| Stoned Guitar | ||||
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| Studio album by The Human Instinct | ||||
| Released | 1970 | |||
| Recorded | Stebbing Studios, Auckland | |||
| Genre | Acid rock, psychedelic rock, blues-rock | |||
| Length | 44:55 | |||
| Label | Pye Records | |||
| Producer | Maurice Greer | |||
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Stoned Guitar is the second album by New Zealand blues-rock band The Human Instinct. It was released in 1970. The cover features an adaptation of a painting by New Plymouth artist Michael Smither, "Two Rock Pools".
Two singles were released from the album: "Black Sally" (B-side "Tomorrow") and "Midnight Sun" (backed with a non-album track, Jesse Harper's "Idea", also known as "Keep Cool").
"Black Sally" was a cover of a March 1970 single by Sydney band Mecca, which featured singer/guitarist Dennis Wilson and bassist Bob Daisley, who formed Kahvas Jute in June 1970.[2] "Tomorrow" was a cover of John Kongos' "Tomorrow I'll Go", which later appeared on his Kongos album of 1972.
The original release stated that the album's closing track, a cover of Rory Gallagher's "Railway and Gun", was recorded live at Auckland's Bo-Peep Club, where the band had a residency. However, in the liner notes of the 2011 reissue Maurice Greer finally acknowledged that the track was merely a studio recording with crowd noise overdubbed in order to simulate a "live" recording.
The album was reissued on CD in 2001 by Ascension Records, in 2007 by Rockadrome Records, and again in 2011 by Sunbeam Records.