BEASTS OF BOURBON Axeman LP Scientists Hoodoo Gurus kbd

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BEASTS OF BOURBON
 " The Axeman's Jazz "

1985 original 1st U.S. Pressing vinyl 12" LP DEBUT on Big Time Records
Big Time America 001

   Now twenty four years old and a classic collectible rarity!  The debut LP, recorded in one afternoon for allegedly $100!
Tex Perkins of The CRUEL SEA with bandmates James Baker of HOODOO GURUS, Kim Salmon of THE SCIENTISTS, Spencer P. Jones of THE JOHNNYS, kickin' up an amazing swamp of indie gothic alt-country sounds, similar in sound to GUN CLUB

 


VINYL TRACKLIST:
A1             Psycho  
A2           Evil Ruby
A3           Love And Death
A4           Graveyard Train     Written By - John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival / CCR
A5           Good Times   Written By - Nobody's Children
B1           Drop Out
B2           Save Me A Place
B3           Lonesome Bones
B4           The Day Marty Robbins Died
B5           Ten Wheels For Jesus


NM- vinyl
EX+/NM- cover



   DISCOGS:
 Label:
Big Time Records (America) Inc.
Catalog#:
BTA 001
Format:
Vinyl, LP
Country:
US
Released:
1985
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Blues Rock, Garage Rock, Indie Rock

Artwork By - Tex Perkins
Bass - Boris Sujdovic
Drums - James Baker
Guitar - Kim Salmon , Spencer P. Jones
Photography - Tom Takacs
Recorded By - Tony Cohen
Vocals - Tex Perkins

WIKI / All Music

Beasts of Bourbon were an Australian alternative rock band formed in 1983, with a line-up that has changed as the band splintered and reformed several times. Although they received limited commercial success, they are critically acclaimed. They helped define Australian swamp rock.

The group were thrown together by vocalist Tex Perkins to fulfill a booking his previous band, Tex Deadly and the Dum-Dums, could no longer make. The band began playing together in small venues in Sydney. The initial version of the group included Spencer P. Jones of The Johnnys, Boris Sudjovic and Kim Salmon of The Scientists and James Baker of Hoodoo Gurus. Recruited in large part because they were often found in the Southern Cross, an inner-city Sydney bar, these members form what is considered by some to be the 'classic' line-up. This lineup was featured on the band's first album, The Axeman's Jazz, recorded in 1984 in a single afternoon for one hundred dollars by Tony Cohen. The album was an excursion into deranged Gothic country and western, with a strong sense of irony and irreverence toward country music's clichés. A cover of "Psycho" was a hit on alternative radio. Although the album became an underground success, the band continued, for the time being, to be a side project for its members until 1988.

The Beasts of Bourbon grew from being a side project to become a true supergroup of the Australian pub rock scene. The original line-up fell apart in 1984 when the Scientists left Australia to tour overseas; fill-ins included Stu Spasm of Lubricated Goat and Brad Shepherd of Hoodoo Gurus. When both the Johnnys and the Scientists fell apart, however, the original line-up reunited in 1987, to record another album, Sour Mash in 1988. The swamp-rock of The Axeman's Jazz had given way to a fusion of blues-based pub rock and punk with great effect. Black Milk, recorded in 1990, expanded on this idea.

The band grew particularly confident and powerful while touring Europe on the back of Sour Mash and grew in popularity. In 1991, Baker and Sujdovic left to be replaced by Brian Hooper and Tony Pola - the bassist and drummer of Kim Salmon's new band, The Surrealists. This line-up recorded the highly popular album The Low Road in 1991. The band disintegrated in Europe while touring to support the album.

A double album of live tracks and rarities, titled The Belly of the Beasts - Live '91 & '92 and Sh*t We Didn't Put Out the First Time was released to mark the group's ten years together, and the group toured extensively in support of the album. Following the tour, it appeared as if the Beasts would announce their demise. Salmon left the group to concentrate on the Surrealists and Perkins' group The Cruel Sea was achieving huge success with their album The Honeymoon is Over.

In 1996, the group reformed with former Divinyls Charlie Owen on guitar and released Gone in 1997. The album received lukewarm reviews, but managed to produce a minor single in the form of Saturated. In 1997 the band went on hiatus.


The Beasts of Bourbon's music has often been compared to that of a rougher Rolling Stones (whose "C*cksucker Blues" they covered), The Gun Club (who they played with and who some Beasts of Bourbon members filled in for) and The Birthday Party. In Germany, the band were described as "Muddy Waters on crack". Their music is an amalgam of country music, blues, rock and roll and punk rock parsed through the garage sound of The Stooges and the drunken mayhem of Australian pub rock. It often touches on themes of depravity, morbidity, despair, drug abuse and violence.

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