RECORDED OVER ONE TWENTY FOUR HOUR PERIOD WITH ENGINEER GENIUS TONY COHEN TWIDDLING NOBS, THIS LANDMARK DISC WAS STUFFED TO THE MAGGOT INFESTED EYEBALLS WITH TWANGY, TWISTED, COUNTRY INSPIRED SONGS REVOLVING AROUND DEATH, LOSS, TRAINS AND DESTRUCTION . . . .
TEX PERKINS ON LEAD VOCALS WAS THE LEAST WELL KNOWN OF UNDERGROUND LEGENDS SPENCER P JONES, JAMES BAKER, BORIS SUDJOVIC AND KIM SALMON, BUT ASSUMED TOTAL CONTROL WITH HIS MALEVOLENT, MENACING APPROACH TO HIS ROLE, PARTICULARLY ON THIS CLASSIC LEON PAYNE DITTY "PSYCHO" . . . .
DARK AND MENACING, HE TELLS THE TALE BEAUTIFULLY AND WOULD SOON GO ON TO FOLKLORIC STATUS HIMSELF WITH THE BEASTS AND THE CRUEL SEA.
You can take the following as gospel . . . . the last support my first band did with The Johnny's was just after 'The Axeman's Jazz' had been wrapped, Spencer was giving us the lowdown after the gig, it was done in one continuous session, 24 hours straight . . . . or bent, as the case may be.
In typical and classic rock and roll excess style, by completion, Tex, Spencer and James were literally carried out of the studio . . . . all with a massive case of way too much of everything, you can feel it when listening to the album, but, not unlike Keef on 'Exile on Main Street', it only adds to the brilliance of the final sound . . . .
Sometimes, nothing succeeds quite like total and over the top excess . . . . dig this killer version of "Psycho" by The Beasts of Bourbon . . . . then go out and get the album !!!
TEX PERKINS ON LEAD VOCALS WAS THE LEAST WELL KNOWN OF UNDERGROUND LEGENDS SPENCER P JONES, JAMES BAKER, BORIS SUDJOVIC AND KIM SALMON, BUT ASSUMED TOTAL CONTROL WITH HIS MALEVOLENT, MENACING APPROACH TO HIS ROLE, PARTICULARLY ON THIS CLASSIC LEON PAYNE DITTY "PSYCHO" . . . .
DARK AND MENACING, HE TELLS THE TALE BEAUTIFULLY AND WOULD SOON GO ON TO FOLKLORIC STATUS HIMSELF WITH THE BEASTS AND THE CRUEL SEA.
You can take the following as gospel . . . . the last support my first band did with The Johnny's was just after 'The Axeman's Jazz' had been wrapped, Spencer was giving us the lowdown after the gig, it was done in one continuous session, 24 hours straight . . . . or bent, as the case may be.
In typical and classic rock and roll excess style, by completion, Tex, Spencer and James were literally carried out of the studio . . . . all with a massive case of way too much of everything, you can feel it when listening to the album, but, not unlike Keef on 'Exile on Main Street', it only adds to the brilliance of the final sound . . . .
Sometimes, nothing succeeds quite like total and over the top excess . . . . dig this killer version of "Psycho" by The Beasts of Bourbon . . . . then go out and get the album !!!
holy shit whitey! tuneage of the devil himself! faark! not heard this before, thank you for enlightening us mortals with this weirdness, i'm going to carve the number of the beast on my forehead with a rusty blade while i listen to this one again, no offence on the bimmer rear hub comment me old mucker, feel free to chip in with anything on my humble offerings, let's not get too precious like some of the fashionista out there my soul brother, massive post's as usual mate, like britney said, 'hit me baby....'
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