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Charles Gocher (1952-2007) RIP.
Charlie Gocher, the wild man and wise elder of Sun City Girls, passed away at the age of 54 on Feb. 19th after battling with cancer.
http://www.charlesgocher.org/
and
http://www.suncitygirls.com/news/
for more on those very sad news.
So, Djando, did you dig up Bright Surroundings, Dark Beginnings? I was listening to them last night. My spine is still tingling. A quote from here aptly summarises some of my feelings for this greatest of cult bands.
"For the miniscule number of people in the world who are interested in challenging, unusual music at all, they exist as a name to be dropped. Nowhere is this fact made more evident than in an online interview with pseudo-visionary singer-songwriter Will "Palace" Oldham, who brags that he and his Pavement pals recently recorded a song "in the Sun City Girls vein," yet offers no explanation as to what he means and isn't challenged by the interviewer. The following would have been a more appropriate reaction to Oldham's statement:
"Oh, really, Will, in the Sun City Girls vein? Does that mean the aggressive, Middle Eastern-influenced trio smashing one hears on their most well known record Torch of the Mystics amongst the lambada-crooning and mysto-poking? Did you turn the tape on and recite from the collected works of Adam Weishaupt while your pals destroyed a Thermos and whistled "I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee"? Or maybe you did an extended improvised piece of the kind found on Live From Planet Boomerang, 33,033 Cross-Dressers from the Rig Veda, or the live C.O.N. Artists LP? Or it coulda been you guys pulled off a vulgar, novelty-topical-political, Tuli Kufenberg/Chadourne blast like the SCG did on Horse Cock Phephner? Or maybe you all sat around and made like inbred hillbillies full of Rebel Yell, picking and grinning with banjos and whoops, just like Jack's Creek? Perhaps you guys did a movie score, like the SCG has done for the films Juggernaut, Dulce, and Piasa, Devourer of Men? Probably you took the easy way out and did shitty covers of "Fly by Night," "Sweet City Woman," "Love Train," "Who's That Lady," etc. like on Midnight Cowboys from Impanema. You could have done a heartfelt acoustic number, like "Eye Mohini" or "Borungku Si Derita." Of course, it also would have been in the "Sun City Girls vein" to record a theater piece, a drama involving a bored convenience store clerk, a forked-tongue immigrant, and a derelict, like the Napoleon and Josephine 7-inch. So which was it? You understand, Will- it's just for the sake of clarity." |
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