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Chris ''I-was-made-for-loving-you'' Cordoba;
Herbacious Keys,
Wylsie of Camberwell;
Max Vanderwolf: Professional Charlatan;
Lionel Hoops the sad-eyed elephant boy;
No-More-Nora (whore to the stars);
the binky twins, Will Power,
philip seemore hoffman and his dancing hard-to-describe thing,
The Legendary Mr. Art Terry;
the toungue
Influences
Max Bialystock, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Mott the Hoople, Cab Calloway, Tex Avery, Nick Cave, Count Chocula, The Rutles, Gong, Barry Adamson, They Came From the Stars I Saw Them, Neil Young, Serge Gainsbourg, Skeleton Key, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weil, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Buzzcocks, Neil Young, Ennio Morricone, Antonin Artaud, Patti Smith, Dmitry Shoshtakovich, Ernie Kovacs, Quay Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of invention, Fats Waller, Lord Buckley, Moondog, Rasputin, various assasins of the 1960's, George Clinton and Funkadelic, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Alice Cooper, the Chicago Eight, Ojays, Spinners, Philly Soul, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Egon Schiele, Lee Scratch Perry, T-Rex, Hank Williams, Duke Ellington, Bob Marley, Charles Mingus, Outkast, Soundtrack to Hair, Sammy David Jr., the Grateful Fuckin Dead, Wm S. Burroughs, Pete Townshend, The Specials, Sufijan Stevens, Spititualized, Mercury Rev, Joana Newsom, Can, Kraftwerk, George and Ira Gershwin, the Pixies, Cardinal,
Super Furry Animals, Public Enemy, Igor Stravinsky, Biz Markie, Violent Femmes, Public Image Ltd., Tom Waits, the Banana Splits, The Byrds, Muddy Waters, John Zorn, Henry Mancini, Cat Power, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Howie Pyro, Danny and the Juniors, the Cramps, Charles Kaufmann's Films, Supergrass, Spike Jones, The Monkees, Black Sabbath, Carl Stalling, The Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Air, Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, Badfinger, Barry White, the Beach Boys, Black Grape, Jan Svankmeyer films, The Pink Floyd, Divine Comedy, Dr. John, Flamin Lips, Little Feat, Gnarls Barkley, Incredible String Band, The Pretty Things, Thelonius Monk, Monty Python, Jacques Brel, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Tenor, Joe Strummer, Velvet Underground, the Beat, Link Wray, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Richman, Julian Cope, Yes, 13th Floor Elevators, Nina Hagen, Regina Spektor, Nico, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, (girls in general arepretty spectacular lets face it), John Cale, David Bowie, Lambchop, Lemon Jelly, Haskell Wexler, Dennis Hopper, Mr. Bungle, Black Mountain, Leon Russell, The Polyphonic Spree, Gogol Bordello, Randy Newman, Rasputina, Rashaan Roland Kirk, the Residents, Richard Hell, Sparks, Robyn Hitchcock, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Scott Walker, Coen Brothers, Shangri-Las, Sigur Ros, Bob Dylan Beatles and the Stones.
Sounds Like
Review in MOJO Magazine January Issue by Andrew Perry
When did our capital’s rock scene last throw up a nonet? When, come to that, did it produce anything much besides Libertines wannabes and ‘’postpunk’? On both counts last man Standing are quite extraordinary. Their name derives from the embattled romantic life of their front man, Max Vanderwolf. As signposted by the album title, his lyrical world is one of disappointment and regret and unutterable sleaze, from which he emerges, song by song, bleary yet unbeaten. ‘’I’m so damnede depressed,” he yowls on the stomping Queen Kong, ‘’I just gotta rock’’. And rock his eight cohorts do, with a bredth of vision which encompasses the more ambitious end of glam (Aladin Sane, Bolans Zinc Alloy) and the cabaret splendour of Alex Harvey, even Tom Waits at his most theatrical. This blast of low-life pungency feels like a righteous breath of fresh air.
FOUR STARS ****
Review in UNCUT December issue by Gavin Martin
Max Vanderwolf’s band have a colorful ingenuity of Bowie’s 70’s floorshows and the wild spirit of Tom Waits- which means the are essentially rock theater, but with attitude. Stylisitically they cram a lot- sometimes too much- in, but the policy usually works. This collection of bedraggled songs duly incorporates the cabaret angst of ‘70s Lou Reed, dustbowl Mariachi, and Steely Dan cynicism. Their vision of wild-hearted losers, misfits and a world in collapse somehow holds everything together.
Where did it all go so wrong for Max Vanderwolf? When did he lose his faith
in love and goodwill? Why did he give it away so callously or casually ?
And what did he trade it in for? Some songs? Some words? Some memories
of a vaguely good time that will haunt him for his remaining years?
Considering the reaction to the debut album by his band Last Man Standing, 'False Starts and Broken Promises', it may have been a fair trade. The songs are memorable,
the lyrics powerful, and it sounds like he's stumbled down a colourful if crooked path.
"I thought, if I let these themes takeover the songs, maybe they would get
out of my life. I thought that by their very materialization as a song that
somehow I would be redeemed. I thought that I could give these problems
to you or you or you... Then I could report it all at a safe distance like
someone commentating from the sidelines of hell. But it didn't happen
that way."
Vanderwolf felt this darkness grow inside of him. And after several attempts at recording a new record, the New York-based songwriter gave up and slipped in and out of various forms of self-abuse. Various demo tapes circulated through the music community and they became well-known amongst the community of underground song-writers.
Robyn Hitchcock recalls, ‘’He was taking all the wrong stuff. Bagels with too many capers, cream-cheese with lox from the wrong side of Delancey. One morning I found him clutching his guitar on Broome St, staring vacantly into an empty cup of chicken noodle soup:
"What's up, Max?" I enquired
"Up? Up..." muttered Max as if he'd never encountered the word up before,
and had decided to take it for a walk. "Up? Up is down and back again"
He thrust his Telecaster towards me, then thinking better of it, slung it over his
shoulder and padded down into the subway. He grimaced and was gone.
I realized I hadn't offered him one of my antacids.
Poor Max - that finely tuned stomach would be the death of him. Yet his new
album was already advertised in Bleeker Bobs. Jon Fox had been playing the
shit out of on WNYU, and hopes were high.
But nothing more would come of it. Vanderwolf turned his back on music production
he left his hometown of New York City and moved to London in 2000 vowing to keep
his head out of the trappings of imagination but it wouldn't last long.
"Its a cycle. I'm a workingman. You could say I work in a factory. I work long hours and have responsibilities beyond my capabilities but I somehow hold it together. And then, I start to feel desperate and crazy and I think: this can't be it. There’s got to be something more. And the only healthy way to escape is to follow the dream, follow the music. Just write a little, just play a little, just record a little. Soon I'm 9-men strong ensemble. Personal standards must be met and the demands on ones purse and personal sacrifice must be justified with a plan for success- no matter how preposterous the plan is: Yes folks we're bringing back big band values and raw decadence and composerly electric sounds in 2007 single-handedly because I say so…. Then I go mad until
I crash and have to straighten myself out again with a dose of reality."
Thrusting himself back into a world of despair and obsessed with artistic endeavour Vanderwolf finds himself in rehab. In an attempt to maintain normalcy, he joins a rehab book club where he is immediately discovered by guitarist and former-pill popper, Chris Cordoba who has himself experienced the verisimilitudes of the music business: "His demo tapes were widely known to the few in-the-know that knew. They were the stuff of legend – well, sub-legend--or probably sub-sub legend. After a discussion on that weeks’ reading--Evelyn Waugh, I think it was, I asked him point blank: can I produce your next recording? He agreed immediately without knowing a thing about me. We dropped out of rehab that week and started on the record."
Soon the band was playing gigs to enthusiastic audiences. A regular fixture at
burlesque parties in London, the band was invited to perform at the Paradiso in Holland for the ‘’London Calling Festival’’, support slots with the Polyphonic Spree, Sparks, Violent Femmes, a tour with Bobby Conn, a slot with the White Stripes Festival in Hyde Park, a weekly residency at Madame Jojo's and festivals including Glastonbury, Lovebox Weekender, Secret Garden Party and Electric Picnic Festival in Dublin.
Now I'm in deep again," says Vanderwolf. " And I'm losing my mind…
everything must go. Sacrifice it all. Damn the torpedoes. March, soldier.
I can almost taste victory. Or is that nerve gas?
All this had led to a brave NY independent label stepping up and declaring that this record needs to be heard. Even better that had the guts, nerve and muscle to release for the first time in UK properly and for the first time ever in Europe. The band will support the release by touring the festival circuit with like-minded similarly depraved artists with the Launch of the Last Man Standing Saloon.
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