{"id":713,"date":"2007-11-02T21:10:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T03:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/11\/02\/stalk-forrest-groups-st-cecilia\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T21:10:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T03:10:24","slug":"stalk-forrest-groups-st-cecilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/11\/02\/stalk-forrest-groups-st-cecilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalk Forrest Group&#8217;s &#8220;St. Cecilia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/wp-content\/photos\/stalk_forest_group_cover.JPG\" title=\"stalk forest group cover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/wp-content\/photos\/stalk_forest_group_cover.JPG\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"stalk forest group cover\" width=\"204\" height=\"196\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finally got around to ordering the Rhino Handmade Records release of the thirty-something year old recordings of the Stalk Forrest Group. Most of the folks involved went on to become well-known as Blue Oyster Cult. These recordings, though, were done while they were signed to Elektra Records, and for unknown reasons Elektra declined to release this album at the time of production. I&#8217;m still on my first pass through the material, but I&#8217;m liking a number of the tracks. <\/p>\n<p>There are two releases of this material, and of the two, the Rhino Handmade Records one offers, it appears, two versions of most of the songs plus the mono versions of &#8220;What is Quicksand?&#8221; and &#8220;Arthur Comics&#8221; that were released at the time as a promotional 45RPM single. <\/p>\n<p>As I have been writing this post, most of it has been done during a hypnotic guitar break in &#8220;A Fact About Sneakers&#8221;. Pretty cool, and just about worth the expense all on its own.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t, though, simply early BOC-like stuff, despite the inclusion of &#8220;I&#8217;m on the Lamb, But I Ain&#8217;t No Sheep&#8221;, versions of which appeared on the first two BOC studio albums and innumerable live albums and make-a-buck &#8220;greatest hits&#8221; albums. It&#8217;s still a progressive rock sound for the early seventies, but not the flat-out heavy metal that they would later achieve an, ahem, cult following with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to ordering the Rhino Handmade Records release of the thirty-something year old recordings of the Stalk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}