NEW VINYL !!
It's been a very long time since I've posted, but when you mix a busy schedule with a lazy dispopsition things sometimes get left behind. Besides, I'm not sure that there are a whole lot of you out there reading this. Oh well, never let it be said that I couldn't get behind a lost cause.
So anway, I guess I'll review some of the new vinyl platters that I have procured in these last couple of weeks.
DMZ-RELICS
The tunes on this record were recorded sometime in 1977. DMZ were a important band in the early pantheon of garage revivalists and they soon evolved into the LYRES. The riffs are good as of course, they should be or else, why bother in the first place. The style definatly does harken back to the screaming sixtees kind of punk as well as mixing in some nice Ramones feel to the stuff. They also do some nice 60's covers including the classic 13th Floor Elevators tune "Your Gonna Miss Me".
SCUM OF THE EARTH part 2
This is a collection of various sixtees bands that in some way or another try to live up to the title.
Lots of cool stuff on here. The Bugs doing a song called slide which is a good garage punk stomper. Steve Purdy and the Studs doing "The Weed". No it's not about that weed but rather it's a kind of white trash anthem to tobacco. The Soul Men do "Road House" A great instrumental stomper and Ronnie Cook and the Gaylads appear doing "Goo Goo Muck" A cool strange kind of thing that was later to be covered by the Cramps. The platter is capped off by Bob Vidone and the Rockers playing "Weird". Lots of greasy saxophone and a thumping guitar riff. This thing is good for the soul I'm tellin' ya.
Lightning Beat Man 7 "
Three songs on this 45. "I'm gonna kill ya tonight" has a great killer fuzz riff. "I Love You" is not a ballad by any stretch yet it is kind of warm in a desperate psychotic kind of way. "I think You Lie" is possibly the most raw, sloppiest riff that I have ever heard. I mean this in a good way folks. This thing is primitive. It's caveman clatter that satisfies in a way that the squares and normals will never understand.
Well there's just a few of the high culture treasures that I have come across lately. If your out there people, let me hear from ya.
So anway, I guess I'll review some of the new vinyl platters that I have procured in these last couple of weeks.
DMZ-RELICS
The tunes on this record were recorded sometime in 1977. DMZ were a important band in the early pantheon of garage revivalists and they soon evolved into the LYRES. The riffs are good as of course, they should be or else, why bother in the first place. The style definatly does harken back to the screaming sixtees kind of punk as well as mixing in some nice Ramones feel to the stuff. They also do some nice 60's covers including the classic 13th Floor Elevators tune "Your Gonna Miss Me".
SCUM OF THE EARTH part 2
This is a collection of various sixtees bands that in some way or another try to live up to the title.
Lots of cool stuff on here. The Bugs doing a song called slide which is a good garage punk stomper. Steve Purdy and the Studs doing "The Weed". No it's not about that weed but rather it's a kind of white trash anthem to tobacco. The Soul Men do "Road House" A great instrumental stomper and Ronnie Cook and the Gaylads appear doing "Goo Goo Muck" A cool strange kind of thing that was later to be covered by the Cramps. The platter is capped off by Bob Vidone and the Rockers playing "Weird". Lots of greasy saxophone and a thumping guitar riff. This thing is good for the soul I'm tellin' ya.
Lightning Beat Man 7 "
Three songs on this 45. "I'm gonna kill ya tonight" has a great killer fuzz riff. "I Love You" is not a ballad by any stretch yet it is kind of warm in a desperate psychotic kind of way. "I think You Lie" is possibly the most raw, sloppiest riff that I have ever heard. I mean this in a good way folks. This thing is primitive. It's caveman clatter that satisfies in a way that the squares and normals will never understand.
Well there's just a few of the high culture treasures that I have come across lately. If your out there people, let me hear from ya.
posted by Shep at 3:53 PM
2 Comments:
As a former member of Steve Purdy and the Studs,(drummer), we were not making any social comment,as we ranged in age from 16 to 22, and were at the age that we thought smoking was so cool that it would surely make us look good to the ladies. Little did we know!
I wonder which drummer made that comment. There was Steve Davis, Billy McConnell, and other traveling Studs. Billy McConnell made a Hilariously funny parody of "The Weed" in his home studio in Florida. It was certainly anti-smoking as he does not smoke. Reading that I am still getting airplay after this many years brings a smile to my life. Steve Purdy.
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