Mount Rushmore – Toe Jam
Mount Rushmore – 10:09 Blues
Mount Rushmore – King Of Earrings
Meant to actually fully post this one ages ago. I’d mentioned it in a guest post I did for David Ma’s fantastic Nerdtorious blog, in addition to a couple of other choice cuts (all of which I need to hurry up and add here). Here’s what I said about it there:
“Recently ran into this at the Pasadena Flea Market/Record Swap. Having heard the Handsome Boy Modeling School’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll (Could Never Hip-Hop Like This)” I knew that “Toe Jam,” from the band’s second LP, had served as the primary sample. Mount Rushmore were more of a blues-oriented Frisco band and fans of that sound would dig most of the other cuts on the album. For me it all comes back to those drums and the fuzzy guitar and bass. It’s a super heavy sound, almost Black Sabbath heavy once the unsampled melody kicks in. The first three minutes are so good I don’t even hold it against them for speeding things up and losing the funk for the last half of the song.”
Don’t really have much else to add, except I got this one at the PCC meet close to closing time, when deals are to be made. I’d been on the lookout for it for a while and was hoping to run into it there but never saw it…until I was about to leave and was returning to a dealers spot and noticed this record in addition to a couple of others on another dealers crates. I asked what was up with it and he mentioned that some guy had put them on hold but he never came back. The price was more than fair ($10 or $12) and just like that I’d gotten exactly what I was looking for. I knew “Toe Jam” was “the Jam,” but I was more than pleased with the mix of bluesy San Francisco rock sounds from the band. I know the band released another record but I haven’t heard it. I doubt there’s anything as hard as “Toe Jam” on there, but then again, what is as hard as that? Perhaps I’ll run into that one at clsoing time at the swap, but surely lightning couldn’t strike twice, could it?
Cheers,
Michael