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

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

One cool story about Moloch, the song, Cocaine Katy, the author Robert
Gordon recalls the song being played by a guest police officer in his high
school health class as an example of demonic drug deranged behavior.

Scott

> From: SCOTT ALDRICH <scott.aldrich@worldnet.att.net>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:23:00 -0400
> To: <tv@obbard.com>
> Subject: Re: (TV) Wildness, Moloch, Memphis, and Lee Baker
> 
> 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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