Golden Dragon, by Golden Dragon

Golden Dragon

by Golden Dragon

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a sealed mint record but all remaining copies have a slight shipping defect to the cover = a slight bump to one or two corners, so price reduced.

First-time limited-edition reissue of this mega super-crazy rare US hard rock/metal heavy psych private press LP from 1981. Golden Dragon were a wild Filipino-American quartet from the Bay Area lead by Freddy Mabuhay. The album is filled with heavy blazing psyched out metallic rock, blistering guitar solos loaded with fuzz and wah, heavy riffs and stoned vocals.

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First-time reissue of this mega super-crazy rare US hard rock/metal heavy psych private press LP from 1981. Golden Dragon were a wild Filipino-American quartet from the Bay Area lead by Freddy Mabuhay. The album is filled with heavy blazing psyched out metallic rock, blistering guitar solos loaded with fuzz and wah, heavy riffs and stoned vocals.

Freddy was the bass player in the legendary band Dakila who had a fantastic album out on Epic in 1972. Later in 1978, after playing the Diamond Head Crater Festival in Hawaii, Freddy formed his own group; Golden Dragon.

In 1981 he and his band; consisting of his brother and two musicians from the legendary Bay Area punk band VKTMS, recorded the amazing Golden Dragon album. The album was only pressed in a few copies to be sent out as a demo to secure a record deal. Unfortunately, the deal never happened, and the album stayed unreleased and pretty much unobtainable for all these years.

The short lived, but lethal, Golden Dragon band performed live at the legendary venue Mabuhay Gardens, aka The Fab Mab, in San Francisco. Sadly, Freddy passed away shortly thereafter, and the mighty Golden Dragon’s music stayed obscure growing to mythical status among hard rock and psych rock aficionados.

Now it’s finally time for the world to experience the mighty sound of Golden Dragon!

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released October 15, 2021

The Golden Dragon band featured Freddy Mabuhay on lead guitar, bass, and vocals, Lou Gwerder on drums, Jose Ancheta Jr. on rhythm guitar and Steve Ricablanca on bass guitar.

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Golden Dragon were a wild Filipino-American quartet from the Bay Area lead by Freddy Mabuhay. Freddy had been in the legendary band Dakila. In1978, after playing the Diamond Head Crater Festival in Hawaii, he formed his own group. In 1981 he and his band; consisting of his brother and two musicians from the legendary Bay Area punk band VKTMS, recorded the amazing Golden Dragon album. ... more

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