Tag Archives: 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 …

A seemingly endless — and endlessly eclectic — group of produces produced the innovative guitarist Eugene Chadbourne among the underground community’s most well-known and well-regarded eccentrics. Created January 4, 1954 in Support Vernon, NY, Chadbourne grew up in Boulder, CO, by his mom, a refugee from the Nazi loss of …

Drummer David Licht co-founded the Klezmatics in NYC in the past due ’70s. An associate of the renowned groupings Shockabilly and Bongwater, he also performed with Ned Rothenberg, John Zorn and Tom Cora in the first ’80s. Various other collaborations consist of: composing for choreographer Karen Heifetz, and executing with …