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KILLBONOCLUB # 4
“I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity – through him all things fall.”
Hello everyone. On the pic is Europ Europ, and here’s the 4th historical KILLBONOCLUB broadcast
just a colorful mix of songs from the best new records
with some notes about the songs and some quotations from German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nitzsche’s work Thus Spoke Zarathustra because of Laibach’s new album is based on that book – instead of they would have made their own version of Hair.
“The creator seeks companions, not corpses – and not herds or believers either.
The creator seeks fellow-creators – those who grave new values on new law-tablets.”
punk punk punk. for the lovers of axemen, butthole surfers, fall, country teasers, fat white family. büdösök, i love 69 popgeju, csermanek ltp and this kind of shit. original sound!!! nothin fuckin remastering!!! with extra tracks, e.g:
ERRATIC (US) – from EAT HOT LEAD 1980 album reissue – Black Gladiator Records (US)
“They have something of which they are proud. What do they call it, that which makes them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguishes them from the goatherds.”
i dont know why miranda sex garden comes to my mind, but it is totally different
BAMBOO (UK) – THE DARGON FLIES AWAY album – Upset The Rhythm (UK)
scotch psychedelic horseshit
LUSH PURR (UK) – CUCKOO WALTZ album – Song by Toad (UK)
“O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!” “Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.”
punk blues soul rock and roll noise by lamont thomas, drummer of bassholes
OBNOX (US) – NIGGATIVE APPROACH album – 12XU (US)
good ol andre willimas, pure genius, just fine songs about fucking
ANDRE WILLIAMS (US) – DONT EVER GIVE UP purple vinyl LP – Pravda Records (US)
“The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all — is called „life.” Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft — and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves.”
shit and shine + butthole surfers + drain. csühes said „i cant find words…”, hercule poirot said „terrible”
USA/MEXICO (US) – LAREDO album on 12XU (US) and Riot Season (UK)
new wave electro disco and other noises in the Aussie 80s
ASPHIXIATION – WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED DISCO? – 1981 album reissue – Chapter Music (AUS)
free will is a bullshit – cynic rock and roll by
CHAIN AND THE GANG (US) – THE BEST OF CRIME ROCK album – In The Red Records (US)
“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
pale pink disco queen of sweden
MOLLY NILLSON – IMAGINATIONS album – Night School Records (UK)
fine stupid primitive synth punk
11. TONY PRICE (CAN) – I PREFER COCA-COLA cassette – Burger Records (US)
little frenchy psych rock and roll, swiss, just not from the voodoo rhythm, if you are lucky enough to know roy and the devil’s motorcylcle then you know what i say
HARVEY RUSHMORE & THE OCTOPUS – A NIGHT album – A Tree In A Field (CH)
“The greatest events – they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.”
indie pop hit song of the day
COURTNEY BARNETT (AUS) – HOW TO BOIL AN EGG 7″ – Milk! / Bedroom Suck Records (AUS)
“You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!”
hyper normalization by
IAN MARTIN (NL) – RITES OF PASSAGE 12″ EP – Goiland Elektro (NL)
punk punk punk. for the lovers of axemen, buttholesurfers, fall, country teasers, fat white family. büdösök, i love 69 popgeju, csermanek ltp and this kind of shit. with extra tracks – original sound!!! nothin fuckin remastering!!!
PUKE SPIT & GUTS (US) – EAT HOT LEAD 1980 album reissue – Black Gladiator (US)
sardinia rockers
THE RIPPERS (ITA) – A GUT FEELING album – Slovenly Recordings (US)
“Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.”
experimental industrial noise block
“The man looked up distrustfully. „If you speak the truth,” said he, „I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.”
SONGS FROM THE HEART
album by EUROP EUROP (Norway) – Enfant Terrible (NL)
APROPOS OF THE WET SNOW
album by ZOSIMA (Austria) – Enfant Terrible (NL)
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.”
the dark side of the earth
LAIBACH (Slovenia) – ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA album – Mute (UK)
“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”
the western side of the wall
DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS (German) – „DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS” 1982 album reissue – Superior Viaduct (US)
just drum’n’organ
ARCHIE AND THE BUNKERS (US) – free song form the next album on Dirty Water Records (UK)
A date with Elvis by Giovanni Ripper
„Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”
and /or listen to KILLBONOCLUB # 3
Andre Williams 80
„If you go fuck three girls in one week, you fuck all three of them good! You know what I mean? If you do a song, put you heart in it! Don’t come up with no bullshit lyric! Come up with the real lyric! If the word is „Take it out, let me see it”, then say it! Don’t say stuff like „Ooh, you look kinda mysterious to me.” That ain’t sayin’ the same damn thing!”
ANDRE WILLIAMS is a wonder. Not just because of his oeuvre, but also because he is not just alive, but active up to this date. He made many songs in various styles as rock and roll, blues, soul, funk, rap or garage rock, and not just for himself. In the first chapter of his career he worked together e.g. Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner, George Clinton and more. In the second chapter which started in late 80s he worked with Jon Spencer, and members of such garage rock bands as The Oblivians, Dirtboms or Gories. Yestarday our black godfather turned into his 80th.
His career has started with a fraudulent enlistment in 1950. When he was 14 he joined the US Navy with his brother’s birth certificate, because the age limit was 17. But not long after this his brother got drafted.
I’m moving marines on the USS Compton Destroyer from shore to a hospital ship, under fire every fuckin’ night! Boom! Boom! I’m a trainee on the 40 mm. Fifteen motherfuckin’ years old, OK? These motherfuckers fly me back to Washington, give me a general Court Martial and send me to the penitentiary for a year! Fraudulent enlistment! On the Court Martial board, I’m sitting with five fuckin’ admirals. All stiff, bold, big motherfuckers, you know.
My lawyer said „Send this kid home, he’s a child!” Then they came back and said „One year in Fort Levenworth, and a dishonourable discharge” and I said [adopts slow dramatic tone] „Kiss-my-ass-mother-fuckers!” So they appealed the case and they sent me back from Fort Levenworth after 6 weeks for a retrial. I go back on the retrial, thinking they gonna cut me-a-loose. Them cocksuckers made the year stick and give me a bad conduct discharge. All they did change was the discharge. You get a red corduroy coat, a Ben Hogan cap, a pair of black pants, twenty five dollars and a train ticket with your choice of destination.
He didn’t go back to Chicago. He feared that would be send to a reformatory school, so he went to Detroit. It was a Tuesday when he arrived. There he found a theatre where on every Tuesday evening was a talent show. 25 USD was the first prize. Afternoon he wrote his first song and won. And next week won again, and then again and again, and finally got a contract from a little record label Fortune Records. His break trough hit was the „Bacon Fat” in 1956. He said about
When I came up with „Bacon Fat” I was travelling from Detroit to Memphis. That’s when I knew that I had to come up with a gimmick. So I stopped in Memphis and I got an egg and bacon sandwich – on toast! I’m driving and a lot of places where we used to travel, it was only a two lane highway so you’d see the cotton pickers on both sides and I’m driving and [starts tapping a beat on his thigh, starts humming] „Down in Tennessee… and the name of the dance is…” and I had the sandwich in my hand and there it came, „The Bacon Fat!”
He was there when Motown came alive, and also produced recordings for another little label Chess Records (Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf). Worked together with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gay, The Contours, The Supremes, Ike and Tina Turner, Edwin Starr, Parliament, Funkadelic and many more. But in the 80s he slipped into poverty because of his alcohol and drug addictions, and even he lived as a homeless in Chicago too. His comeback album „Directly From The Streets” in 1990 refers to this tract. It was a funk rap album. Since then he made many fantastic albums with different bands and musicians, for example:
soul band The Diplomats of Solid Sound, jazz-funk-rock band Morning 40 Federation under pseudonym The New Orleans Hellhounds, Canadian country rock and roll band The Sadies, Chicago garage rock band The Goldstars, members of The Oblivians, Dirtboms, Dirty Three, Crime & City Solution, Cheater Slicks, Gories and same ones.
This is his greatest hit. Originally it was written for The Five Du-Tones in 1963.
His brand new album released this summer on Bloodshot Records
Quotes from this interview
Our Black Godfather Is Here Again
bad motherfucker wanna go back to Detroit
where his career has started in a talent show at his age of 15 right after he was bad conduct discharged from US Marine Corps because of fraudulent enlistment in 1951.
New album I Wanna Go Back To Detroit in June by Bloodshot Records. Full of low-end heavy funk. With guitarists Matthew Smith (Outrageous Cherry, Rodriguez) and Dan Kroha (Gories, Demolition Doll Rods), with drummer Jim White (Dirty Three, Cat Power) and more.
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Q: Speaking of Jewish people, we hear you are a recent convert to Judaism. How did that come about?
AW: Well, I met a lady who I like real well and she’s from the Naftali tribe, she’s Jamaican. She’s a lawyer and she said „Well, Andre. If we gonna do something, you’ve gotta skin down!” [Laughs]
Q: Was it err.. painful?
AW: Well, it was an experience! I went to the doctor’s office and more in his best interview ever
Our Black Godfather & Our Black Cousin
One year in penitentiary and bad conduct discharge was the sentence of Navy’s Court Martial in the fraudulent enlistment case of 15 years old Andre Williams, who was born in 1936, Alabama. „Kiss-my-ass-mother-fuckers!” was his response. Right after his discharge he went to Detroit with 25 dollars in his pocket. The day of the coming he entered for a talent show, afternoon wrote a song and won. His first hit was Bacon Fat in 1956 on Fortune Records
Then he worked with Motown Records as a producer too. Wrote and recorded songs together with Stevie Wonder, The Contours, Ike & Tina Turner and more, and also wrote some songs for Parliament and Funkadelic. In the 80s he became a homeless because his hard r’n’b lifestyle. He came back with a rap album in 1990. Since he has made amazing albums in various style: garage rock, blues, country, funk and soul. These were released such labels as In The Red, Bloodshot or Norton Records.
One of his early songs, Jailhouse Blues from 1958 has been covered by Obnox (aka Bim Thomes, drummer of blues punk band Bassholes)
The new Obnox album Boogalou Red is coming this month on 12xU Records (US). Gospel trash
Obnox on RNR666
Happy Birthday Andre!
One of the greatest performer ever, our black godfather, Andre Williams is 77 today!
Good health, fat backs and corn liquors!
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