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Saturday Song to Get Stoned To

SATURDAY SONGS TO POKE SMOT TO: THREEFER OF EARLY CLUTCH

 Saturday, April 11th, 2009 at 3:46pm by

clutchbandMe and my advanced reptilian brain (ahem, rather: ‘my advanced reptilian brain and I’) were never the biggest fans of stoner rock mainstays Clutch, but they sure did make it hard to hate on their simple n stony hardcore-flavored early jamz from the beginning of the gay 90s.

These daze the spirited Maryland band is still goin, allbeit in a much blusier thump-rock fashion — currently on the road in Europe and soon back in the States, whilst gearin up to release yet another album this July entitled Strange Cousins From The West. Congrats on th’longevity!

Now pass the ten-footer this way, k?

clutchCLUTCH – “Big News I”, from Clutch (1995)

CLUTCH – “Spacegrass”, from Clutch (1995)

CLUTCH – “Binge and Purge”, from Transnational Speedway League (1993)

“Come on motherfucker, come on motherfucker, come on motherfucker — LET’S THROW DOWN….just try me, just try me — what are you waiting for?!?”

TRIVIA FACTOID: drummer Jean-Paul Gaster played drums on Wino‘s recent solo album Punctuated Equilibrium, and has also worked with Opeth keyboardist Per Wiberg on a side project that will hopefully see daylight soon. with the other Clutch dudes too (minus vocals) called The Bakerton Group, which we’ve actually discussed before. Duh.

Clutch (and JP Gaster w/Wino) tour dates after the jump the jump.

-KW

Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Apr 16 2009 8:00P
JP Gaster w/WINO @ Red Rooster Berlin
Apr 17 2009 8:00P
JP Gaster with WINO @ Beatpol Dresden
Apr 18 2009 8:00P
JP Gaster with WINO @ Doom Shall Rise Festival Goeppingen
Apr 19 2009 8:00P
JP Gaster with WINO @ KUNSTVEREIN Nuernberg
Apr 20 2009 8:00P
JP Gaster with WINO @ 007 Prague
Apr 21 2009 8:00P
JP Gaster with WINO @ Rockstation Halle
Apr 22 2009 8:00P
JP Gaster with WINO @ Mahkina Bergen
Apr 23 2009 8:00P
JP Gaster with WINO @ HAFENKLANG Hamburg
Apr 26 2009 8:00P
JP Gaster with WINO @ Roadburn Festival Tilburg
May 6 2009 7:00P
Lost Horizon Syracuse, New York
May 7 2009 7:00P
The Cellar Struthers, Ohio
May 8 2009 7:00P
Headliner’s Toledo, Ohio
May 9 2009 7:00P
Otto’s Nightclub DeKalb, Illinois
May 10 2009 7:00P
Riverside Ballroom Green Bay, Wisconsin
May 12 2009 3:00P
Canaries Stadium KRRO Fest with Slipknot and Korn Sioux Falls, South Dakota
May 13 2009 7:00P
People’s Court Des Moines, Iowa
May 14 2009 7:00P
The Cotillion Wichita, Kansas
May 15 2009 7:00P
The Blue Note Columbia, Missouri
May 16 2009 7:00P
Jake’s Nightclub Bloomington, Indiana
May 17 2009 4:00P
Columbus Crew Stadium “Rock on the Range” Festival Columbus, Ohio
May 19 2009 7:00P
The Music Farm Charleston, South Carolina
May 20 2009 7:00P
Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, North Carolina
May 21 2009 7:00P
The Norva Norfolk, Virginia
May 22 2009 7:00P
The Note West Chester, Pennsylvania
May 23 2009 7:00P
The Bakerton Group @ 930 Club Washington, DC, Washington DC
Jun 14 2009 10:00A
Download Festival Donington

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  • shogunmarcus

    if you are referring to the instrumental side project called Bakerton Group, featuring all the Clutch dudes, plus Wiberg, the new record is out now on Weathermaker Music. it’s called “El Rojo”… if there is another side project, that would be cool too.

  • groverXIII

    JP and Per Wiberg recorded a jam album with some other folks as King Hobo… good stuff. I highly recommend it.

    I loves me some Clutch… and they actually manage to keep getting better with every release.

  • Phil

    Clutch-Clutch is a stone cold classic!

  • ceth

    Binge and Purge is probably one of the awesomest songs ever recorded. I love that tune!

  • bombs away

    really nice shit to just lay back to. early clutch is just pure classic

  • http://www.kingdomofnoise.blogspot.com MetalMatt

    Strange Cousins from the West = album of the year.
    and I haven’t heard a single note.

    My next tat is gonna be the Elephant Riders shield.

    CLUTCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • groverXIII

    “Strange Cousins from the West = album of the year.
    and I haven’t heard a single note.”

    I’m seconding this.

  • You Don’t Know Me

    Clutch is awesome. One of my favorite bands.

    btw, drugs and pot and such ain’t my thing but if you’re going to do a story about Clutch songs to get high to, why wouldn’t you include “The Mod Goes Wild”? Hell, half of the second verse is about smoking pot:

    “Everybody move to Canada, smoke lots of pot. Everybody move to Canada, here’s how we do it: Bum rush the border guard before he and his dog ever knew it.”

  • Dan Wolfson

    I LOVE CLUTCH SO MUCH

  • RobotScythe

    Fuckin’ love Clutch.

  • Leo

    I have fond memories of literally sitting in my best friends garage, smoking as much weed as we could pool our money together and afford, listening to “Binge and Purge” and hatching plans to attack the frat boys at the local hangs. Great times.

  • Demogorgon

    There are a lot of negative comments on the other articles, but here everyone is saying how much they like Clutch, thats because CLUTCH ARE FUCKING AWESOME. You guys should do more articles on good bands.

  • http://www.myspace.com/bminekime enemyofgod72

    Clutch fuckin Rock!!! Nice song selection but not the best Clutch songs to get poke smot to. I’d have to go wth “Escape From the Prison Planet”, “Tight Like That” and “The Elephant Riders” but then who am I kidding I’ve been stoned to all of ‘em.

  • Ann

    the emperor’s in the pigsty
    the geisha’s in the shack
    and you better believe that i’ll hold em there
    till the feds they pay me back

    god i love clutch
    nice the see them get some good press