Monday, March 09, 2009

ACROSS THE RIVER - N.O. demo (1986)

I think I found something interesting here...this is the Kyuss song "N.O." played 8 years before its official release in "Welcome To Sky Valley"...

ACROSS THE RIVER – “N.O.” (unreleased demo, 1986) Truly, the beginning of everything bearing the Desert Rock toetag. ACROSS THE RIVER were from the high desert, and were Mario Lalli (YAWNING MAN, FATSO JETSON, SORT OF QUARTET, TEN EAST etc.), Scott Reeder (THE OBSESSED, KYUSS, NEBULA etc.) and Alfredo Hernandez (KYUSS, YAWNING MAN, VIC DU MONTE’S PERSONA NON GRATA, etc.). They were young and totally hot n nasty in a bitchen BLACK OAK ARKANSAS meets midperiod BLACK FLAG kind of way. Sadly, they were too early for all them just-post-hardcore kids to fully grok. Plans for a release on SST (working title: Live At County Line) never came to pass...
For now, I have been told that there are like 4 or 5 ATR songs that were recently found on a multitrack... I could get only this one for now, but I will reply with more...
Enjoy my GOMIES...

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16 comments:

Anonymous said...

this is some time-machine kinda-sounding shit... i know i'm missing the obvious re password, tried the usual suspects. help ;)

props from nyc,
ksn

Ron said...

Mathias you realy blew me away,
damned you terrific, the,re are no
words enough to thank you....

Sincerely yours,

Humble Ron

Matias said...

Sorry, my brothers, mediafire protects mp3 file by setting a password by default...it's cool now,I took care of it. no passwords, or anything like it..
Ron, my friend, no need to thanks, man, you earned it.

Anonymous said...

matias, thx for the fix (in more ways than one hehe).

ksn

Anonymous said...

Oh man, this is awesome!!
Matias, keep up the awesome work!

Peace from Sweden

Anonymous said...

This is great.

Big Jack said...

Very cool! Wow...this is a trip!

Ron said...

It still is remarkable that their
"Live At County Line" is such a best kept secret in these days....

I keep searching for this one!

Grtz. Ron

Anonymous said...

Anyone ever noticed in the kyuss - green machine clip there is a "across the river" logo on the back on one of the amplifiers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-7FXzbeA0
1:43 to 1:45.
Dont know why I am sharing this anyway.. haha
Already had this song, on soulseek lots of people have it under a 'release' of yawning man, called across the river. It also includes two versions of catamaran and all the song of pot head. But I doubt it was released that way.

Cheeto said...

LOL, Yeah I had this song for a long time, but it was tagged under Yawning Man. Nice to clear that up. I love you, Matias! Keep rockin' the Gomies!

Anonymous said...

Hey BJ!, New song from Los Natas, check it: http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/02-el-nuevo-orden-de-la-libertad.mp3

Anonymous said...

across the river was actually a four piece, with a dude named mark anderson on second guitar (blond dude to (your) right of mario lalli in first pic). nick oliveri mentioned this in an early qotsa interview (with alfredo hernandez confirming obviously) as he saw them play at his high school. here's hoping the whole thing sees the light of day soon.

The Thing That Should Not Be said...

WHOA! Thanks for this!

Anonymous said...

Love this!Its' a shame they never got to release an album on SST. Grr...Still on the hunt for more of their tracks to see if they've been leaked, alas to no avail.

:(

MG said...

YES!

Thankyou!!!

Anonymous said...

The download link is dead. Could you upload it again? I'm so hot for this shit!