bio AMG

To look at the career of the Scientists is, in essence, to look at the career of Kim Salmon, one of the most vibrant musical talents to emerge from Australia in the 1970s. Not that he was the only one. Nick Cave, for example, may have made more of a splash outside of the country, but Salmon is arguably just as important ? if not more influential. His first group, formed in 1976, was the Cheap Nasties ? which already gives some indication of his distinctive “trash” aesthetic (? la the Trashmen, the Ramones, etc.). The Nasties were the first punk band to emerge from the remote city of Perth in Western Australia. Salmon has claimed they really weren’t much good, but they did give birth to the Perth punk scene ? from which many of Australia’s finest musicians would emerge. When the Nasties came to an end the following year, Salmon went on to join the Invaders. The Scientists rose from the ashes of this (also unrecorded) band in 1978. The lineup included Salmon on guitar and vocals, Boris Sujdovic on bass, Rod Radalj on guitar, and James Baker, from the Victims, on drums and lyrics. Membership in the Scientists would mutate several times over the years (Dennis Byrne, for instance, would soon assume bass duties). (more…)

fat possum bio

When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born.

It’s my own personal style, see,” Log says, “the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.” (more…)

Nomeansno: but Yes means Yes

by Kortney Jmaeff (April 2003)

When uttering the words “Best Canadian Power Trio”, most plebian Canucks would primarily envisage Rush. For my money, however, the throaty bellows, funky distorted bass lines and battle-axe guitar choppings of Nomeansno slay Geddy’s cat-in-in-a-lawnmower vocals, cheesy magniloquent synthesizers, sci-fi dungeon and dragon ramblings any day of the week.
For over two decades, Victorian trio Nomeansno have journeyed the globe, recorded over 10 albums, and spawned a cult side group, the Slapshot and the Ramones inspired Hanson Brothers. A band that has the tenaciousness to cover both a Ramones and a Miles Davis song on the same release deserves a scrupulous perusal. (more…)

Bassholes AMG

In the wake of the 1992 demise of the posthumously-fabled Gibson Bros., three bands that were to define the garage rock and blues music underground emerged ? Bassholes, ’68 Comeback, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Of these outfits, Bassholes remained closest to the rural isolated vision of traditional American folk-blues while simultaneously taking the sound the furthest from traditional rock & roll. (more…)

Pri?a je ponovo ispri?ana

Mesje D?efri Evans i Bassholes
18. 2. 2005.
Akademija
Autor: ?ikica Simi?

Ve?e pod nazivom The Real Rock’n’Roll Festival, koje je u no?i izme?u petka i subote ljubiteljima rudimentarnog roka priredio klub Akademija, bilo je vrlo uspe?no. Ameri?ki gosti Mesje D?efri Evans i sastav Bassholes su se za to pobrinuli.
Oni su dobro selekcionisanu i vrlo distingviranu publiku podsetili na ono ?to ona manje-vi?e zna, ali u ?ta je, pod naletom agresivnih i bezobraznih lokalnih medija, po?ela da sumnja: rokenrol je amalgam elektri?ne struje, ose?anja isku?enih u grani?nim ?ivotnim situacijama, ritma, gneva i odmetni?tva. Ni?ta vi?e i ni?ta manje. (more…)