Shockabilly "Vietnam" recorded 1984 re mastered 2008
Shockabilly was a band which couldn’t be “genre-fied” and which included guitarist/vocalist Eugene Chadbourne, and Shimmy Disc founder Mark Kramer(known more commonly as simply Kramer) on vocals and bass, “cheap organ” and other instruments. Shimmy alum David Licht handled percussions. Licht played on many Shimmy projects during the 80’s and early 90s when the label folded due to the breakup of Kramer’s band Bongwater and the subsequent lawsuit over royalty disputes with former partner Ann Magnuson. Kramer and Chadbourne also split for for royalty dispute and creative differences. Kramer once called Chadbourne “the second best guitar player in rock history behind Jimi Hendrix…”
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What used to be a passable organ vignette in Lennon-McCartney’s original, flares up here on off-pastoral acoustic guitar, guiro and woodblocks. An appropriately wavy electric guitar washes up 5 ascending chords. Nonsensical tapes intersperse this alleged bliss with male voices and passing single engine planes. Finally Chadbourne enters his trademark, hyper-active improvisation mode, abusing his acoustic guitar until the end.
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