01 - No Deposit, No Return Blues (Side A of 1969: Sandy Bull - E Pluribus Unum)

[@hughjass5561]

Bull is the most underrated musician of the 1960s that I've listened too.

[@kubecnighty6020]

Preach.

[@cre8lite11]

Definitely, but everybody in Santa Barbara was listening to him back then including me. He was pretty underground but I think that Vanguard album sold really well

[@duendenally]

Jackson C. Frank, imho

[@johnexter2]

i know this piece by heart!!!

[@faunoram]

wow ! this is amazing ! great advice from Lee Ranaldo

[@markfcoble]

Thanks!

[@TheVikingBlues]

Thank you for sharing 🙌

[@SatanicWalnut2]

Not enough noodling, really easy to enjoy this.

[@will2741]

LOVE the guitar sound - microphone picking up the string sound of the guitar, amp with trem and reverb off in the distance

[@BluesTramp]

Saw him in San Francisco, 60's at Music City on Columbus St. in San Fran...he was sitting on a Fender Re-verb noodling and nodding...

[@Mileagex]

wow!

[@vasdecabeza2]

Tha firts part reminds me the "Straight up and down" Brian Jonestown Massacre song!. However, this song was from 1969!!!

[@MrBuzz13]

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO GET DOWN

[@nickcarlson6984]

Damn this shit is good.

[@natkernell1438]

Those multitracked cross rhythms are out of this world. This must be what China Cat sounds like. A blues buff tells me he picked up the steely tremolo from "Papa" Roebuck Staples.

[@BroadcastsFromPoorFarm]

Yes on all accounts.

[@mikeroberts8520]

Remember sittin’ back with this sound back in Topanga Cny. Good memories 🎶✌️🎶

[@Nikolaj1ManBand]

Excellent!

[@outcast73]

The precise quantity of noodling is within the ear of the beholder, unless the beholder is making pasta.

[@peterward9446]

*_the ultimate musical genius-anon._*

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

He sure loved that tremolo! Is there a one man band situation here, I mean is Sandy playing the drums and at least one of the guitars at the same time...then overdubbing himself on the other instruments. I'd love to know more about this guy, the little Ive heard of his music has sounded great, shambolicly (not sure if I just invented me a word there) wonderful, transcendental even. Living those slinky fuzz lines way down in the background. This reminds me of The Beatles...anyone else hear that? I presume Owen Wilson will be playing him in the film of his life.

[@undergroundjohnny]

Owen Wilson - hahahahaha :)

[@leonardlos3209]

He's playing high hat with a tambourine on top. Electric guitar split into 4 diff amps, bass & oud

[@leonardlos3209]

OH! I forgot the cowbell LOL

[@natkernell1438]

In whatever state of mind he hears a faucet dripping on a bucket upended in the sink . . . that's the cowbell

[@jimmaculate5]

Soulful!

[@francoiscoppejans5150]

that man is freaking out, or call it 'chevere' i can dig it.. -Notice that was long time before the 'Loop' n other effexts machine!? rich and so simple.5 eclectic sounds on Ud he got it well! it is good music it has his pecular sound no infatuation

[@MarineResearch]

Sandy plays all the instruments himself. Turns on a tape and plays his guitar while the background music rolls.

[@55Mizzou]

My dad used to go noodling and caught alot of fish - once a snake nearly caught him.

[@natkernell1438]

Besides electric guitar and bass, I'm hearing a cowbell, hi-hat, oud, tamboura, kazoo like a zoned-out sax, tamboura, sitar (?). He sings a few "ecstatic" notes, barely audible, near the finish. The cowbell sounds intermittently like a faucet dripping on an upturned metal bucket - he's too stoned to get up and move the bucket or turn off the faucet. The shaky feedback is, of course, an homage to Roebuck "Papa" Staples. On the cover he's playing oud; the headphones catch him adding another track; amber shades masking his pinpoint pupils. What music, what an era! The phrase "no deposit no return" takes me back a ways. . .

[@HarryPeterson-vz8bf]

Far-out and solid...!

[@htwhyppe]

Anybody know which album had "Soft Blues"? I used to have it on vinyl, but it disappeared.

[@kasparhauser7341]

What kind of instrument is aiyb dieng?

[@BroadcastsFromPoorFarm]

That’s the name of the drummer.

[@jimmaculate5]

Wait a minute. I don't think this is the original record because I'm hearing some lead guitar work that is not familiar.

[@BroadcastsFromPoorFarm]

I thought the same thing but that’s the power of modern headphones. Hearing so many elements I didn’t pick up over ten years ago.

[@thepuppethead1188]

I have not just an original but a white label promo copy on vinyl and this sounds the same,I think the other fella is right just modern playback equipment or maybe the passage of time in general 'n' whatnot.

[@hisoksila8850]

oh yeah this is the bomb! heard it today on kalx, uc berkeley college radio which is also often the bomb when there's good djs. yeah this is a skippy bad recording

[@goldenlabrecords]

It's not a skippy bad recording. It's the way the record sounds. Dang!

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

I don't hear any skipping...just the way Sandy recorded it.

[@PeregrineTrousers]

El numb bus

[@antoniocarlosdafontoura6211]

Else...

[@antoniocarlosdafontoura6211]

Something elsr

[@riversidepete6128]

Junkie blues

[@AliIKarimi]

too much noodling, really hard to enjoy this.

[@jonnybeck6723]

WTF is noodling??

[@natkernell1438]

Noodling: Aimless riffing. Though this piece is pretty long, seems too focused for noodling. Love at first hearing. @@derkommissar785

[@thepuppethead1188]

I know right!?! Sounds like that indian shit where the one guy just does not stop fiddlin' around on his Sitar,play something conventional goddammit!