Ace Farren Ford, Dennis Duck, Conroy, Ju Suk Reet Meate, rockandrolljackie, Victor Sparks,
Amazon Bambi, Arsene Zara, Borneo Jimmy, Burned Mind, Cheesebro, Cheese It Ritz, Chucko Fats, D.K. Dr. Id, Dr.Odd, Electric Bill, Foon, Iso, Jerry, Jerry, John, Pizza Rioux, Samak Cosmano,
Influences
Sun Ra, John Cage, William Burroughs, Ernie Kovacs, The Three Stooges, Tom Recchion, Dennis Duck, Ace, Electric Bill, Turkey Mon,ROCK AND ROLL, R&B!, Howlin Wolf, Jazz, Lee Rockey, Monk, Miles, Captian Beefheart, Mckinley Morganfield, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Perry Robinson, WOLF EYES!, Nautical Almanac, TWIG!, CARLY!, all the Baltimore westside, High Zero, David Keenan, Tarpis Tula, Chris Corsano, Hair Police, Charles Ives, Edgard Varese, Leon Thereimin, Lon Chaney jr. and sr., Brian Wilson, Charles Mingus, Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi, John Waters, Russ Meyer, Kitten Nativedad, Haji, Tura Satana, Steve Underwood, Tuesday Weld, Roddy McDowell, Liz, The Loved One, Terry Southern, Prurient, T, Caroliner, Rubber 0 Cement, Carlos Giffoni, Metalux, Oum Kalshoum, Farouz, Hicham , Ricky Nelson, Ozzie and Harriet, Raymond Scott, John Wiese, Sharkiface, Bob Wills, Cab Calloway, Shoobie Taylor, Wanda Jackson, the Fendermen, Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, Ray Collins, Jimmy Carl Black, Frank Bedahl, Little Richard, Sammy Davis jr., The Trieners, LAFMS, The Red Shoes, Alice Cooper (before he went solo!), The Mothers Of Invention, Dion McGregor, Jack Benny, Demons, Steve Kenney, The Galen, Aaron Dilloway, Dead Machines, The Hair Police, Burning Star Core, Jack Webb, Eric Dolphy, Link Wray, Peter B., Gowns, King Oliver, Roscoe Holcomb, Dick Shawn, Spike Jones, Annette, the Beach Boys, The Beatles,
Eno, Bob and Ray, Tim Buckley, John Fahey, Blood Stereo, Birds of Delay, Fred Cole, Beast, the Ziplocs, The Screamers, The Boredoms, The Wipers, The Belaires, Dick Dale, The Louvin Brothers, Buck Owens, Porter Wagoner, Warren Smith, Bob Luman, Sonny Burgess, The Ventures, The Cramps, The Dead Kennedys, Test Dept.,,everyone and everything in no particular order.
Sounds Like
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Record Label
LAFMS, No Fun, QBICO, Important, Harbingersound...
S,Smegma Started collectively by Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cheese It Ritz, Chucko Fats, Dennis Duck, Amazon Bambi and Cheesebro. Dr.Id doing some of the recording and most of the video when he could be there (he was in the armed services). Started 1973 at the Adena house in Pasadena, CA> They mostly jammed and recorded at the collective households. also around were, Jerry (the President of LAFMS and the one to give smegma the "Smegma" name). Bev. Rioux, Craig and many others.
Ace Farren Ford joined in 1974 (?).
They played such infamous shows as "jerry Lewis telethon" live telecast from the Coronado High School in front of the trophy case(audio and video recordings), Dr. Id 's cable television show "the terminal timewarp hour" (id n odd prod.) From the Adena House they moved into Bub Manor where Dr.Id had "Bub Studios".
Ju Suk Reet Meate, Chucko Fats, Dr.Id, Amazon Bambi and Cheese It Ritz moved to Corvallis Oregon in fall of 1975 and then on to Portland Oregon, Where all but Chucko remained. Chucko became D.K. and helped Smegma connect with the blossoming "Punk Rock" Scene ('70's ). Where they shared the bill with "The Wipers", "The Neo-Boys", "The Fix", and "The Dead Kennedys" among others. Much of this scene was documented by Mike Lastra aka Dr.Id.
"Five years wasted/Glamour Girl/I Wear Teeth" Smegma's first full length LP (recorded 1978) , released on LAFMS. This record also has Danton Dodge and Frank Chavez aka "Gods Of The Pits". Some Singles "Flashcards, Disco Diahreah (Cheese it Ritz) and others.
"Pigs For Lepers" and "Flies like Holidays" recorded 1982 for Smegma's own "Pigface Records". "Flies like holidays" was a compilation of various Portland experemental music artists, featureing; "Possum Society", "Gourmet Dogs", "Faulty Denial Mechanism", "Smegma" "Dickensmeglee" (Featureing Lee Rockey, check out "Lee Rockey Music" DE STIJL) and others. Recorded in Smegma's basement studio and Mike Lastra's Studio (Which I remember being called Ethos Productions until he became aware someone else in the Portland area was already using that name.
1993-1996Smegma worked with TimKerr records to release, "ISM", featureing Ace Farren Ford, Lee Rockey, Arsene Zara, Samek Cosmano and John Jensen.
2003 "The Beast", DE STIJL LP/CD Hanson, Wolf Eyes/Smegma collaboration.2004 "Rumblings" CD Hanson, "30 Years of Service" Smegma with Steve Mackay, Radon CD, West coast tour with Rubber O Cement, Comets On Fire and Wolf Eyes.
2005 KRAAK festival Belgium, Les Voutes Paris with Caroliner.
2006 Metalux/Giffoni/Smegma LP LAFMS/No Fun Productions LP, Pigs For Lepers CD reisuue, Harbingersound, Smegma @ No Fun Fest, Smegma @ Subcurrent,, Smegma tour with Runzelstirn and Gurglestock brought to you by Harbingersound featureing Hototogisu, Birds of Delay, Deepkiss 720 and more.October 2006 Carlos Giffoni and Jazzkammer record with Smegma. Lee Rockey Music LP, DE STIJL (AMAZING posthumous release by Jazz giant and Smegma member Lee Rockey)2007 QBICO 57 Smegma and Perry Robinson, reissues of Smegma Lp's "Pigs For Lepers" and"Nattering Naybobs Of Negativity" CD Harbingersound.........Smegma's only really bonafide tour into totally unfamiliar territory (the UK!)(Smegma had played all the cities on the Wolf Eyes 2004 in the past). Mike Lastra had the Portland premeire of his film "Northwest Passage" in northwest portland at the 21st ave. cinema(next to where many of the shows actually happened back in the day, certainly "portland punk live at the earth 10/29/79"!!!!!.), last year it premeired in Glasgow, Scotland as part of "Subcurrent"(thanks again! David!)
Smegma's new LP/CD called "33 1/3" on Important records, features Victor Sparks (who is uncredited, due to my stupidity!) on "World Of Plugs" and also features Sejayno and Soup Purse (also uncredidted due to my error, please refer to" 33 1/3 blog") E
"Endless Coast CD (No Fun CD)Smegma/Jazzkammer collaboration!
AMAZING!
2007 "the Smell Remains The Same" a compilation of singles 1989- 1995, released on Anarchy Moon LP.
September 2007 marks the biggest change in Smegma since some of the band members moved out of Pasadena to Oregon.
This site is devoted to the Smegma that is a vision of Ju Suk Reet Meate.
Past, Present and Future.
This band continues on under the Musical Supervision of Ju Suk Reet Meate.
(D)(B)(H) - "not all girls just wanna have fun" c40 TAPE "skirting the line between commune-psych excess(es - i’m implicitly
reminded of the swedish early 70s wave - international harvester, et.al
- but also contemporary hydra-headed beasts like sapat) & a kind of
desultory group-mind version of the freewheeling fire music, this music
takes in a lot of disparate influences yet stays on target
throughout... this tape features a bunch of shorter tracks; each living
it’s own fidelity/soundworld, each edited to provide the “meat” of each
given session / lineup without too much in the way of “filler”;
something a rarity in these days of endless “fill the void”
documentation... free and focused extended-jams courtesy of this rag-tag collective from bloomington, indiana. recorded in 2007
& 2008, involving: justin rhody, clare hubbard, keith wright, jail
flanagan, jeff witscher, dave easlick, tricky matt, kray fanny, greg
blakemore, dorey fox, chris barth and more. recorded live (no
overdubs) onto a small one track thrift store tape deck. tribal and
bizarre, not quite fitting into any of the pre-charted territories..."
released throughRARE YOUTH recordings (www.rareyouth.org) available through:rare youth, friends & relatives, forced exposure, mimaroglu music, molehill, armageddon and volcanic tongue...
$7 ppd in the U.S.A.
Recorded:
live on March 16, 2003 at the Beta Lounge in San Francisco
In
1967, San Francisco’s Fifty
Foot Hose were certainly one of the innovators of a sound that
took Psychedelia to new heights and was captured on the band’s one
record, Cauldron. They are a totally unique hybrid—on one
hand pulsating bay area acid rock, on the other, fractured electronic
freakery, becoming one whole cohesive being. The sci-fi-ish video
game-like artwork hinted at the sounds within, as did the Limelight
label’s pedigree for truly progressive sounds. Band leader, Cork
Marcheschi, used homemade electronic devices to create crude and
experimental soundscapes and instrumental compositions that were
sprinkled throughout the album.
Often starting shows with a
swelling rumble that exploded into the first song, they soon
developed a rabid following on the SF scene, though there was the
occasional totally wrong gig, like when a very-pregnant Nancy had to
perform at a Catholic Girls’ school! Still, the group wowed the
crowds, performing with greats like Chuck
Berry and Fairport
Convention.
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