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JPT Scare Band - Sleeping Sickness (1973)

Track Listing

1.Sleeping Sickness

2.Slow Sick Shuffle

3.King Rat

4.It's Too Late

5.Acid Acetate Excursion

6.I've Been Waiting

7.Time to Cry

The name JPT is based around the first letters of the members' first names: Jeff Llntrell (drummer), Paul Grigsby (bass, vocals) and Tony Swope (vocals/guitar).

If the band had signed a record contract back in the early 70s, there is no doubt they would be up there with Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and Black Sabbath for guitar overload damage. Unfortunately, these recordings never really made it out of the inner circles of hard psych heads. Of course, Sleeping Sickness is not a copy of those bands or their styles, but the main focus here is on very long (often 10 minutes plus) jams that concentrate on the guitar playing of Terry Swope.

Swope takes a riff and destroys it over and over, until you are not sure what came before. A perfect example of this is the Hendrix-y opener and title song, "Sleeping Sickness". After a funky opening, a tight riff starts to dominate the song. Following the verse-chorus, Swope takes flight with about 10 minutes of pure guitar damage. Solos twine in and out of each other, with excellent use of feedback and fuzz pedals, while drummer Jeff Littrell and bassist Paul Grigsby seem almost telepathic and tapped into wherever Swope is taking his guitar.

Perhaps what makes "Sleeping Sickness" stand out more than anything is that it does not sound dated at all. I am sure there were bands all over America at that time, gathering in basements and playing for hours and hours under a variety of conditions. The JPT Scare Band recorded most of this stuff in the basement of their party house in Kansas City. While it dates from the early 70s, Sleeping Sickness definitely has a "'60s" feel about it, in terms of the freedom of the players and how well they play together, as opposed to the bass and drums sitting back while the guitar player gets all the glory. Of course, the guitar is the star of this show, but it would not be anywhere near as entertaining if the other musicians did not keep their collective feet on the ground.

While the sonic fidelity on this is not exactly up to Pink Floyd standards, that is not what you are getting this for anyway. This is a classic snapshot into the basement of a true American Rock Band doing what it does best. It is easy to imagine all their friends freaking freely to their brand of tripped-out, space-vibe rock.

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