Running Off With The Sun City Girls
:: Hitman Boy ::
:: My Painted Tomb ::
:: Black Tent ::
:: Trippin' On Krupa ::
:: Helwa Shak ::
With the passing of Sun City Girls drummer Charles Gocher last week, I pulled the album that launched their career off the shelves for a few plays. I picked it up way back in the day because it was on Placebo, the label that spawned JFA and that insane Feederz’ Jesus 7-inch. Those were the days when I busied myself with falling off my skateboard a lot and angering my folks by blaring songs with lyrics about Jesus fucking people in the ass, so I didn’t really “get” the Sun City Girls. By the time I came around and started appreciating their kind of thing, it seemed like they had about 50 releases and it was too daunting a task to dive in. So I didn’t. I know – lame. It’s even lamer when I look at all the Lawrence Welk records on my shelves and see only one SCG release. Ah, well. Here are a couple of tunes off it, from 1984. Maybe it will inspire the uninitiated to delve where I haven’t yet.
Phil
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:45:00 AMI was saddened to read of Charles Gocher's demise, and heard of it first on this very blog. I'm not quite sure if anyone ever could truly "get" the Sun City girls, suffice to say that when they were good they were really good. I'm not enough of a fan myself to expound at length on their (if there is one) manifesto, except to confess that i get off much more on their simmering, meandering guerrila-led sojourns than their all-out Sun Ra type visceral assaults.
That Gocher is gone is a real pity, but it's good to see the Sun City Girls deservedly having some light shed on their early output. Thanks.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:36:00 AM
your Uncle Jim smokes pot...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:39:00 AM
I am very sorry to hear of the passing of Charlie, having gone to see the Sun City Girls in high school, I too did not appreciate them until I was older, I too bought a lot of thier stuff when I was younger, but did not get it until later. My band played a few shows with the Sun City Girls, and Charlie was especially fun to watch, as he had a very peticular way he played......its amazing that there was no media mention of his passing here in Arizona, and they are a legendary band.....shows you how much the Arizona music scene has its head up its ass....
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