Dust released their self-titled debut album on Kama Sutra Records in 1971. Their follow-up album, Hard Attack, was released on the same label in 1972. Although the group only recorded two albums, they are highly collectible to anyone interested in early American heavy metal.
The band members and their manager all went on to other projects. Aaronson joined labelmate Stories in 1973 before continuing his career as a session bassist. Wise and Kerner teamed up and produced the third Stories album, Traveling Underground (which included Aaronson on bass and featured the #1 hit Brother Louie). The following year they produced both the self-titled Kiss debut album and their second release, Hotter than Hell. Wise would eventually become the A&R man at Scotti Brothers Records. Bell joined Richard Hell & the Voidoids then moved on to the Ramones as drummer Marky Ramone.
Album Reviews:
Dust is a good album that's difficult to classify. The mix of hard rock and prog is reflected in the individual song ratings: when the band is on, they're excellent; when they're not, the songs are OK at best. Fortunately, they're on more often than not. The first two tracks are excellent, while Love Me Hard and From a Dry Camel are no-brainer Desert Island songs.
Hard Attack features decidely heavy metal cover art by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta that immediately grabs your attention. The cover is somewhat indicative of the music within as some songs have a harder sound than the debut (particularly Pull Away/So Many Times (another no-brainer desert island disc song) and the instrumental Ivory), but the presence of the pop-styled songs probably hinted at the direction Wise and Kerner would later take their career.
If you like early 70s hard rock and proto-metal, get these albums and combine them into a single CD containing these tracks:
Hard Attack features decidely heavy metal cover art by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta that immediately grabs your attention. The cover is somewhat indicative of the music within as some songs have a harder sound than the debut (particularly Pull Away/So Many Times (another no-brainer desert island disc song) and the instrumental Ivory), but the presence of the pop-styled songs probably hinted at the direction Wise and Kerner would later take their career.
If you like early 70s hard rock and proto-metal, get these albums and combine them into a single CD containing these tracks:
1. Stone Woman (4:03)
2. Chasin' Ladies (3:39)
3. Love Me Hard (5:30)
4. From a Dry Camel (9:52)
5. Pull Away - So Many Times (5:02)
6. Walk In the Soft Rain (4:25)
6. Walk In the Soft Rain (4:25)
7. Learning to Die (6:26)
8. All In All (4:06)
9. Ivory (2:42)
10. Suicide (4:40)
Overall and individual song ratings:
Dust (76.35)
1. Stone Woman - 4
2. Chasin' Ladies - 4
3. Goin' Easy - 1
4. Love Me Hard - 6
5. From a Dry Camel - 6
6. Often Shadows Felt - 2
7. Loose Goose - 2
Hard Attack (72.52)
1. Pull Away/So Many Times - 6
2. Walk In the Soft Rain - 3
3. Thusly Spoken - 2
4. Learning to Die - 4
5. All In All - 3
6. I Been Thinkin´ - 1
7. Ivory - 5
8. How Many Horses - 1
9. Suicide - 4
10. Entranco - 2
Ratings Key:
0 - Hate It
1 - Dislike It
2 - It's Ok
3 - Like It
4 - Like It A Lot
5 - Love It
6 - Desert Island Song
Overall and individual song ratings:
Dust (76.35)
1. Stone Woman - 4
2. Chasin' Ladies - 4
3. Goin' Easy - 1
4. Love Me Hard - 6
5. From a Dry Camel - 6
6. Often Shadows Felt - 2
7. Loose Goose - 2
Hard Attack (72.52)
1. Pull Away/So Many Times - 6
2. Walk In the Soft Rain - 3
3. Thusly Spoken - 2
4. Learning to Die - 4
5. All In All - 3
6. I Been Thinkin´ - 1
7. Ivory - 5
8. How Many Horses - 1
9. Suicide - 4
10. Entranco - 2
Ratings Key:
0 - Hate It
1 - Dislike It
2 - It's Ok
3 - Like It
4 - Like It A Lot
5 - Love It
6 - Desert Island Song
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