Hard Attack (Dig)

Product Description

The hard got harder and the heavy got heavier on Dust's 1972 LP, a sought-after prize among collectors of American metal. Singer/guitarist Richie Wise and band manager/lyricist Kenny Kerner would produce Kiss' first two albums two years later, and you can hear early echoes of that here; includes Pull Away/So Many Times; Ivory; How Many Horses , and more!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132883 in Music
• Published on: 2008
• Released on: 2008-10-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .19" h x 5.28" w x 5.26" l, .12 pounds

Features

• Record Label: Repertoire
• Country Of Release: EU
• Year Of Release: 2008
• Notes: Digipak

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Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
An Unrecognized hard Rock Classic
By Fred Rayworth
Why is it that all the bands I like are so obscure? I always get pissed off when I look at one of those "History of Rock" books and it is filled with all the bands that suck! Dust is not mentioned in any of them. They came out in the early seventies and this, their second album, just blew me away. This was real hard rock (to coin a term I'm not really comfortable with). As musicians, my wife and I covered Pull Away and everyone used to think we wrote it and we played Suicide to the same response. I like this album a lot more than the first one which is also good, but it (the first one) sounds dryer. I heard this album for the first time along with Three Man Army's Mahesha and I always think of them together even though their styles are quite different. I saw the other review that mentioned they worked on a third album that was never released and I just wonder what it would have sounded like. This album is rock at its finest and is the way rock should have turned out. A gr eat album that still holds up today.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Stand in the rain with your electric guitar!
By Shades Below
This album is in sharp contrast to the first album. The first is very well-produced, with plenty of effects to be heard. This one has a very raw, dry, live-in-the-studio sound to it, which is great. The first couple of songs are acoustic guitar-driven, and you can defnitely hear a "Who's Next" influence to them. "Thusly Spoken" may not seem to fit on the first listen, as it's a slow ballad with keyboards and strings, but it'll grow on you. The rest of them pick up where the first album left off, though there are a couple of songs that almost go into country/western territory. "Ivory" is an amazing instrumental, played in a hard and fast 10/8 time signature. "Suicide" closes the album with some hard drumming and loud bass soloing. Too bad they didn't continue after this; Marky was pretty young at the time (16!), and was told to keep in school, so they couldn't tour the album properly, and so the album didn't do as well as it should have. Apparently, they were working on a third before they split, and it would be fascinating to hear what they might have unleashed!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Best Album Ever
By rob kiloy
This is my favorite album ever. It is VERY underground heavy metal from the mid 1970s. It sounds a bit like Led Zeppelin at times, with the heavy drums and all. But I don't under stand why this band never got the attention of their peers. Whatever, this is a heavy metal classic.