Twinkeyz

Even though the Twinkeyz played significantly less than ten concert events and only produced several singles and one obscure, Holland-only album, these were a substantial link between American punk/new wave as well as the birth of the California paisley underground. Created in Davis, California in 1977, the primary innovative mover in the music group was songwriter Donnie Jupiter, who remained with the group through numerous personnel changes. As the Twinkeyz had been an early on exponent from the American D.We.Y. new influx, placing out three singles independently brands in 1977 and 1978, in addition they retained obvious affects from ’60s psychedelia, Stones-ish rock and roll, as well as the Velvet Underground. The music group sometimes sounded just like a very much lighter variance of Lou Reed’s ethos, actually, having a nice sprinkling of technology fiction-ish lyrics and nods to pop tradition. Jupiter’s pretty straight-ahead rock music had been garnished by burbling psychedelic guitars and synths that appeared to be wanting to emulate the Mellotron bursts on ’60s albums just like the Moving Rocks’ Satanic Majesties Demand. The Twinkeyz just produced three singles, and their 1979 recording, Alpha Jerk, was just released inside a press operate of 1800 copies in Holland, however in their small amount of time these were an impact on music artists in the Davis region that later continued to try out in the Fantasy Syndicate, Video game Theory, and Accurate West. From their LP and singles, aswell as some previously unreleased live and studio room paths, was reissued in the Aliens inside our Midst compilation in 1998.