Attention World: I Hate You!

Lately, I've been listening obsessively to my favorite web radio station, 3WK Classic Underground Radio. In fact, what I like about 3WK, is it's all shit from the late 60's, early 70's FM radio glory days (when d.j.s were unobtrusive and merely said something like "I'm Bruce and now here's some Blodwyn Pig) and most of the songs are pretty obscure. Recently I heard a song by a psychedelic band called Ultimate Spinach who were purveyors of something called the "Bosstown Sound, whatever the hell that was.

IAN BRUCE-DOUGLAS
By all accounts, Ultimate Spinach were ultimately pretty shitty, but still had that certain, special something...a definite bad attitude that pushed them away from the typical hippie psychedelia and positioned them closer to weirdos like the Fugs. Musically, the band traded on the usual well-worn blues riffs extended to mind-numbing lengths featuring long, modal-based guitar noodling. The lyrics, however, revealed a deep-seated disturbance with the hippie stance. Sentiments like "I'd just as soon kill you as look at you so LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!!!"don't exactly conjure visions of the peace and love hucksters (er... hippies) but do foresee the two years or so after the Summer of Love when these same flower-power advocates would be caught up in the coke and smack scene and would be dealing with the bad vibes of the post-Manson death blow to the counter-culture movement.

But that's all ancient history. Ian Bruce-Douglas was the brains behind Ultimate Spinach, and he is still lurking around the fringes making music, probably more of a malcontent than ever. It's heartening to know that there are still freaks like Bruce-Douglas out there, so the legions of black-hooded sweatshirt-wearing, crusty fuck-mooks who think they invented indie-rock can be stared straight in the face by some aging maniac and take their proper position, which is bent over with their dirty fucking jeans around their ankles begging for mercy.
Check out the interview for the Ian Bruce-Douglas story.