ripple Effect: The Music Commentary Radio Show  

One of the things I love most about the early period of metal, was the electrifying energy and passion that these bands poured into their craft. Most of these bands were nearly D.I.Y in their ethic, pumping out dark and heavy music that was shunned by radio as if it carried disease. Few fans lined up to greet these bands, yet they kept on coming, one after another; Sir Lord Baltimore, Bang, Hairy Chapter. The list seems to be endless as new bands, like my discovery of Iron Claw, keep popping back into the public consciousness.

And then there's Poobah. During the early '70's, Poobah and their resident madman guitar wizard Jim Gustafson put out three molten platters of guitar-fired, sizzling metal and roll. With guitar solos shooting off the vinyl like lasers bouncing around the Planetarium, Poobah mined their own devastated wasteland of early searing metal. Most of those albums, long out of print, can be found for hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars at collectors stores. A while back, some were re-released by a company that long ago went out of business, leaving those discs about as obscure as the originals. Time passes, and even though Poobah continues to rock out monsterous psychedelic guitar histrionics to this day, those older classics just continue to fade away, deeper and deeper into the recesses of the past.

Then along comes Rockadrome.

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