‘Bless Me Father’ is a cool psychedelic song with haunting organ, distorted guitar and wah wah…..it’s also blessed with some fuzz. This song has turned up on the CD only ‘A Fistful Of Fuzz’ compilation in the late 90s. Both songs were written by R. Sousa. I don’t know anything about the band apart from the rumour that they hailed from Rhode Island in New England, so any information will be appreciated. [Source]
[via Christian Finne]
The new single picks up where Hungtai left off with Badlands; his adoration of Sun Records allowing him to drift into a Johnny Cash story-telling mode: “I can see him dancin’/Going down the aisle/Lone Runner…Lone Runner.” The flip side features the cut “Stye Eye”, which was previously released on a limited edition cassette. You could almost say this new Dirty Beaches 7-inch is howling and grimy, but it would behoove me not to use such cliched adjectives. [Source]
Place this beast of a 45 on your turntable remembering to set the speed to 33, place the needle on the run-in groove, crank up the volume and prepare for lift off. A bendy guitar opening turns into crude snotty garage punk with attitude. The singer is full of pissed off fury. He wants to know why his girl ‘treats him so bad’ and he wants to know NOW or some cheatin’ bitch is gonna get slashed. Cue fuzz, hand claps and another cool lead guitar solo and The Misanthropes are done until you turn over the platter for the two song B-side.This is the only record The Misanthropes released so like their 60s counterparts they will be remembered as a one record, no hit wonder. They hailed from Harrisburg, PA by the way. [Source]
[via Jan Poulsen]
During the 1960s, Screaming Lord Sutch was known for his horror-themed stage show, dressing as Jack the Ripper, pre-dating the shock rock antics of Alice Cooper. Accompanied by his band, the Savages, he started by coming out of a black coffin. Other props included knives and daggers, skulls and “bodies”. Sutch booked themed tours, such as ‘Sutch and the Roman Empire’, where Sutch and the band members would be dressed up as Roman soldiers. Despite self-confessed lack of vocal talent, he released horror-themed singles during the early to mid-’60s, the most popular “Jack the Ripper”, covered live and on record by garage rock bands including the White Stripes, the Black Lips and the Horrors for their debut album, Strange House.
[via Nils Lassen via Peter Holmgård - dedicated to Jørgen Angel]
The Missing Links were Sydney, Australia’s answer to the Stones, Kinks, Pretty Things beat-boom of the mid-60′s, but like most Australian rock imports, their sound was suspiciously raw, wild, and completely unhinged. Sure the Pretty Things were pretty raw, wild, and unhinged themselves, but The Missing Links give it an armature flair that takes their proto-punk formula into another proto-psych dimension entirely. [Source]
[via Peter Elsnab]
The Feminine Complex were an all-female American garage rock band in the 1960s. The band formed while the girls were attending Maplewood High School in Nashville, Tennessee. They released only one album, Livin’ Love, in 1969.
[via Nils Lassen]
