Wild Seeds

Influenced by ’80s post-punk greats just like the Fleshtones, Desire Syndicate, and Gun Golf club, Tx music writer Michael Hall shaped the rootsy pop Crazy Seed products in 1984, around the cusp of Austin’s very much ballyhooed “Fresh Sincerity” period. With Hall on lead vocals and acoustic guitar, People from france Acres (ex-Norvells) on drums, Russell Sanchez (ex-Skank) on bass, and Phil Reed on acoustic guitar, the band started playing celebrations and night clubs and quickly discovered a location among likeminded functions like the Accurate Believers, Doctor’s Mob, and Zeitgeist. After changing Sanchez with Julia Austin, the group released its debut, Existence Is usually Grand (Lifestyle in Soul Town), a 12″ EP for the Aznut Music label. Marked by jangly guitars and tough harmonies, the record found compliment from such renowned critics as The Community Voice’s Robert Christgau. Upon building themselves for the indie touring circuit, Hall and business signed with the neighborhood Jungle imprint, which released the full-length Daring, Clean & Reverent in 1986. Commonly thought to be Crazy Seeds’ defining discharge, the record, offering the revamped lineup of Hall, guitarist Bo Solomon, drummer Joey Shuffield, and bassist Steve McCracken, drew however more kudos through the press. Accenting the group’s pioneering alt-country strategy, the record can be graced by warm textures of acoustic guitars, and paths just like the Gary Cooper tribute “Pure Center” are among its features. The band continuing to create its name on the highway, eventually putting your signature on with major 3rd party Passport Information. The eventful season of 1987 noticed the departure of Solomon (changed by Randy Franklin of F-Systems and Austin punk forebears Position Waves), combined with the addition of vocalist Kris McKay as well as the release from the record Mud, Lays & Shame. Including the amusing university radio strike “I AM SORRY, I Can’t Rock and roll You FOREVER Long,” the discharge went on to market almost 25,000 copies — a substantial quantity for an indie documenting in the past due ’80s. Regrettably, Passport proceeded to go bankrupt the next year, acquiring the momentum of Dirt, Lies & Pity with it. Despite its users’ apparent dismay, Crazy Seeds continuing to tour in to the weeks that adopted before phoning it quits in 1989. Michael Hall continued release a a critically hailed string of single albums, aswell as record one recording with fellow Austin songsters Walter Salas-Humara and Alejandro Escovedo beneath the name from the Setters in 1993. In 2001, Aznut released a Crazy Seeds retrospective, I AM SORRY, I Can’t Rock and roll You FOREVER Long: 1984-1989.