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1. • Marek
   • Found my old stoner cuttings from the early 90s. I have every single piece of press of advert that ran on Kyuss, Fu Manchu and Sleep up to 1997. Mostly Fu Manchu by far but some amazing Kyuss posters, adverts, interviews and reviews. Sleep is something like 2 reviews, one tiny news piece, a listing for the Cathedral tour and a tiny advert for the same.
     
     The best piece was the 1993 review by Rob Clymo that made me buy Holy Mountain the same day, in the excellent mag METAL CD for those that remember it... 1 and half stars out of 5 and the best bad review I ever read, it read like 5 stars to me:
     
     "THIS is all we need - an album for dopers everywhere. Retro-rockers Sleep sludge their way through this debut offering with the aura of a highly frazzled Black Sabbath, offering nothing remotely new, just the latest slant on attempting to re-work the Sab's exhaustively milked formula.
     
     To their credit, this is certainly an album full of drug-induced atmosphere, and these trippy Americans have it all when it comes to playing Mogatron metal. There's plod riffing everywhere, and a general ambience which suggest that Sleep smoked a good deal of weed while this disc was under construction.
     
     Whilst it's undeniable that songs like 'Dragonaut' and 'The Druid' owe a large debt of gratitude to Black Sabbath, it doesn't stop there. You can imagine their live shows as being something akin to the Grateful Dead, and even within the confines of the album they still manage to wander off mid-song like some failed free-form, Tap-esque experiment. Definitely a case of turn on, tune in and drop off."
   • [10:16 on 15/05/10]
2. • Podge
   • I'd buy it from that
   • [10:52 on 15/05/10]
3. • pull-my-plonker
   • That's a lot of cuttings!
     
     That's a funny review!
   • [19:07 on 15/05/10]
4. • Marek
   • Podge says:

     I'd buy it from that
     
     
     Yeah I went across to Our Price and ordered the cassette the same day!
   • [18:05 on 16/05/10]

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