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She gave me little white pills and pushed a little too hard
„Juanita had a car and she liked the way I played guitar
She gave me little white pills and pushed a little too hard
Well my memory ain’t too exact but I saw some things that I can’t take back
Thirty days on the road is thirty days of livin hard”
NATURAL CHILD from Nashville, Tennessee, best country blues rock and roll for rockers and rollers and grimy punks and suburban cowboys
NEW ALBUM OKEY DOKEY OUT NOW
from the interview
„My mother sent me over to grandpa for something. Everybody was sleeping, except Willie Nelson (multiple Grammy winner country legend) . He was sitting in the garden and offered me his cigarette. I asked him: what is this? He said „God’s gift to the suffering people.”
Bands of RNR666
Until this day RNR666 has organized 126 shows, and 3 are coming soon. Here is the first part of a playlist series with 25 bands from our shows. You can find here garage-, glam- and noise rock, rock and roll, punk, hardcore country, shoegaze and metal music. Taste us!
1. I Love 69 Popgeju (Czech) – Ahoj (Intro) 2. Magnetix (Fra) – 60’s Ball 3. The Bloody Hollies (US)- I Dream Of Bees 4. Wildmen (Ita) – D.R.U.N.K. 5. Daikiri (Fra) – microncon 6. Vagina Town (Fra) – Ecstasy 7. Yussuf Jerusalem (Fra) – Through Winter’s Darkest Day 8. Davila 666 (Puerto Rico) – Si me vez… 9. Vaadaat Charigim (Isrl) – Haolam avad mizman 10. Acid Baby Jesus (Gr) – Who’s First 11. Haunebu (Hu) – Green Stove 12. Black Magic Six (Fin) – Homerun 13. TV Colours (Australia) – The Kids Are All Grown Up 14. Digital Leather (US) – SCREW 15. The Feeling Of Love (Fra) – I Want You (Ust Like An Ambulance) 16. Traumahelikopter (NL) – Losing Grip 17. Steam Engine (Hu) – Orphan 18. Pozvakowski (Hu) – Jasa 19. Monno (CH) – Defekt 20. Adam Bomb (US) – Kick It Out 21. The Goddamn Gallows (US) – Copper King 22. Movie Star Junkies (Ita) – I Love You More As Dead 23. Animal Trophies (Fra) – A Break 24. Piresian Beach (Hu) – Blood In The Gutter 25. Big Mountain County (Ita) – I’m Satisfied
On the top picture Magnetix in Budapest at RNR666 Party, 23.11.2008. Photo by Mark Martinko. More pics.
On the pic on the player The Goddamn Gallows in Budapest at RNR666 Party 21 July 2016. Pic by Márk Martinkó. More pics.
More some live shots. And more
Roy & The Devil’s Covers
We have been waiting for 11 years for this day: 26 SEPT 2016
Swiss psych garage blues rock and roll cult band
ROY AND THE DEVIL’S MOTORCYCLE
in BUDAPEST at RNR666 PARTY!
The band was founded 25 years back by three countryside brothers after they went to a Spacemen 3 show in the nearby big city. Their music is distorted rock and roll of the 50-60 years with a big spoon blues and dub technique in highly psychedelic manner. They’ ve only released 3 three albums on Voodoo Rhythm Records. In 2014 they made music for a documentary Tino – Frozen Angel about legendary Swiss counter-culture hero Martin „Tino” Schippert (1946-81), who was the president of Swiss chapter of Hell’s Angels. Because of a rape the Angels became a target of prosecution, he escaped from Switzerland. He lived in Lebanon, where he worked as a hashish farmer. But finally he went to Bolivia, and died there in a small village Tutilimundi, it means All Worlds.
On their albums there are some covers. Now you can listen to the original and the cover ones too
About the songs
Johnny B. Goode is a 1958 rock-and-roll song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry.
Little Anthony and the Imperials is an American rhythm and blues/soul/doo-wop vocal group from New York City, their first single was Tears on My Pillow in 1958.
The song It Hurts Me Too is a blues standard. First recorded in 1940 by American blues musician Tampa Red. Elmore James (1918 – 1963) who was an American influential blues musician, recorded his own versions in 1957, and in the early 60s.
David „Junior” Kimbrough (1930 – 1998) was an American juke joint blues legend. Whose first single was released in 1967, but his first album came out just in 1992 by Fat Possum Records. The song Baby Please Don’t Leave Me taken from his last album Meet Me In The City (1999). In 2005, a tribute album was released with such artists as Iggy Pop, Mark Lanegan, Jack Oblivian, Black Keys, Spiritualized or Blues Explosion. Even Daft Punk also made a 15 minutes long re-edited version of a Kimbrough’s song I Gotta Try You Girl in 2016. Reputedly he was survived by 36 children.
The Ballad of Casey Jones is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones. It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered a freight train ahead of them on the line, and Casey tried to stop the machine and save the passengers. His body was found lying under the cab, with his skull crushed and right arm torn from its socket. The fireman jumped just in time to save his life. The express messenger was thrown against the side of the car, having two of his ribs broken by the blow, but his condition is not considered dangerous. The train was only two minutes behind schedule.
Soon after Casey’s death (30 April 1900), the song was first sung by engine wiper and friend of Casey to the tune of a popular song of the time known as „Jimmie Jones”. As railroaders stopped in Canton, Mississippi they would pick up the song and pass it along. American country blues guitarist Walter E. „Furry” Lewis (1893 – 1981) recorded his version in 1928. Anyway he was a street sweeper for the city of Memphis, he held this job until his retirement in 1966.
Red Foley (1910 – 1968) is one of the greatest country musicians. He was an inspiration to rock ‘n’ roll, in particular Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, who both covered many of his songs. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is a popular Christian hymn, was written in 1907. The Red Foley version was published in 1958.
Hully Gully Neurasthénique
At the École des Beaux-Arts El’Blaszczyk was a student of Christian Eloy, the eminent composer of concrete music and head of the class of electroacoustic creation at the National Conservatory of Bordeaux
SO THE STYLE IS TOTAL BIZARRE ROCK N ROLL MINIMAL ELECTRO CLASH by
EL’BLASZCZYK ROCK BAND HIMSELF
feat. his early teenage sister SOFIA BELLINA
Among others El’Blaszczyk explores such topics as the French resistance during WWII, medicine and illness
The Quirky Lost Tapes 1993-1995 released on Born Bad Records (France)
Hey You, Sinners!
The Devils Sin, You Sinners! / Voodoo Rhythm Records (2016)
This why one loves Voodoo Rhythm Records (for this as well..): Every now and then they find a brand new, young, only locally known band, like this one band from Naples that formed in 2015 (last year in other word) and they release them on vinyl and CD – pick your format.
What kind of band names itself ‘The Devils’ in 2015? One that’s young, dumb ass, don’t give a damn, simple, self-confident, and one that gets to the point. Well, all these fit them I think. The fact that they got their name after the 1971 Ken Russel movie, The Devils, sheds some light on why these lovers are dressed as a priest and a nun. According to them, they grew up on blues and punk, and they listened to a bunch of underground bands such as The Cramps, Hound Dog Taylor, The Gories, Jon Spencer, Fugazi, Hasil Adkins, The Oblivians.
They recorded their LP in Montpellier with Jim Diamond (bassist of The Dirtbombs!!!) when Beat-Man happened to be in the area, and he signed them right away. And rightly. The Record. When I say 10 songs in 17 mins, you can already suspect there are no elongated intros, psychedelic parts, etc. Instead we have hysterical grind and FUZZZ orgy!!!! Brute and primitive, so much so as the 17 minutes seems more like 37, and you don’t really have any feeling you are missing anything.
The lyrics also follow this concept. The obsessed repeating of words and half sentences. “Onan came on the floor / the priest touched me harder” and that’s it. Or “This town once was wild / but now it’s drunk” repeated 15 times. The music is of course total trash rock n roll, but towards the end of the record there are some instrumental pieces, that – if you were to repeat them for 1-2 minutes – could go for a stoner song, similar to very early Kyuss. And sometimes they remind us of our Finnish brothers, Black Magic Six (also a duo). Great release, great band, I definitely feel we will see them on the RNR666 stage soon!
for rockers and rollers and grimy punks and suburban cowboys
weed tequila beer country blues rock and roll easy psychedelia Nashville Tennessee
NATURAL CHILD still among the bests
from new album Okey Dokey by Natural Child Records and Tapes in Sept.
RNR666 Natural Child interview in which a lot of old superstars appear,
even a Czech cartoon hero too.
Sin, You Sinners!
The Devils: Sin, You Sinners! / Voodoo Rhythm Records (2016)
Ezért szereti az ember a Voodoo Rhythm Records -ot (ezért is!)! Időnként előkapnak valahonnan egy vadiúj, fiatal, max helyi szinten ismert bandát, mint ezt a 2015 ben (írhattam vóna, tavaly) alakult nápolyi brutál duót, oszt kiadják bakeliten, cd-n. Kinek melyik a szimpatikusabb formátum.
Mégis milyen banda adja magának a ‘The Devils’ nevet 2015 ben? Hát, fiatal, hóthülye, beleszarós, egyszerű, magabiztos, lényegretörő. Na, ez mind igaz is rájuk, azt hiszem. Némileg árnyalja a képet, és megmagyarázza miért visel ez a szerelmespár papi ill. apáca öltözéket a színpadon, ha tudjuk, hogy a nevet az 1971- es Ken Russel film, az Ördögök után vették fel.
Elmondásuk szerint Blueson, punkon nevelkedtek, és egy rakás underground bandát hallgattak, olyanokat hogy: The Cramps, Hound Dog Taylor, The Gories, Jon Spencer, Fugazi, Hasil Adkins, The Oblivians. Hát ebbe a sorba nem nagyon lehet belekötni….
Na. Ez év februárjában vették fel a lemezt Montpellier -ben Jim Diamond -al (The Dirtbombs basszer!!!) midőn Beat-Man is éppen arra járt, és egyből szerződtette őket. Nagyon helyesen.
A lemez. Ha annyit mondok, hogy 10 szám 17 percben? Akkor már sejthető, hogy itt bizony nincsennek hosszú intrók, pszichedelikus elszállások, egyebek. Dara van, hisztérikus, mániákus tekerés és FUZZZZ orgia !!!!!! Primitív és durva. Annyira, hogy a 17 perc inkább 37 nek tűnik, és nem is nagyon van hiányérzete a hallgatónak.
A dalok szövege is ugyanezt a koncepciót követi. Szavak, félmondatok mániákus ismétlése. „Onan came on the floor / the priest touched me harder” oszt kész. Vagy „This town once was wild / but now it’s drunk” 15 ször egymás után…
A zene persze totál trash rock n roll, de a lemez vége felé van pár instrumentális szám, aminek egy-egy témáját ha mondjuk 1-2 percig ismételgetnék takaros kis stoner dal is lehetne belőle, mondjuk olyasmi mint a nagyon korai Kyuss. Ja, meg néha finn testvéreink, a Black Magic Six is beugrik (akik úgy szintén duoban nyomják).
Nagyon jó lemez, nagyon jó banda, határozottan úgy érzem, hogy látni fogjuk őket RNR666 színpadon hamarosan!
Pink Slip Daddy Does It Again
„Tell young teenagers the news, we got good hard rock”
Mick Cancer, Sal Mineo’s Only Son (aka Ben Vaughn), Barb Dwyer and Palmyra Delran are together
PINK SLIP DADDY
was a psychobilly punk band in Philadelphia from the late 80s up to 1995. Next year 12 Golden Country Greats was released by Ween with Ben Vaughn as producer.
The band was reformed in 2012, and in 2016 they have „returned to rock action with a vengeance, having recently played a string of calamitous live shows and a new 7” EP, a rollicking, raucous heartfelt celebration of the music of teen pop idol Fabian Forte, and the golden age of Philadelphia rock ‘n’ roll.”
Fabian’s music career lasted exactly so far while Elvis Presley as a sergeant of US 3rd Armoured Division served in Western Germany between 1959-60. A short film about Fabian, the manufactured idol.
But more important that here is a 7″ vinyl with 3 new songs on French label Kizmiaz Records. The first ones after 22 years
so PINK SLIP DADDY is a psychobilly punk band in Philadelphia again. And you can find some old songs on their soundcloud free to download
The Devils from the South-Italian Hell
Primitiva Primordiale Essentiale
THE DEVILS formed in 2015 in Naples. In the beginning they did countless shows in Italy DIY and France where they meet up with Jim Diamond from the DIRTBOMBS who recorded their first full Lenght album, the same day Reverend Beat-Man from VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS was in the same town and got their recordings and signed them up on the label.
Sin,You Sinners is an album with a huge wall of GUITAR FUZZ BLUES ROCKABILLY NOISE TRASH ROCK’N’ROLL TORNADO, vocals as Stupid and Minimalistic as it gets, this is NO BOB DYLAN POETRY, thats pure EVIL and Lots of Fun
T-REX FROM A TINY SPACE YOJOUHAN
NEW GUITAR WOLF ALBUM
T-REX FROM A TINY SPACE YOJOUHAN
SUPELSONIK LOK N LOLL
Guitar Wolf formed in Harajuku in 1987. The Goner Records in Memphis has been founded because Eric Oblivian wanted to release their first album in 1993.
Cassette on Burger Records (US)
inspired by heartbreak, mortality, and financial struggle
Monster Treasure is a punk noise rock band sometimes with a very little black metal feeling in Stockton, California. In its very early years in the middle of the 19th Century the city was called Mudville.
Their songs are inspired by heartbreak, mortality, and financial struggle
Debut album by Leisure & District Records (UK)
Some shows in UK in May
Thurs 19th – LONDON at The Old Blue Last with Living Hour (CAN)
Fri 20th – NORWICH at The Owl Sanctuary
Sat 21st – LONDON at The Lock Tavern, FREE ENTRY
Mon 23rd – LONDON at The Lexington with NOTS (US, Memphis, Goner Records)
A free download song from the debut album
30 years of The Monsters
This year The Monsters – the band of Reverend Beat Man, Voodoo Rhythm Record boss and his male club – turn 30 years old. To celebrate this nice round anniversary, they re-released their – by now totally unavailable – 1995 10”, originally released by the German Jungle Noise Records on CD and LP, supplemented by 7 more songs.
This was the first Monsters album where they used electronic bass instead of the double bass, and since their guitarist left the band, Beat Man remained alone at that position. So he distorted the hell out of his guitar. In addition the band decided that they will not deal with studios anymore, and record the whole album at home on an AKAI 1224 recorder, and that should be it!
This way, they nicely departed from the psychobilly sound of their first two albums, in a GOOD way, the RIGHT way, that is none other than the TRASH FILTH BRAIN-FUCKING PRIMITIVE ROCK N ROLL!!!
And on the occasion of this anniversary release, let me tell you a personal story.
Exactly 10 years ago in 2006 I found out that The Monsters will play in Graz. I told my – then girlfriend, now beloved wife:
– We are going!
– OK, but we hardly have any money.
– Let’s hitchhike! Budapest-Graz is not that far.
– OK.
To tell you the truth, none of us thought that we would ever hitchhike abroad for a concert; we were no teenagers, not even twenty-somethings, and we were over thirty. We had some pretty good rides though, the last one being an Italian owner of a sweets shop in a suit who was heading exactly to Graz to attend his new shop before its opening. He insisted that we visit his store too. We didn’t really feel like doing so, but said SURE. It was getting dark already by the time we got to the pastry shop, he opened the store, all three of us went in, he was explaining all kinds of things to us while everything was foiled up (there was some renovation going on), and this Italian guy in suit with a mustache. The whole thing was as we were in a gore movie, so I told my girlfriend, let’s get the hell out of here! We left our guy there and stepped outside to the street, and who was walking across the street? The Monsters! Of course we told them right away that we are their fans from Budapest and we are heading to the concert! A magnificent moment, I will never forget: Marta all smiley, hugging Beat Man and padding his shoulder. And him, being a gentleman, offered to take us in to the concert. Danke Schön! This way we could also buy some records.
The concert was extra super, both of us had quite some vodka, and the whole audience was really getting into it, dancing and so on. Everything was just wonderful except for the one manager who discovered us sleeping in behind one of the speakers after the concert, and kicked both of us out. Afterwards things became a bit torturous; going through the trash early morning at the railway station (I found a handful of unopened chocolates – though melted) as while dancing during the show I managed to lose all our sandwiches that were in our pockets. Then we came across an old (Hungarian!) gypsy who advised us to go back through Wien. Then we were on the train from Graz to Budapest in the morning, no tickets of course, trying to hide from the conductor till we are in Hungary, then my good ole trick with the conductors there, and we are already at home. True, it was tiring, but it was worth it! And I am not only saying this after 10 years, but also when we got home back then, and opened up our first beer in the kitchen.
Here are two little videos from this concert:
And now a few words about the album. How would a record be like that starts out with ‘Psych-out with me’? Awesome! Brutal party R n R! Then the song ‘Searching’, hard as Venom; then pot hymn ‘Pot’, then one of my favorite, ‘It’s not my way’, perfect fast pogo punk song!!! And damned be whoever’s legs don’t start moving after listening to ‘The Rock around the tombstone’ – he or she is hopeless! Then a fucking great Rolling Stones cover, ‘Play with fire’, and so on. Oh yeah, and all bonus tracks are also great! It’s worth keeping in mind that this brutal rock n roll record was recorded and put out during 94-95!
Note: Today it is worth to follow Voodoo Rhythm’s own Instagram page, where you can continually discover such treasures like this photo down here:
So a lot of things were trendy during the 90s, but a record sounding like this surely wasn’t! On one side all the Seattle rip-offs were going on, techno and all kinds of electronic dance music was coming in, and everyone was trying to figure out how to force together genres that were completely different from each other. On the other hand only people who really knew and liked the Ramones and Moorhead were wearing their t-shirts, even if they could not pronounce their names correctly (Motorhead or Matorhid were in quite widespread usage, and I for one did not know a single soul that pronounced the Ramones Ramonz vs Ramonez). Of course back then I did not even hear about The Monsters.
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