here’s th' thing ..from this side o the tracks. Call this noise ..and be kinda obvious. A fart is noise (with a bad scent) and a brisk soft inhale and a sigh is a noise with a pulse. Try’n picture the scene. Affluent aggravated- aggregate sons of alpha-D-mohair-suited-shakers———be they a ballplayer or a tone-breaker as it were, have a notion to lay some beats out there in the general vicinity of Main St. L.A. and so they pool their finances, load up on amps & LSD & Marlboro Reds & instruments & make Fuck YOU FUCK YOU no fuck YOU into a mantra for the precursor to pay-to-play generation, and then go about being The Boomtown Rats of backstreet aristocrat soCal piss & puke Marmaduke? & who don’t get that? Here’s a bass guitar. You got a black boy’s rhythm (& a wicked sense of melody/no-melody), so funk a drive beat or be gone big dog. Here’s a Strat, some quasi-tuned medium strings, 3 chords & 2 licks; chunk & scream. Here’s a jay some skins & sticks, jack off at about the same pace as the bass & sift off the overflow o these other blood’s friendlier tarts, while I use this nasty voice that my ol’ man didn’t pay to have gifted. And let’s see how many dweebs we can kill.

Finding this anything but a perfect example of going with but against the grain of that epic last place & time is maybe denying the joy of evolution. Probably it’s kinda semi-embarrassing for the likes o David as well. Like that very 1st time when you mad-dash came in a surprised girl’s hand and had to choose between the shrinking into yourself or the manning-up to do it again until you start to get it right, so this li’l girl don’t have to go home frightened of HER next time? To be honest, the bass does sound pretty- cool doesn’t it? I mean, come on. ..The “noise” is fitting for the venues. Who really gives a shit about the front-man at the time. He pro’ly had the most money & the best hook-up. The use of arrangement space here is fascinating, no? & the fact that they schlepped their “noise” in thru & back out the 4-fisted alley fracas entrance AND pissed-off most everybody they came in contact with suggests that even then there was a kind of creative integrity taking precedence over oop bloodborn means and the A&R mass- marketing scene ...A sign of things to come