[bomp] The Screamin' Mee-Mees & Hot Scott Fischer WARP SESSIONS 1972-1973 Double-CD

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The Screamin' Mee-Mees
& Hot Scott Fischer
WARP SESSIONS 1972/1973
Double-CD (Gulcher 431)

Five years before they released their first EP in 1977, the Screamin'
Mee-Mees (Bruce Cole and Jon Ashline) were already making lots of racket.  The
two
musical outcasts would get together in Bruce's St. Louis basement and switch
on
the tape recorder to document their undisciplined musical madness.  Jon banged
on drums and homemade percussion, yelping out spontaneous lyrics.  Bruce
added guitar and other electronic junk to the mix.  It was self-contained and
must
have seemed like an elaborate private joke to the duo--freaking in the
basement, isolated and pure.  In 1972, a little bit of the outside world
entered in
the form of "Hot" Scott Fischer, a local rock writer who had found underground
notoriety in the pages of rock mags like CREEM and PHONOGRAPH RECORD
MAGAZINE.  Scott was the first writer to make the connections between
Krautrock and
the Stooge-garage-rock underground of the early 70s.

The first recorded session with the Mee-Mees and Fischer took place on the
balcony of Fischer's apartment.  As the boys jammed their primitive Midwestern
blend of the Godz and Amon Duul I, local kids showed up to gawk, and the cops
eventually shut down the proceedings.  Almost an hour of chaos and space-age
freak-out came from this meeting:  "Just Fine," "Edge Of Space," "You're Now
In
Our World," "Take Cover," "The Attack Of The Intergalactic Cement Mixers," "In
The World Of Space," and a spastic take on the Velvet Underground's "Sister
Ray."

In 1973, the trio got together again, this time in Bruce Cole's basement (the
scene of pretty much all other Mee-Mees recordings over the next three
decades).  This yielded more crazed rambling and free-form jamming.  The
outer-space
themes had already been replaced by something darker, hinting at punk-rock
that was already in the air:  "I Am Nothing," "Mommy I'm Falling," and two
more
originals that even had titles which would later become underground
touchstones:  "Final Solution" and "Another World."  No, they don't sound like
the Pere
Ubu or Richard Hell songs of 1976, but what did Ubu and Hell's Voidoids sound
like in '73?  Oh yeah, they didn't exist yet!  Yes, these guys were "ahead of
their time" in more ways than one.

Thanks to the ever-groovy Gulcher Records, the two WARP SESSIONS from '72 and
'73 (released as limited-edition Slippy Town CDRs in 2000 and 2001) are now
available on a handy double CD.  Also included is the previously unreleased
"Floorbored," a bit of lunacy done by Bruce and Scott for the amusement of
Jon,
who had left St. Louis for college.  Dig!  [Eddie Flowers, Slippy Town]

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