Sunday, October 14, 2007

What psychotronics is and how it works Pt.1

We meet on Mondays in Jim Laverty's basement and play whatever happens along. There's usually an old TASCAM Portastudio 424 tape deck running, too. Four channel anolog cassette recorder. Remember those? Cassette tapes... i'll be damned. Some history is in order-

Turns out Vince Hely and Jim would meet down there to jam. They asked Curt Hendricks and Roy Gokenbach to join them on guitars. Roy was/is an "A Cat" (a jazz term, i think)- plays with a lot of top-of-the-line jazz players, always good for a jam session. Curt on the other hand is a rocker. They recorded everything and Jimmy came up with some nice mixes.

Curt and Vince played in a band called Electric Sheep some time ago. V and I knew each other from the Earwacks days and after that we played in a band named The Rhythm Method. I had always been a fan of Curts playing since he started Plaid Cattle. So when Vince arraigned for his new band psychotronics to openn for Funkabilly, I was excited to see them.

more to come...

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