Today I am providing to you, from the darkest part of your mind, the music you will use as your soundtrack before you go out and commit mass murder. I know you've probably never heard this so let me give you a review. Think of the darkest, murkiest, scariest, part of the swamp. A place in your mind that everyone has but few tend to dwell there. The music you want playing before World War 3. The music that will help you get that scream out that you've held in for the past 3 and a half years. The lowest of lo-fi recording, vocals that remind me of Robert Plant realizing he's being buried alive. A hum in the recording that will make your friends hate you. How did you ever hear this Jobe,you might ask?...Well many, many years ago our local college station used to have a show called "Raw Guts" on this show they featured the latest in "Punk Rock" The D.J. played "Hot Pistol" one night from King Bee. I was totally floored by this. I ended up calling the D.J. and got as much info as I could (and yes fans, this was way before there was a thing called the Internet) I managed to start a correspondence with Whizeagle records in Portland, sent my 5 dollars and am proud to say one of the greatest 5 dollar investments I ever made. This is the exclusive 3 song E.P. If you love The Cramps, The Gun Club (which really doesn't have a lot to do with this recording) I think you're gonna love this. Don't take my word for it let me let a couple others explain. MY ORIGINAL VINYL COPY
From the sellers reviews at Discogs
"The single is the only artifact King Bee left behind. The fidelity is terrible. There's a ground buzz that's as loud as the music itself. The sound is bad on the whole production run"
Or there's this
"Some noise at the beginning of play"
Songs
1. Hot Pistol
Side 2
1.Headache
2. Zip Gun
HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED (not the link)
(This is)
PISTOL GOTTA WHOLE LOTTA MESS MY AIM'S ON YOUR NEW DRESS
interesting discovery...Im sure you know the significance of Fred Cole. Certainly not a one trick pony. I have pondered "who came 1st" as Weeds/Lollipop Shop did the Love Da Capo sound in my opinion good or better than "Love"...and at roughly the same time! I was a long time collector of Dead Moon. Fred pressed his own records..in his home!!!!God bless him. I bought more than a few of lps directly from him via mail order. An important person in R&R history.....He did it his own way for over 50 years ... a great loss to us all....Just for a thrill look for some Lollipop Shop & DM
ReplyDeleteThanks bk I do have a couple of Dead moon things and a Zipper CD but was not aware of the Weeds/Lollipop Shop stuff I'll look for it
ReplyDeleteI would download it . . . but I'm frightened now!
ReplyDeletethank you-love fred cole, this was new to me
ReplyDeleteSpoiled, this one is. having seen too many Dead Moon, Rats, and Pierced Arrow shows that I can shake a jack daniels bottle soaked in living breathing candle wax or a beer soaked drum head at. and having lived with The kit master extroidinaire hisself for a time, Mr. Andrew Loomis, RIP. FredandToody, really just one name as you never saw one without the other. One of the great all time RnR love stories of all time, up there with Lux and Ivy. And they were like benefactors of the entire NW scene and would do whatever whenever for anyone, never heard a tale of them putting on airs or this is my show, I get this and you get what I give ya. Just never happened. And he was the consumate fan as well seeing him light up when an unknown opener caught his ear was something special and how he would find them after their set and ask questions like just another new fan would and sometimes the looks on the faces of the other band was even better. Like stumbling for words or just slack hawed and he could put them at ease with a hug, smile, or a lame ass joke, same with Toody. File under you dont know what you got til its gone. PDX even celebrates Dead Moon Night by mayoral proclamation, go figure. And talk about some devoted fans, people would shower them with the oddest and the most wonderful of items, mostly handmade, I mean, duh right, one sticks out a dozen eggs with the egg blown out a too small to allow hole and then painted with the dead moon logos. And no other band would have ever gotten all 12 of them back home from Pittsburgh to PDX with plenty of stops and load in/outs in between, but they did bc I saw them get them, and saw them displayed years later (Bob&Gob) and he was a walking encyclopedia of all things rock as well. And on the rare occasion he would put on his orator hat, well, you could hear a needle drop for as long as he wanted to rap. God damn, yeah, he was a Good Egg, They were Good Eggs. They Are Good Eggs.54-40 or fight Katz n Kittinz! PS I still have a Capt Whizeagle's shirt, dam thing seems to keep shrinking though , must be cheap cotton, or spendy booze, hell, its the Booze.
ReplyDeleteKUDOS to the Dead Moon of the Blogosphere, fbsVW! from Thee Most High, Thee Rev LouCifer. Keep on cultivating this magic garden, or dont, but you will, when you love what ya do, it shines through like a Locomotive light lighting up the night and smashing through your bedroom wall....And I dont even have this, only seen photocopies of the sleeve art in mags, the paper kind. very very nice my friend...This ones for Fred and Andrew, and Toody too, Salute! and now a lighter for a chaser, oh, yeah, I can just use my finger, even LouCifer gets taken away when the mind spins around to that Dead Moon beat, Dig It~!