Think I'm Psycho, Doncha?

BEASTS OF BOURBON - The Axeman's Jazz (1984)

So, to save myself some pissing around, here's what I said about these uncouth bastards way back here (it's for "Sour Mash" for those who give a shit):

A band where words fail me to describe their influence on my blackened soul. Hell, I wouldn’t be a fraction of the unrepentant scumbag and nuisance to assorted government apparatus without their guidance. Formed in Sydney, Oz as a hobby band by Kim Salmon (guitars) and Boris Sudjovic (bass) of the Scientists, James Baker of the Hoodoo Gurus (drums), Spencer Jones (guitars) of the Johnnys and future throat of the Cruel Sea, Tex Perkins, they cut their debut, “The Axeman’s Jazz” in a single afternoon in 1983.

And I wouldn't change a word of it. Though Tex Perkins hadn't mastered the unmistakable bellow we've come to know and worship on "Axeman," he's still pretty damn convincing donning the persona of a man who seemingly murders everyone he meets (in first person) on thee eerie yet hilarious cover of Leon Payne's "Psycho," and band original "Love & Death" where he spins a similar yarn in third person. And that's to say nothing of Kim Salmon's countrified yet punky guit-mauling that conjures a surreality not heard before or since-- Charley Patton's malevolent phantom inhabiting the body of John Morton (Electric Eels) perhaps?

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