Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Little Richard, the MC5, the Stooges, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, Sun City Girls, the Sonics, Bo Diddley, Hound Dog Taylor & the House Rockers, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Sam Phillips & Sun Records, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Troggs, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra & the Arkestra, Johnny Burnette & the Rock'n'Roll Trio, George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Can, the Velvet Underground, Chuck Berry, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Otis Redding, the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Zombies, the Kinks, the Small Faces, the Yardbirds, the Who (pre-Tommy), Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, the Beatles & the Plastic Ono Band, the Stones, the Animals, the Pretty Things (before their rock-opera period), the 13th Floor Elevators & Roky Erickson solo, the Monkees, the Angry Samoans, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC w/ Bon Scott, the Sweet, the Sparrow & Steppenwolf, the Dave Clark Five, Ike & Tina Turner, Othar Turner, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sonny Sharrock, Archie Shepp, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Larry Williams, Lee Dorsey, the Allman Bros w/ Duane, Carl Perkins, Elvis, Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps, Ricky Nelson w/ James Burton, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson (both of 'em), Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, B. B. King, Freddy King, Dylan circa '64-'66, Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet, Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, the Stalk-Forrest Group + Blue Oyster Cult '72-'76, Deep Purple (Machine Head era), Humble Pie w/ Frampton (in the studio), Motorhead (until Fast Eddie left), Alice Cooper group, the Golliwogs & Creedence Clearwater, Blue Cheer w/ Leigh Stephens, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service '66-'69, the original Charlatans, the Daily Flash, Jefferson Airplane (w/ Marty Balin), Big Brother & the Holding Co., Country Joe & the Fish, the Grateful Dead (up through American Beauty), the Pink Fairies & Larry Wallis, Hawkwind (70s), Man, Gong (pre-Hillage), Neu!, Family, the New York Dolls, Brownsville Station (first 4), the Flamin' Groovies (mostly w/ Roy Loney), the original Modern Lovers, Creme Soda, Debris', Rocket from the Tombs & Pere Ubu (before Mayo Thompson), the Dead Boys (1st), the Dictators (1st & 3rd), DMZ, T. Rex, Slade, early Suzi Quatro, Mott the Hoople, the Move, Grand Funk (Live Album), Black Sabbath (first 3), Dust (1st), Sir Lord Baltimore (Kingdom Come), Led Zep (first 4), the Saints w/ Ed Kuepper, the Ramones w/ Tommy, the Sex Pistols, the Scientists, Cheap Trick (In Color), Sly & the Family Stone, the Meters, the Ohio Players, Cameo, the Gap Band, the Isley Brothers, Kool & the Gang, Stevie Wonder, Wilson Pickett, Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions, General Crook, Don Covay, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the MG's, Rufus Thomas, X-Ray Spex, the Buzzcocks, Patti Smith '74-'76, Suicide, Richard Hell & the Voidoids w/ Robert Quine, Distorted Levels, Fear w/ Derf, Vox Pop, the Fall, Dave Edmunds & Nick Lowe (70s), Tav Falco's Panther Burns, the Cramps w/ Bryan Gregory, the Blasters (original 4-piece), the Flesh Eaters (A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die), the Gun Club (early live shows & Fire of Love), early Chrome, the Birthday Party, the Circle Jerks (Group Sex), the Pagans (on Drome), the Meat Puppets (on SST), Dick Dale & the Del-Tones, the Pyramids, the Chantays, Jim Messina & the Jesters, the Surfaris, Terry Riley (60s), Raymond Scott, Perrey & Kingsley, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Skip James, Robert Pete Williams, Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, Jimmie Rodgers, Dock Boggs, Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Uncle Dave Macon, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens & the Buckaroos, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Run-DMC, NWA w/ Ice Cube, Eric B. & Rakim, Digital Underground, Boogie Down Productions, Afrika Bambaataa, Outkast, Kool Keith / Dr. Octagon, MF Doom / Viktor Vaughn, the Beastie Boys, Schoolly D, Cypress Hill (1st), the Pharcyde (1st), Public Enemy & the Bomb Squad, early Public Image Ltd., the Urinals, Black Flag (pre-Rollins), Red Cross (Born Innocent), the Last (early), the Adolescents, the Minutemen, Saccharine Trust, Caroliner, the Butthole Surfers on Touch & Go, Black Oak Arkansas, Bob Seger (60s & early 70s), the Remains, the Shadows of Knight, the Del-Vetts, ? & the Mysterians, the Count Five, the Seeds, the Hombres, the Chocolate Watch Band, the Standells, Rudy Ray Moore, Pigmeat Markham, Redd Foxx, Moms Mabley, Blow Fly, Richard Pryor, Mark Twain, Bob Newhart, Don Knotts, Louis Nye, Phil Silvers, Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner, Jackie Gleason, Lucy & Desi, Jonathan Winters, Ernie Kovacs, Lord Buckley, Lenny Bruce, Allan Sherman, Paul Lynde, Abbott & Costello, the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Woody Allen (his "early, funny ones" + Zelig), Larry David, Sascha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman, Chris Elliott, George Carlin, Cheech & Chong (Earache My Eye 45 & Up in Smoke movie), Rodney Dangerfield, Henny Youngman, Benny Hill, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Stan Freberg, Harry Smith, the Master Musicians of Joujouka, Boyce & Hart, the Cowsills, the Archies, the Banana Splits, Josie & the Pussycats, the Mosquitoes, the Honeybees, the Bedbugs, the Redcoats, the Partridge Family (I Woke Up in Love This Morning), the Osmonds (Crazy Horses), the Enemies, Johnny Poke, Harley Hatfield, Keevy Hazelton, Tadpole Talbot, Speck Rhodes, the original Johnny Bravo, Eddie Haskell, Maynard G. Krebs, Russ Meyer, Luis Buñuel, Roger Corman, A.I.P., Vincent Price, Eric Von Zipper, Frankie & Annette, Les Baxter, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (Some Velvet Morning), Raquel Welch, Dawn Wells & Tina Louise, William Castle, Ed Wood Jr., Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Kenneth Anger, John Waters, Robert Altman, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini, Bernard Hermann, Alfred Hitchcock, Georges Méliès, Merian C. Cooper, Tod Browning, James Whale, Boris Karloff, Mary Shelley, Gloria Stavers, Gloria Leonard, Candy Samples, Canned Heat w/ Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, Cream (in the studio), the Doors, the Faces w/ Ronnie Lane, Roxy Music w/ Eno + Eno's early rock records, Pandora (Space Amazon CD), Fleetwood Mac (until Jeremy Spencer split), the Flying Burrito Brothers w/ Gram (but not solo Gram!), Nilsson (Son of Schmilsson), the Hollies, Tommy James & the Shondells, the Grass Roots, the Guess Who, Big Star & Alex Chilton, Badfinger on Apple, the Raspberries, the Dwight Twilley Band (1st), the Music Machine, Johnny Rivers (60s), Richard Berry, the Kingsmen, the Trashmen, the Blues Project, the Rascals, the J. Geils Band (early), Dr. John, ZZ Top (70s), Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie (early), Adrienne Barbeau, Julie Newmar, Yvonne Craig, Adam West, Vic Mizzy, Tommy Tedesco, Jay Sommers (Green Acres), Paul Henning (The Beverly Hillbillies), Elizabeth Montgomery & William Asher (Bewitched), Barbara Eden & Sidney Sheldon (I Dream of Jeannie), The Addams Family, The Munsters, F Troop, Rod Serling, David Allan Coe, Dick Curless, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, George Jones, Lefty Frizzell, Jack Clement, Waylon Jennings, Gary Stewart (Your Place Or Mine LP), Joe Ely (early), Tom T. Hall, Jerry Reed, Tony Joe White, the Louvin Brothers, Amos Milburn, Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, Ella Mae Morse, Hardrock Gunter, Moon Mullican, Louis Prima, the Johnny Otis Show, Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Phil Spector & the Ronettes & the Crystals, Warren Smith, Billy Lee Riley, Hasil Adkins, Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks, the Collins Kids, the Maddox Brothers & Rose, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly & the Crickets, Link Wray, Duane Eddy, Dale Hawkins, Jocko Henderson, the Real Don Steele, John R. (WLAC), Beaker Street (KAAY 1970s underground rock show), KDAY (L.A. hiphop 1980s), Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Robert Mitchum, Mamie Van Doren, Wanda Jackson, Roy Brown, Shirley & Lee, Don & Dewey, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Esquerita, Junior Parker, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Billy Boy Arnold, the Coasters, Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns, Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, U-Roy, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Mikey Dread, Tapper Zukie, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Toots & the Maytals, Desmond Dekker & the Aces, Junior Murvin, Jimmy Cliff, Dave & Ansell Collins, Joseph Conrad, R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Jim Steranko, Not Brand Echh, Harvey Kurtzman & Will Elder, Basil Wolverton, William Gaines, Will Eisner, Winsor McKay, Wally Wood, Alex Toth, Big Daddy Roth, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters, Paul Krassner, John Sinclair, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard, Jonathan Swift, Robert Anton Wilson, Last Exit, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Raymond Chandler, W. C. Fields, Terry Southern, Peter Sellers, H. P. Lovecraft (not the band), the Band, the Butterfield Blues Band w/ Mike Bloomfield, Them w/ Van Morrison, the Four Seasons, Lesley Gore, Del Shannon, Kasenetz & Katz bubblegum (Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Co., etc.), Jackie DeShannon, Claudine Longet, ABBA, the Carpenters, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, the Bobby Fuller Four, the Holy Modal Rounders, the Fugs, the Godz (ESP), Harpers Bizarre, Hackamore Brick, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, the Shaggs, the Shangri-Las, the Dixie Cups, the Honeys / Spring, Dusty Springfield, the Shocking Blue, Friendsound (Joyride LP), the Mothers of Invention, the Monks, the Bonzo Dog Band, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Spike Jones, Harry Partch, Johann Sebastian Bach (Marie-Claire Alain plays The Great Bach Organ Favorites Vol. 1), Erik Satie, the Camarata Contemporary Chamber Group plays the music of Satie (2 volumes), Pierre Schaeffer, Pärson Sound, Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson, John McLaughlin (Devotion), Fats Waller, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Ferrante & Teicher, Buffalo Springfield & 70s Neil Young (plus Arc) & Crazy Horse (1st LP), the Factory & early Little Feat, Love, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Turtles, the Byrds, the Birds (Ron Wood's mod band), the Creation, Donovan, the Fleischer Brothers, Matt Groening, Bob Clampett (Beany & Cecil!), Chuck Jones, George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Ishmael Reed (Mumbo Jumbo), Amiri Baraka, Jay Ward & Bill Scott, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer (The Venture Bros.), Moral Orel, Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, Buchanan & Goodman (The Flying Saucer), the Marcels (Blue Moon), the Dovells, the C*nts (Chemicals in the Mail), Spinal Tap, Van Halen (Women and Children First), Kiss (before the solo LPs), Aerosmith (Toys In The Attic & Rocks), Armand Schaubroeck Steals & Churchmice, Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer, Nick Tosches, the Mad Peck, Home Blitz, the Bon Vivants, Meercaz, the Screamin' Mee-Mees, MX-80 Sound, Ken Highland & the original Gizmos, etc.
Take me back. Yeah, take me back.
Take me back to where I once beee-longed. (Elvis version of the
Fab 4.) Git back juju. Man, I always hated "retro"--although I
always loved "roots." What's the diff? Who knows, and who cares!
After 15 years or so in the musical outer regions, the Crawlspace mamaship
touched down on solid rock again. Start wigglin' yer toes in mud and rollin'
rugs off the floor. What am I saying here, brothers and sisters? I'm
saying . . . LET'S ROCK!
Out in Slippy Town, Republic of California,
they got rock and revolution on their minds. R&R circa
1950-1976 (but time is an illusion). Revolution coz yeah, war
still sux and racism still sux. But this is revolution thru tokin'
and dancin'--not the kinda bad-vibe methods that W.'s cabal is using
to fug up the whole party. What follows is the Crawlspace 13-point
program, collectively known as THE SPIRIT OF '76:
1. "Theme For A Wet T-Shirt Contest"
-- The boys in the band jam out an instrumental intro in honor
of perky nipples 'n plump-dimpled butts. This ain't sexism, sisters,
it's bowing before the holy twat.
2. "Califawnia Gurls" -- Original version
was from 1976 by the Brooklyn trio called O. Rex (with upstate
NY dude and Gizmos founder Ken Highland). Hey gals, if you refuse
it, you just might lose it! Keep them snappers from snappin' too
hard!
3. "Just Seventeen" -- Heavy Raiders tune
from their "hip" 1970 album COLLAGE. Crawlspace will now paraphrase
the prophet John Waters: "If there's hair, it's fair!" How many
puritans does it take to screw in a light bulb? Nobody knows, because
puritans won't admit they screw.
4. "Hey Joe (Version Version)" -- Mutation
in action: Patti Smith's "Sixty Days" intro to her "Hey Joe
(Version)" '74 single + the Arthur Lee/Love arrangement '66
= Crawlspace breathin' in some folk-rockin' air. The message is pretty
muddled here, but yes, there is anti-Iraq War rhetoric improvised towards
the end. I mean, really, man, can you BELIEVE the 21st century so far?!
5. "Fight For Liberation" -- Crawlspace
stands for rock first, but we're also lefties somewhere down
the line. Yes, art always outweighs politics, but sometimes
they get all tangled up in a way that works. One of the best examples
of that is Patrick Sky's 1973 album SONGS THAT MADE AMERICA FAMOUS.
The original of this song was the opening track. It has a "message"--it's
not very subtle--it sez look at the world from the bottom up. It's
also funny!
6. "Take Your War On Vacation" -- This is our
own personal rockin' take on the current insanity. Our philosophy
of life: hey man, let's all just get stoned and forget about it--but
if you just can't let it go, puh-leeze attack the right people and
leave the rest of us alone! Can't we all just get along? Won't you
please pass the bong?
7. "Leavin' Here" -- And if we can't find
no peace, we might just gotta be gettin' outta here again! Where's
my space suit? We based our version of Eddie Holland's "Leavin'
Here" on the 1965 cover version by Ron Wood's mod band the Birds.
8. "Space Truckin'" -- Riff! Riff! Bang!
Bang-a-bang! Whoosh! We take Deep Purple's 1972 classic and
throw it in the furnace of our homemade UFO. Here we go again!
Rrrrrrrrrroooooaarrrrrr!
9. "Rat Fink" -- From Allan Sherman's
immortal album MY SON, THE NUT (1963). Crawlspace turns Sherman's
version of "Rag Mop" into a stoned skunkabilly anthem. Everybody
sing along: "R - A - T - T F - I - N - K! Rat fink! Yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah!" The political ramifications of this track are open
to debate.
10. "Never Never" -- When will we stop rockin'?
The title sez it all! Git on board the rocket ship now! This
is the third and final Crawlspace original here.
11. "Chemicals In The Mail" -- The spirit
of . . . '78? That's the year the original of this killer
was released by the C*nts. It's another song with a strong message:
"I just turn the channels till I get chemicals in the mail."
12. "Erotic Neurotic" -- An abbreviated
version of a long punk-rock song from 1977 by the Saints, quite
possibly the best so-called punk-rock band that ever existed.
So sayeth the mighty author of these words!
13. "Sympathy For The Devil" -- What can
be said? Good and evil are illusions of the human brain. But if
forced to choose, rock'n'roll must choose Lucifer. How'd the Horned
One get such a bad rep anyway? This tune, of course, is the opening
track from the best album (released '68) by the world's eleventh greatest
R&R band. Yes, music fans, the beginning of this track is a jam
coming out of a Roky Erickson song ("Children nailed to the cross!"),
but we won't tell you which one! As for the end of the track, yes,
there is something wrong with your stereo--impatient punks can simply
turn it off, hippie rockers can pack another bowl and groove on .
. . and on.
Released October 2006. Cover painting by Krazee Ken Highland, circa 1973.
WHOA does anyone know anyone who knows anyone who is going to this on SAT (10th) early evening near the Montgomery St BART?
it is my cultural duty to see to it at near-ground zero (or i should say, ground zero for suburban dorktards to crash and reroute) that these dorks don't FUCK WITH MY MUSIC MY ERA MINE MINE MINE you clubb twerps
and my duty to dig up someone w/a phone camera so we can put a suitable gaytarded "dance-off" Backstreet-style to YouTube
hell there even is a small chance that ms waga gaga my pop idol 2009 might be there (in disguise)
since you have mastered the art of posing w/guitar (or drumm kit) (or microphone) without looking like a metal/hardcore/grunge retard AND own one or more Monkees records, you have obviously qualified to receive any Inner Circle muso message(s) -- like this one today --
huhh you might need to check in re this UK Glitter Rock revisionism, especially now that it involves naked lesbians
... like I was saying man, if your fiends want to hear the "Head of the beast named Crawlspace" on an unrelated track, Cool. I've got a snippet "in-the-mix" with about 9 other songs on file for them to get wiccked wit it.
Next mix recording will be something different so I'll change my listing settings to reflect the newer tracks posted then. - Your friend
I was struggling to figure out why myspace added you as my friend when I set up the account--then I remember: You sold me a Melvins 7" around a year ago or so. Thanks again for that, man!
yeahh that was the BGN interview i cut/pasted into the forum thread. (which is now up to 500+ posts about everytning in the world). i got you down on one of the PC mini-desk post-its for "dub of Gizmo Bros" yeahh it's both funny straigh tthrough (everytime we say anything between songs) AND prettty fuckin good in spots. kenne did his cover versions of "baby it's you" (like T.Rex) and "misery" (like Felice/Real Kids), innnneresting. oh jesus and on the fly hit a few of those 'weird major scale notes' as a short faux-Bolan gtr solo definitely not 5000 miles within the beatles original-cover-version. fuuuck just thinking about that makes me want to get out my inch-thick way-worn (that's why it only stickered for $1.98,but plays fine)UK MONO please please me album, best fucking sounding raw 60's recording EVER.
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