Dust - Hard Attack (1972 New York) | Heavy Psych / Hard Rock | Full Vinyl Rip

Hard Attack was released in May 1972 on Kama Sutra Records (KSBS-2059), a gatefold LP recorded and mixed at Bell Sound Studios in New York. This copy is a repress - the matrix reads KSBS-2059A-2, pressed by Sonic Recording Products. The original first press shares the same catalog number; the repress is the more common find. Cover painting is by Frank Frazetta. Inside photography by Bob Gruen. Dust was a New York power trio - Richie Wise on guitar and lead vocals, Kenny Aaronson on bass, slide guitar, and pedal steel, and Marc Bell on drums. This was their second and final album; their self-titled debut had come out the previous year on the same label. Produced by Kenny Kerner and Richie Wise - the same production team that would go on to work with KISS on their first two albums. Marc Bell later became Marky Ramone. Kenny Aaronson went on to a long session career, playing with everyone from Bob Dylan to Billy Joel. The band broke up shortly after this record came out and went largely unnoticed at the time. Hard Attack is a less consistent record than the debut - it mixes heavy, riff-driven hard rock with softer ballads and country-tinged detours that sit uneasily alongside the heavier material. Side A runs strong all the way through: "Pull Away / So Many Times" opens with real weight, "Learning to Die" is the longest track and earns it, and the sequencing holds up. Side B breaks apart a bit - "I Been Thinkin'" and "How Many Horses" are filler, but "Suicide" closes the record hard and is one of the best things Dust recorded. The Frazetta cover has probably kept this one in circulation longer than the music alone would have. Collectors come for the cover, stay for side A and the closer. 🎧 This is a full vinyl rip from my personal copy - the 1972 Kama Sutra repress, KSBS-2059, Sonic Recording Products. 🔥 Standout tracks include "Pull Away / So Many Times," "Learning to Die," "Suicide," and "Ivory." 🎸 Sounds like: Sir Lord Baltimore Mountain Blue Cheer Budgie Ursa Major 🎧 Vinyl Finds Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9oSXuMGglp1N8SlbZUEtCJ7 🎧 Full Vinyl Rips Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ I sell my doubles and extras here: https://vinylpipershop.com/ 💿 Tracklist 00:00 Pull Away / So Many Times 05:03 Walk in the Soft Rain 09:30 Thusly Spoken 13:58 Learning to Die 20:29 All in All 24:35 I Been Thinkin' 26:49 Ivory 29:33 How Many Horses 35:02 Suicide 38:43 Entrance #Dust #HeavyPsych #HardRock #VinylRip #ProtoMetal #VinylCommunity #VinylPiper