It's been 50 years since Apache '65, the first LP by the Arrows, and Davie Allan has released TWO albums to commemorate this. He explained this in the interview I did with him the other day: he was working on the 50th Anniversary album and was worried that the people at Curb records were taking too long to clear the rights to those songs, so he went ahead and started working on King of the Fuzz. Then they ended up being ready simultaneously.
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Went downright nuts picking up instrumentals at the Ponderosa Stomp Record Show this weekend, so a HUGE amount of today's show will be vintage. But you can still expect to hear some new 13th Magic Skull, Twang-o-Matics, Night Birds, Compartmentalizationists, Die Krabben, Men from SPECTRE and more.
As for what I played last week
From what I'm gathering, "Cojonudo" translates to "ballsy", which I think explains the near-nude cover of this record. I say near-nude not because of the guitar, but because I think I spy the strap of his tighty-whities at his hip. Then I realized I was looking at this way too hard.
I was a big fan of Die Krabben's Welcome to Surf Trash Island released last year, even giving it a Gremmy honorable mention. Mining the Gyre has the same weirdo creepy surf-meets-Beefheart thing going on, with a few good instrumentals, a few essentially surf songs with a deep trollish voice grumbling out lyrics. It's kinda like if Reverend Beat-man had more of a surf angle.
And lucky for us, it's freeeee
On my radio show on Monday I got to spend a few minutes on the phone with Davie Allan of Davie Allan and the Arrows in advance of his first show ever in New Orleans this Sunday at Siberia.
We talked motorcycles or lack thereof, Mickey Mouse, and of course FUZZ GUITAR.
I've cut the interview out of the show so you can listen to it here
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