Showing posts with label Cleveland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cleveland. Show all posts

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Human Switchboard - I Gotta Know / No!


Here's an aggressive garage-punk single by Human Switchboard on Clone Records from 1978.

The first cut "I Gotta Know" is a hip take on 60's garage rock with farfisa screeching all over, twinkling xylophone and cooing female backup vocals "lalala-ing" in the background as Bob Pfeifer does his best Van Morrison era Them/Mick Jagger swagger on the microphone.

The second cut "No!" is where its at: threatening tempo, biting-sneering vocals, grinding guitar, hand claps and one hell of a negative attitude. Has a whole different tone to it if you know what Mr. Pfiefer was arrested for... but otherwise one of my personal favorites from Ohio. A real burner. It's a shame "No!" isn't included on their anthology released on Bar-None last year (if you bought the cd you could get the download of it?). So you see this 7-incher snatch it up! Highly recommended, and fantastic to play to people just to see them do the "this is from Ohio?" stink face.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Foreign Bodies

The late great guitarist Jim Jones (Mirrors, Pere Ubu, Easter Monkeys, Home and Garden) is the mastermind behind Cleveland's Foreign Bodies screeching-skronkin, post-punk-funk, disco madness. Their one and only 7in released on Bizart Records.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

LIFE STINKS!

First post of the new blog. I'm here to explore and post all things Rock & Roll from Ohio's past and the weirdness in between. What better way to kick this baby off then to listen to all versions of the late Peter Laughner's "Life Stinks"? Don't know any of these musicians yet? ( I'm sure you know at least one dude). Don't worry! Keep checking back for more updates.

Peter's original drunken guitar scraping version:



Rocket From The Tomb's live melt down version:



and Pere Ubu's spazz version:

BONUS: Rocket from the Tombs Rocket Redux Version:


Which is yer favorite?