BEASTS OF BOURBON [Special]
BEASTS OF BOURBON [Special]
The Beasts of Bourbon grew from simply being a side project to become a true supergroup of the Australian pub rock scene. Forming in Sydney in 1983, the original Beasts lineup comprised Tex Perkins (vocals, later of the Cruel Sea), Spencer P. Jones(guitar, also with the Johnnys), James Baker (drums, and a Hoodoo Guru , Dubrovniks , ...) and a pair of Scientists in guitarist Kim Salmon and bassist Boris Sudjovic. The band began playing together in small venues in Sydney, recording their first album, "The Axeman's Jazz" in a single afternoon in 1984.
Despite the album becoming an underground success, the Beasts continued to be just a side project for its members. It wasn't until 1988 that this situation began to change. With both the Johnnys and the Scientists imploding, the Beasts reformed to record arguably their best album, "Sour Mash". The swamp-rock of "The Axeman's Jazz" had given way to a fusion of blues-based pub rock and punk with great effect. 1990's "Black Milk" expanded on this idea.
1991's "The Low Road" saw the addition of two new members. Baker and Sudjovic left the group to concentrate on their band the Dubrovniks, and were replaced by Tony Pola and Brian Hooper from Salmon's then band the Surrealists. In 1993, a double album "From the Belly of the Beasts" 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". However, the group reformed in 1996 with former Divinyl 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 2003, they reformed to record a live album, "Low Life", released on Spooky Records. In 2006, they reformed to play in the Big Day Out Festival around Australia and New Zealand.In late December 2006 it was announced that the Beasts of Bourbon had signed an exclusive worldwide recording deal with and they are set to release their new album "Little Animals" on April 21, 2007 .Recently the group played alongside other Autralian bands and artists at the Rockin' for Rights concert, which protested the unfair Workchoices legislation of the Howard Government. After a show in Berlin in April 2008, the group cancelled their remaining tour dates and ended the band. No reason was given for the group's split.
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BEASTS OF BOURBON "Psycho" (1984)
Genre: Garage
Style: Psychobilly, Noise, Garage, Punk, Blues
The "Psycho" 7" was released in 1984, the two b-sides: Good Times & Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White were recorded live at The Old Civic Theatre in Perth (1984).
BEASTS OF BOURBON "Psycho"
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BEASTS OF BOURBON "The Axeman's Jazz" (1984)
Genre: Garage
Style: Psychobilly, Noise, Garage, Punk, Blues
Label: Bigtime
The Beasts of Bourbon sound something along the lines of Nick Cave fronting The Gun Club, and if you're a fan of either artist, you really need to check this out. They aren't the only influence present - you can hear The Cramps, The Rolling Stones, and even Porter Wagoner. However, the band manages to blend all these influences to create a sound thats truly their own. The Beasts of Bourbon grew from simply being a side project to become a true supergroup of the Australian pub rock scene. Forming in Sydney in 1983, the original Beasts lineup comprised Tex Perkins (vocals, later of the Cruel Sea), Spencer Jones (guitar, also with the Johnnys), James Baker (drums, and a Hoodoo Guru) and a pair of Scientists in guitarist Kim Salmon and bassist Boris Sudjovic. The band began playing together in small venues in Sydney, recording their first album, The Axeman's Jazz, in a single afternoon in 1984. Tony Cohen produced The Beasts of Bourbon's first album - the legendary, spontaneous, drug and alcohol fueled Axman's Jazz.It's one of those album you just can't get enough of.
My first memory of listening to "The Axman's Jazz" was when "Psycho" was playing loud at a drunken party. We knew Nick Cave and his mad Bad Seeds, we loved The Cramps and we thought Violent Femmes was way cool. But Beasts of Bourbon was the toughest of them all. Of course the crazy, weird, dead-funny "Psycho", but also "Evil Ruby", "Drop Out" and "Ten Wheels for Jesus". The lyrics was telling tales of drunken and some cruelty. And it was in the southern, gothful way that really made me a fan. They can still rock, and "Little Animals", a complete new record was out earlier this year. You should really check it out, but in the meantime have yourself a ball with one classic album from down under. "The Axman's Jazz" is up there with the best !!
Tracklist:
1 Evil Ruby
2 Love & Death
3 Grave Yard Train
4 Psycho
5 Drop Out
6 Save Me a Place
7 Lonesome Bones
8 The Day Marty Robbins Died
9 Ten Wheels for Jesus
BEASTS OF BOURBON "The Axeman's Jazz"
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BEASTS OF BOURBON "Sour Mash" (1988)
Genre: Garage
Style: Psychobilly, Noise, Garage, Punk, Blues
From the beginning, the Beasts of Bourbon were formed as a drinking club/side project of the Australian underground rock scene of the early '80s. In the Beasts' ranks were members of the Cruel Sea, Hoodoo Gurus, Johnnys, and the Scientists, who assembled to cut an album of blues-drenched sleaze-rock one afternoon in 1984. The Axeman's Jazz became a springboard for much later success as a full-time working band. In 1988, the group released Sour Mash, which was a dream come true for fans of the Australian rock and garage punk that fused the sensibilities of their disparate groups to great success and marked the transition to full-time concern for the group members. With the Johnnys and Scientists both calling it a day just prior to Sour Mash, the collective creative forces were pooled to make the Beasts of Bourbon's landmark in which remains their prime document. A raw blues-rock album with post-punk afflictions, the band was often compared to the Birthday Party, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and the Surrealists. Although, maybe that similarity is only extra evident due to sharing producer Tony Cohen, who hand shaped some of the best Australian rock albums of the '80s and '90s. Sour Mash was produced by Phil Punch and the Beasts of Bourbon, which should be indicative enough from such titles alone what kind of a raucous affair the album is. With the enigmatic Tex Perkins, who could be one of rock & roll's last great frontmen, and the blistering slide-guitar-driven sound, the band does a fine job of re-creating the sound of a twisted night out at the pub. The Beasts certainly have stakes on a claim to the phrase "desert rock" on this outing, which has Kim Salmon's trademark guitar twang all over it. The follow-up Black Milk disappoints considerably next to this, undoubtedly their finest work.
Tracklist:
1 Hard Working Drivin' Man
2 Hard for You
3 Watch Your Step
4 Playground
5 Door to Your Soul
6 These Are the Good Old Days
7 The Hate Inside
8 Pig
9 Driver Man
10 Today I Started Loving You Again
11 Flathead (The Fugitive)
12 This Ol' Shit
13 Sun Gods
BEASTS OF BOURBON "Sour Mash"
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BEASTS OF BOURBON "Black Milk" (1990)
Genre: Garage
Style: Psychobilly, Noise, Garage, Punk,
Third album from the Australian garage punk and pub rock super-group is a fine album of lurching blues-driven rock, though it pales by comparison to the two previous albums. The ramshackle debut, The Axeman's Jazz, was cut in an afternoon -- as a gag between members of the Hoodoo Gurus, Scientists, and the Johnnys -- the 1984 release remains to be their quintessential release. The version of the album released in Germany on Normal featured and un-released free bonus 7" single on which two cuts surpass anything on the album.
Tracklist:
1 Black Milk
2 Finger Lickin'
3 Cool Fire
4 Bad Revisited
5 Hope You Find Your Way to Heaven
6 Words from a Woman to Her Man
7 I'm So Happy I Could Cry
8 Let's Get Funky
9 A Fate Much Worse Than Life
10 El Beasto
11 Blue Stranger
12 I've Let You Down Again
13 Execution Day
14 Rest in Peace
BEASTS OF BOURBON "Black Milk"
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BEASTS OF BOURBON "From the belly of the Beasts" 2cd (1993)
Live '91 & 92 (Blue disc) : 1) Chase the dragon / 2) Driver man / 3) Save me place / 4) Bad revisited / 5) Black milk / 6)Drop out / 7) Hard for you / 8)Straight hard & long / 9) Let's get funky / 10) Cocksucker blues / 11) Watch your step / 12) Execution day / 13) Good times .
Shit we didn't put out the 1st time (Red disc) : 1)No reason / 2)Junkie girlfriends / 3) Ramblin' man / 4) Not gonna try no more / 5) Kill this fire / 6) Hope your find your way to heaven / 7) Love & death / 8) E.S.P. / 9) Dead flowers / 10) Train kept a rollin' / 11) So agitated / 12) Dirty water / 13) Crawfish .
The Beasts Of Bourbon : Red disc : tracks 7,8,9,10: Spencer P. Jones : guitar / Tex Perkins : vocals / Stu Spasm : bass / James Baker : drums / Brad Shepherd : guitar _ tracks 1,2,4: Jones / Perkins / Kim Salmon : guitar / Brian Henry Hooper : bass / Tony Pola : drums / tracks 3,6: Jones, Perkins, Salmon / track 5 : Jones / Baker / Perkins / Salmon / Boris Sujdovic : bass /
tracks 11, 12, 13 : Jones / Perkins / Spasm / Baker / Graham Hood : bass .
Blue disc : Spencer P. Jones : guitar / Tex Perkins : vocals / Tony Pola : drums / Kim Salmon : guitar / Brian Henry Hooper : bass.
BEASTS OF BOURBON "From the belly of the Beasts" 2cd (1993)
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