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a full audio account of the
bands evolution from
psychedelic acoustic blues soundscapes to techno
punk mayhem, & all points in-between!
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.oddities
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the majority of the band's
tracks evolved from recordings of the band jamming
in various locations, the best of which were learnt
from the jam tapes, here's some of the one's that
got away!!
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the black buddha band would
like to thank:
stuart kingdon, dave simmons, lawrence hyne, carl
& keri,
ian maycock, plymouth musicians co-operative (especially
'fudge)', andrea lilley, darren smith(spunky), the
cooperage (dot & lyne),
NUB sound.... rickkeeey!!!!!, rob congdon, simon
hackworthy
& anyone else we may have forgotten to mention
who was there & helped make it happen &
yes....
it DID happen !!!!!!!!!!
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breaking
the devon sound barrier
Over the past couple of years, the
band have evolved from an acoustic trio to the band before
us tonight. At first the music is fairly light with Jimmy's
gentle rambling Morrison-esque lyrics skimming the surface.
And then BANG, suddenly it sirens the eardrum. The same
panic which spontaneously sent people fleeing into their
air-raid shelters in the early forties has been instigated.
But you just stand there, floored, as heavy guitars skate
erratically across a lake of burning techno.
This is scary shit. The lead singer is slinking around the
stage like the bastard son of Julian Cope (a mantle handed
down from Jim Morrison via Iggy Pop), and you feel like
you are sharing a sofa with Pete Murphy from the Maxwell
Tape ad, armchair swept clean across the room by sheer force
of his stereo.
Named
after a variety of LSD, the Black Buddha Band are obviously
no strangers to the subject of drugs. "The whole drug
situation is one which is inevitably frustrating for anybody
who is prepared to think for themselves." A quick poke
at society's hypocrisy leads him to the condemnation, "They
don't stop people going off into the highlands of Scotland
mountaineering. It is their right as an individual to go
up there and risk their lives in pursuit of happiness. When
you have got someone who looks smart, intelligent and educated
doing something that risky everyone assumes that they have
weighed up all the risks and have full control of the situation.
If someone looks as if they are not able to financially
provide for themselves then suddenly they need to be looked
after in a moral sense and that's not only unfair but quite
insulting."
Just talk to Jimmy about his taste in music and you can
see where his influences lie. A predominant listener of
drum 'n' bass, he's also influenced by The Doors,
Hendrix and the Stone Roses. "The groove
that the Stone Roses could create was almost trip-hop, rolling
along with everything just sitting on top of it." The
artists he reels off aren't all from the same genre, but
they've all got one thing in common. An intensity that would
send the spice girls running for daddy.
"I really like a lot of early Elvis," he
enthuses, "I think Nick Cave is a warped Elvis
Presley. Where Elvis would have gone if he had got into
drugs in the real sense. If he'd just lost it instead of
blobbing out. We are much more at home making people feel
uneasy than we are making people feel good," he quips.
The bands next recording is, Jimmy promises, "going
to be very intense and extreme but on a more psychedelic
level. It'll be totally in your face. It's going to sneak
up behind you and cut your throat." Tension rifts the
air, it's already happening on stage tonight.
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