The Blue Cheer

baja the hut · June 20, 2011

I, as most of you might know by now, am obsessed about very specific things...

I love film, only in certain types, like screwball comedies etc... and Gangster Films, like on the other thread and 60s music, mostly around country and psychedelia, and some literature, but only when i feel the urge to read.

I have been having a thought about why I like stuff and why I love some music over others particularly...then I realise that to explain, I must draw on Vincebus Eruptum as an example...

It;s by this band the Blue Cheer, which I am sure, some of you are aware of...

They aren't the best band by any stretch of the imagination, very rudimentary in their technique when they cut this album...it's raw like nothing else I have ever listened to, it's just a band of guys with no ambition shredding at their instruments like a angry dog would at a door that inhibits it.

That's what their music is about, they are using their instruments to get free of whatever, and I don't know what this is, it's almost like they are using them as sonic instruments to help them break free, making noises that are abstract and are as mysterious as the things that make us all not free.

And that's what I come to, I work in a non-descript job in London. I don't really matter, there is no glamour, but when I listen to these guys, and I listen to them giving it all and trying to break free, I feel great I feel cool in the naive way that you would feel in school when you know that you are onto something that no one else is, something that is a secret that is between you and yourself.

Vincebus Eruptum is like that, it's a secret between that band and themselves as a collective and perhaps each of them alone, and I listen to it and i ride the tube and I go, f***! that's so great, they might not have been huge, but they attempted to break free and for that I admire them, because in their trying to break free, some part of me, listening to them is trying to break free of this utter mundanity that encompasses my daily schedule.

Baja.

Falconhoof · June 20, 2011

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