Just a quickie (and sign of life!): I finally got around exploring Psychic TV, one of the spawns of Throbbing Gristle after they split up in 1981, and founded by Peter Christopherson and Genesis P-Orridge. PTV’s catalogue is HUGE and I had no idea where to start, so I bought the debut, Forcing the Hand of Change, figuring that’s as good a place as any. I knew some of their more trippy, acid house stuff that they did in the mid-eighties, and, well, wasn’t that impressed. However, FTHOC is pretty awesome. I’m pleasantly surprised. To give you an idea, here’s the song Catalan (from the FTHOC album), which was the soundtrack for a short film by Derek Jarman:
- Yep, that was the first song by Roky Erickson (official website & myspace) I’ve ever heard. It came up on Pandora on…wait a sec…I think a station tagged with Hawkwind. Awesome, awesome stuff and you know what bugs me? After snooping around on the Internets I discovered what a big deal the 13th Floor Elevators where back in the days! How come nobody told me? I mean, seriously, while I admit that I grew up in the middle of the old world, I am shocked. So I got my hands on some of his stuff and it’s fucking amazing, the album “The Evil One” by Roky Erickson and the Aliens, recorded after a prolonged stay in a mental institution, is an absolute keeper and on heavy rotation since I got my greedy claws on it. Also highly recommended is the documentary You’re Gonna Miss Me.
I have come across this video before quite a while ago and just started thinking about it last week. This got posted before, but it’s such a great story that I don’t mind posting it again. Be sure to check out the artists’ website, The Black Heart Gang.
For some reason I can’t post the video, so I have to point you forward towards the Vimeo page – sorry about that. Once I figure out how to post it here, I will.
I love that song – Hawkwind is one of my recent discoveries, even though they have been around for ages and, considering my musical preferences, I should’ve run into them way earlier. Come on, the first band Lemmy played in – how could I have missed that?
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