Yeah, yeah I said I was taking a break-- and I am-- as soon as I get this post outta the way as I'd already started working on it before my lack of patience reached Critical Mass. If you're familiar with the old blog, you know that I'm a big fan of ESP-Disk, these guys in particular:
GODZ - The Third Testament
Here's where the Godz decided to "get musical" adding such luminaries as "Howie's Cousin" and "J. ?" At least that's its reputation, but in truth, "The Third Testament" is loaded with even more primal potency than its predecessors ("Contact High" & "Godz 2"). Sure, "Ruby Red" and "Walking Guitar Blues" are filled with the same Woody Guthrie-via-Dylanisms that were retch-inducing in the hands of lesser artists, but as performed by NYC's finest, become a big middle finger right up the ass of Flower Power. A line as hippie-dippy as "Since when did they outlaw song?" would be enough to make me go outside to pummel the first moron wearing tie-dye if it were sung by a pus-bag like Joni Mitchell, but from the Mouths of Godz it becomes an indictment; A pisstake on the naive cultural "icons" that surrounded 'em Circa 1968.
Speaking of pisstakes, "Womban" is perhaps the Godz' ultimate achievement-- what at first sounds like a polyrhythmic caveman stomp with no hint of melody, with repeated plays reveals itself as a thrashing of soon-commonplace, uber-macho grunters like Bobby Lemon-Squeezer. "The First Multitude" with its outta tune droning guitars, overwhelming percussion and collage of radio snippets may very well be the birth of krautrock-- spin it back-to-back with Faust's early work and then tell me I ain't onto somethin'.
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ReplyDelete...i gotta say i never had a problem with hippies...i can't understand the hostility generated towards hippies whether from the sixties or towards the pretend kind today...i mean they weren't jesus freaks or hari krishnas for crying out loud...and there's worse human feces walking around than them too...Robert Picton ring any bells...or how about our very special guest of the hour the right disreputable Ex-prime Sleazminister Brian the chin Mulroney...and don't make me pull out the pure evil that is Celine Dion...and the new mother Teresa patron saint of the usa Opra the smile that scares the crap out of me Winfrey...there really is a whole lotta nasty walking around out there and most of it doesn't wear tie die...
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, man-- I'm an equal opportunity hater, but think of this:
ReplyDeleteHippies > Yuppies = Pure Hypocrisy
Mulroney-- hahaha. I refused to shake his hand when he came to speak at a function I was obligated to attend recently. My comrades looked at me like I'd taken a piss in the punchbowl. FUCK. HIM. This country is still struggling to regain any self-respect after his reign of terror. That living, walking human offal destroyed more lives than Picton could've even dreamed about.
"I will love everyone / I will love the cops as they kick the shit out of me on the street."
...opportunistic scumbags hid behind many tie die disguises and just because someone wears a goatee doesn't make them a beatnik..brilliantly packaged aggressive profit focus became the new ideal... an army of assholes found a place for their psychopathic tendencies in the business wing of hell on earth. And fuck, guess what? they get to rewrite history too.....the correct formula should be:
ReplyDeletepeople who still give a fuck: 23 + people who don't give a fuck except for their own interests: 999999999999 =
99999999999(a guaranteed fresh new definition of reality)...
What about this stupid f..., is he gone????
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this, I heard a lot of them but never managed to listen to anything.
Have a nice holiday!
Re: the Dogz...some of this is quite brilliant psychedelic antipop....but most are sound montages more akin to what Arthur Lipsett was doing with black and white 16mm film at the NFB....what keeps this interesting is the constant but subtle beat no matter the chaos.... the humor in the absurd vocal repetitions .....and the gloomy/groovy folk interludes... and an anxious sense that something big and silly was about to happen...great and embarrassing fun stuff...
ReplyDeleteI love the Godz, you can tell that they actually learned a few chords by the time this record came out. I wouldn't even call this hippy music because it's aggressive and mad, something hippies don' t have use for. I heard the first Godz record at Bizarro Wuxtry and bought it right then and there.
ReplyDeleteas always, you are too kind. thanks again.
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