Can't Get Through (1971)
---9/3/07 (excerpt)
Hairy Chapter’s Can’t Get Through, along with Haze, are albums I discovered too early in my record collecting career. I was fortunate to happen on these LPs in the 1980s, but the direct hard rock approach they both took was rather off-putting and I traded to other dealers not long after.---1/20/26
Exactly that. I was still new at this whole buy-any-import-that-looks-cool stage. Summer of 1986 is when I found this album at the Dallas Record Show for around $5, if memory serves. But this just wasn't the sound I was looking for at that time. I liked metal and I liked cosmic Krautrock, but hard rock? Naw, that's too ordinary. That mentality changed somewhere in the 2000s I think, maybe a bit before. Certainly it had by 2007, on that random listen.
So what does Can't Get Through sound like anyway? Would you believe hard rock? Haha, of course it does. The extended guitar solos give it that Krautrock edge. Some Black Sabbath references as well. So it fits comfortably with many groups from Germany during this era like Haze, Blackwater Park, Night Sun, Epitaph, Silberbart, Spermull, Frame, Dschinn, etc... B2 provides the only break, and it's way out there actually. Like The Beatles on a bad trip.
As with Arco Iris' Agitor Lucens V, Can't Get Through has been on my want list for many years. In this case, I really wanted the original though (given my history), not a modern reissue. I managed to do one better than that copy I bought in the 80s, as this is the true first press, and I had originally stumbled onto the '72 pressing. Either one was fine with me, but cool all the same. It was an online purchase, and while not cheap, it was a good deal and accurately graded. Don't be afraid of VG vinyl from Germany, as they often sound much better than they look. And that's certainly the case here.
Ownership: 1971 Bacillus (LP). Gatefold.
1986 (LP first acquired); 9/3/07; 1/20/26 (LP reacquired / review)
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