FIFTY FOOT HOSE - CAULDRON (Cauldron, Fifty Foot Hose's most famous recorded work, is one of th

FIFTY FOOT HOSE | CAULDRON (Cauldron, Fifty Foot Hose's most famous recorded work, is one of those albums whose influence on others is far greater than the success the band enjoyed at the time. Founded by Cork Marcheschi, the band played continuously around the Bay area of northern California throughout the mid-sixties. Marcheschi, who had developed at taste for R&B and the avant-garde music of composers such as Varese, started out as the bands bass player, but his interest in experimental music prompted him to develop his own musical instrument, similar in function to the hybrid developed by Simeon Cox, and which was the underpinning of the Silver Apples sound. The band played a lot of gigs, but the experimental nature of their music tended to perplex audiences unused to such sounds. However, a four-track demo led to the band signing for the experimental Mercury subsidiary, Limelight Records, and under the eye of producer, Dan Healey, later to work extensively with the Grateful Dead, Cauldron appeared in 1969. As the album didn't fit into any particular mould, it largely went un-noticed at the time, but to the modern listener, this is an album that has stood the test of time particularly as Marcheschi used just about every electronic device known to man, including audio generators, echodette, squeaky box, siren, ring oscillator circuits and two theremins.
Given Cauldron's lack of success, the band disintegrated, although several members were to quickly resurface in the musical Hair. However, by the late seventies and early eighties, interest in the bands singular sound was rekindled, with the likes of Pere Ubu, Throbbing Gristle and Chrome all deriving inspiration from its music. An important and influential album.)

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