Album Notes

JPT Scare Band has been blazing psychedelic trails for quite some time now. Over the years and decades they have managed to progress from totally unknown to painfully obscure. The band was featured in an article in the March 2007 issue of Classic Rock Magazine titled, "Lost Pioneers of Heavy Metal" in which they were included in the same exalted company with Iron Butterfly, Bloodrock and Leafhound.

In spite of all that... they are still together, with the original lineup intact. still making meaningful music in the 21st century, this veteran group of jammers is also proud of their vast legacy of classic twisted insanity recorded back in olden analogue times. Here and there, in odd corners of the world, growing numbers of those who love the old school guitar crazy blues rock somehow have become aware of the existence of JPT.

The members of JPT are extremely proud of the fact that their first two albums were released on vinyl. Good luck finding a copy of one, as they were pressed in very limited quantities. Their first CD, Sleeping Sickness, was originally released on Monster Records and featured tracks from the two vinyl albums. Sadly, Monster Records imploded and simply vanished into thin air due to heavy craziness and the suicide of one of the two founding partners. Sleeping Sickness was out of print for many years. Two of the tracks on Past Is Prologue ("Sleeping Sickness" and "Time To Cry") were originially featured on vinyl and on the Sleeping Sickness CD. The band has finally reissued the Sleeping Sickness CD and it is now available at CDBaby.


REVIEWS FOR THE PAST IS PROLOGUE CD:

"The beauty of the JPT Scare Band is their ability to function as a unit in the nebulous field of the free form heavy jam... Terry Swope is a gawdam genius. Definitely in the league with the best in that genre...Hendrix, Duane Allman, Robin Trower and Carlos Santana. The end result is nothing short of mind blowing."
Hellride Music.com (Chris Barnes)

"Listening to this CD, you can't help but wonder why Terry Swope isn't revered with the same kind of awe and worship as Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Alvin Lee, and the rest of the 60's/70's guitar gods. Their music is psychedelic/stoner/bluesrock ecstasy. An outstanding rhythm section, emotive vocals, and a one in a million guitarist make the JPT Scare Band the best new 'old' band of the year."
Tangerine Magazine (Glenn Tillman)

"Take a solid, Cream-based blues outfit, mix in the wildest, most psychedelic moments of Hendrix feedback, throw in loads of distortion and a grocery bag full of LSD and the final result will be something like the proto-metal/psych jamming of the JPT Scare Band.

Near legendary among proto-metal historians, to understand this band and their music you've got to step back. Way back. In fact the title of their CD Past is Prologue gives us a pretty good indication where this bunch of psych-blues/metallers were coming from."
Ripple Effect Blog (Todd Racer)

"If you like it loud, then this is for you. If you like it heavy, this is for you... a crushing power trio sound that modern day stoners are going crazy for."
Zeitgeist E-Zine (Psychedelic Love Commando)

"These guys are seriously into amplification and the result is genuine Hard Rock, 70's style that on occasion veers into Jam Band territory but stays on course the majority of the time, particularly the epic 13:43 'Sleeping Sickness' (1976) that contains dangerously high levels of wah-wah to rival that of Hendrix and Human Instinct and although a long track, never gets boring."
Pooterland.com (England)

"The JPT Scare Band is one of those legendarias bands who had been part of fabulosos years 70, but that only the fans most curious of the style know..."
Stoner Rock Web Zine (Brazil)