Shockabilly

Shaped in 1982 by guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, bass player Tag Kramer and drummer David Licht, Shockabilly created music that sounded as an unholy mix of the Electric Prunes and Karlheinz Stockhausen. They specific in outrageous cover variations – ‘Psychotic Response’, ‘19th Anxious Break down’, ‘Time Tripper’, ‘Crimson Haze’ – and in addition more obscure products by John Lee Hooker, John Fogerty and Syd Barrett. Once the song appears to be familiar, it offers the listener a thread which to suspend the energy trio-chaos where they enjoyed to indulge. Chadbourne’s history was in rock and roll, blues, past due 60s free of charge jazz and free of charge improvisation – he place everything into Shockabilly with a power and spleen that obtained a response from your more exciting post-punk audiences. Once they folded in 1985 Chadbourne, an influenced songwriter, pursued a single profession while Kramer, in addition to playing in B.A.L.L. and Bongwater, setup Shimmy-Disc, among the great radical rock and roll labels from the 80s and 90s.