Dug Dug's - Debut (1971) + Smog (1973) Mexico City | Psych Rock Double Header | Vinyl Stream

Los Dug Dug's are playing live in Los Angeles on Saturday August 22 at Permanent Records Roadhouse in Cypress Park. 21+, $20, fewer than 100 seats, no opener, two hours. Tomas from Discos Lo Nuestro and I put this one together. It's Vinyl Con weekend so collectors from around the world are in town. Tickets at the link below. Come say hi. Tickets: https://app.opendate.io/e/los-dug-dug-s-august-22-2026-742932 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ 00:00 Intro 10:08 Needle drops on the Debut at 45:34 Needle drops on Smog at Youtube cut off side 2 of Smog :( For today's psychedelic trip this morning I'm spinning both classic Dug Dug's albums back to back - the 1971 self-titled debut and Smog from 1973. Two albums that together tell the whole story of one of the most important bands in Mexican rock history. I have the originals but today I'm playing the reissues - the copies you can actually get your hands on right now. The same pressings that Armando Nava will be selling and signing at the show on August 22. More on that in a minute. The debut is the first Mexican psych album sung entirely in English. Armando and the band came up through Durango, then Tijuana, then Mexico City - absorbing the Beatles, the British Invasion, and early American psychedelia and making something entirely their own. The album got made because the band's failed trip to New York City - promised stardom that never materialized - sent Armando home with something to prove. Then Smog. The band stripped down to a trio, switched to Spanish, and recorded one of the heaviest records to come out of Mexico. The sessions were famously turbulent - after three songs Armando locked himself in his house for fifteen days and rewrote the entire album. Side one opens with traffic sounds and drops into the twelve-minute "Hagamoslo Ahora" suite. It never lets up from there. Full vinyl rips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn Shop: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #DugDugs #MexicanPsych #VinylStream #VinylPiper #MorningStream #HeavyPsych #LatinPsych #ArmandoNava #Smog #VinylCon #PermanentRecords #MexicanRock