Re: (TV) Wildness, Moloch, Memphis, and Lee Baker

[SCOTT ALDRICH <scott.aldrich@worldnet.att.net>]

Moloch , good luck finding it, were an awesome hard-blues/boogie band from
Memphis on the Stax subsidiary, Enterprise, from 1969 to 1971 that boasted
guitarist Lee Baker, one of the greatest white boys to play the blues (he
was sadly murdered in his house in Arkansas along with his elderly aunt a
few years ago). Baker plays on Big Star's Third record, Sister/Lovers,
produced by his band-mate from Mud Boy & The Neutrons, Jim Dickinson. He was
a protoge of Memphis blues legend Furry Lewis, and often accompanied him
along with other luminaries such as Sleepy John Estes and Gus Cannon in the
legendary Memphis Country Blues Festivals of the late '60's. Robert Gordon
(Memphis music historian, not the 80's neo-rockabilly guy) writes all about
all of this great music in the book, "It Came From Memphis", which
originally came with a CD. The CD contains the song, "Cocaine Katy" by
Moloch, which was a one-off single put out by a tiny Memphis label after
their eponymous debut LP on Enterprise failed to do anything (a la the
non-success of Big Star on another Stax subsidiary from the same time,
Ardent). The single has a later incarnation of the band which has Busta
"Cherry" Jones on bass (of Talking Heads "Remain In Light" period.) It is a
nasty boogie song, think early ZZ Top meets the MC5 and you're there. Oh,
and Lee Baker's playing throughout the tune f-ing kills. Talk about unsung
guitar heros.

> From: eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:16:43 -0700
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Wildness
> 
> what or who were MOLOCH????
> that's a great fucking name for a band/artist & coupled with
> yr recommend, i wanna find it!
> 
> SCOTT ALDRICH wrote:
>> 
>> My vote for top manic freakout guitar goes to the MC5's "Thunder Road" live
>> French TV appearance (with a version of Kick Out The Jams into Empty Heart
>> by the Stones that will make lesser men shit the bed, and the most killer
>> version of "Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa", John Lee Hooker's "Motor City's Burning" is
>> pretty damn cool, too), and the whole "High Time" album, especially "Baby
>> Don't Ya", "Skunk (Sonically Speaking)" - must be heard to be believed -,
>> "Over And Over", "Poison", "Sister Anne" (this is genius), and
>> "Future/Now"...or, the whole album minus "Miss X". This is punk before punk,
>> metal that kills most other metal, and the most defiant guitar playing of
>> Kramer and especially Fred "Sonic" Smith.
>> 
>> Roy Loney's sleazy guitar on the Flamin' Groovies "Teenage Head" album is
>> the mac daddy, too.
>> 
>> Lee Baker's guitar on Mud Boy & The Neutron's "Money Talks" or Moloch's
>> "Cocaine Katy" is blues at it's most sick/evil. "I'm Gonna Booglarize You,
>> Baby" by Captain Beefheart (Zoot Horn Roll and two other guitarists) is in
>> the same vein.
>> 
>> Also I like Quine and Ivan Julian on CCR's "Walk On The Water". Beautiful.
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
>>> From: Noah Lopez <noahl@U.Arizona.EDU>
>>> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
>>> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:37:53 -0700 (MST)
>>> To: tv@obbard.com
>>> Subject: Re: (TV) Wildness
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'll second "Anthrax". I remember thinking that if I ever had the
>>> balls to play guitar, *that's* how I would want to sound. I hear
>>> the sounds of the guitars on that record, and I just start
>>> vibrating in pleasure.
>>> 
>>> Noah
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Ray wrote:
>>> 
>>>> how about "love like anthrax" or "at home she's a tourist" by the Gang of
>>>> Four for some top manic freak-out guitar???
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>
>>>> 
>>>>> Here I am sitting around on a wet Sunday afternoon going back through my
>>>>> record collection and I end up listening to an album from 1972 (yes, I'm
>>>>> old) by Patto, called, "Roll Em, Smoke Em, Put Another Line Out", which
>>>>> contains a track called "Loud Green Song" which has to be THE greatest
>>>>> manic freak-out piece of guitar noise ever (the late, great Olly
>>>>> Halsall).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unless someone has other nominations....?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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