[Original Soundtrack]
(UNI Lp)
1.Indian Child (performed by Dewey Martin And Medicine Ball)
2.Changes (performed by East-West Pipeline)
3.Kern County Line (performed by East-West Pipeline)
4.You Could Be (performed by East-West Pipeline)
5.Nancy's Theme (performed by East-West Pipeline)
6.Man Who Kills Ants (performed by East-West Pipeline)
7.Questions (performed by East-West Pipeline)
8.Death Is The dancer (performed By Fever Tree)
9.I Want To Take You Higher (performed by Sylvanus)
10.Something's Wrong (performed by East-West Pipeline)
11.Night Of The Lions (performed by Mark Eric)
12.Taking A Bath (performed by East-West Pipeline)
13.Angels Die Hard (performed by East-West Pipeline)
14.Tendency To Be Free (performed by Rabbit MacKay)
The film that spawned this soundtrack LP was a relatively routine biker-exploitation exercise featuring granite-chinned genre regular William Smith,and former Warhol subject Tom Baker.There are several fine fuzz guitar workouts among the six bands here,but much of the self-consciously "modern" material sounds laughable today(and likely was in 1970).Dewey Martin and Medicine Ball kick off the proceedings with the anthemic "Indian Child," a rousing number that doesn't bear heavy scrutiny.Martin had been the drummer for Buffalo Springfield,but his solo career didn't achieve the same heights.His contribution here proves he had a blustery,commanding rock voice,though the song's frequent refrain of "Get hi-i-igh!" doesn't suggest he had much to offer other than a misunderstanding of Native American culture all too common to young,white hippies of the day.Backup band Medicine Ball holds their own,churning along with some buzzing,energetic fretwork that nicely distracts from Martin's histrionics.The remainder of the acts on Angels Die Hard were current up-and-comers whose names are only remembered now by the fiercest of record collectors.Texas psychedelic act Fever Tree offers up their atmospheric yet overwrought "Death Is the Dancer," and chamber-pop/surfer kid Mark Eric contributes the annoying "Night of the Lions."Songwriter Rabbit MacKay has a tough,fist-clenching chorus and little else on "Tendency to Be Free,"and Sylvanus cuts a note-perfect copy of Sly Stone's "I Want to Take You Higher."However,the bulk of the score was laid down by East-West Pipeline,a fairly obscure act from Colorado that performed similar duties a year later for another biker flick called Bury Me an Angel,but is otherwise undocumented.Their nine tracks vary in both tone and quality,but highlights include the heavy sludge riffing of "You Could Be" and "Taking a Bath," and the sweet,yearning psychedelia of "Questions." The Pipeline could turn on the righteous proto-metal when they felt like it,and some of their poppier material works,too,but they're obviously hampered by the needs of the film's producers,as evidenced by the corny,square horns that damage an otherwise fluid guitar-duel instrumental on the title track.As a time capsule of forgotten Altamont-era rock,this out-of-print soundtrack album works fine,and enough raunchy biker vibe is generated to counteract the clumsier stuff.
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