I am talking about the tracks that I listened to as a young teen that made me laugh my ass off with their twisted humour and deranged musical phrasology (is that a word?) and encouraged me to do something similar except with all the controls turned up to 11. Yes, it is true that some of the GWF tracks are as influential but I don't think they were quite as insane somehow.
I have chosen to post one of my faves here, Can-Opener by The Back Seat Boys. I don't know if they did any other tracks but maybe this one was enough.
P.S. - Karl, please leave £50 in old tea caddy underneath the canal bridge in Milnsbridge or my next expose will be I am the Nicest Guy I Know by the Al Jolsons of Death...
Friday, August 04, 2006
Karl's Hidden Past
I've really enjoyed listening to Karl's tracks on his new page and i'm looking forward to the subsequent releases to be posted on the Blog but I also feel that a part of Karl's CVC career may be left behind unless I expose it here on the CVC Blog once and for all.
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Yeah? YEAH?
Actually - I don't mind... Those little one-off things never get as much "exposure", but are arguably the real CVC gems.
The Al Jolsons stuff is completely barmy.
It's Gibs (beta) - Oooooh!
Maybe we could do a page of one-off miscellainous stuff on the site...
Which acts should get their own pages - how many tracks did Back Seat Boys do for example? How come Bastard Squad isn't on the site??? And By the way - sorry about my new webspace being suspended - they're being a bit weird about it (mysterious?) but I think it should be back up soon. Wanted me to confirm some details.
I've got a write up for Glass Orchard ready to go (Bastard Squad was a rehearsal track by that band) - just need to sort some MP3s. There's very little recorded evidence of them.
Back Seat Boys did two tracks - I think. I can't remember what the second was... There's Webfoot and Karcass, Al Jolsons. The original GWF line-up recorded a track without me and called themselves something else. Jon did a solo tape under the name "Jon Jugulation" with me and Phil Brooke. Jason and I did a single track under the name "Hodge".
Women In A Fish Hat (later, just Fish Hat) were odd - they were basically the GWF, but we did three tapes during the same time scale under that name - so they get forgotten. Some reproduce songs later recorded by ANLB or GWF. I think Jon and I recently decided to retroactively define those as GWF too...
Oh, there's so much to be done.
If you mean the 'blowing to the bridge of principle' track. That was something that Clem and I did - Karl overdubbed some vocals. There was another called 'Tell Me Son'.
Well, yeah, I remember tell me son 'cos it ended up on one of the Gibs tapes:
16 pints and a bottle of coke
give my bot a pencil poke
off to pick up greasy lil
open her legs and eat my fill
I guess Karl was responsible for those sublime lyrics...
I'd forgotten about "Tell Me Son" entirely - but those lyrics sound like me, I'm ashamed to admit.
Yay! Post it!
ok --- you asked for it!!!!
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