Only someone as smart as Luke Haines (ex-Auteurs, Black Box Recorder) could come up with this - an album themed on a fantasy of the 1970's downtown New York rock & roll scene. Available in May from Cherry Red Records, NY In The 70's is exactly what its supposed to be - a mythic re-imagining of the New York Rock n Roll scene 1972 - 1979.
SCENE 1 – A DORSET CHALKHILL, BRITAIN 2014
A gigantic mythical naked man awakens from thousand year kip. Chico, a messenger bird, is speaking in tongues and whispering a poem into the naked dude's chalky ear:
“Oh Little Johnny Jewel
He's so cool
He has no decision
He just trying to sell a vision”
Chico (something of a savant, bless) is reciting the lyrics to Television's seismic year zeroin classic Little Johnny Jewel.
“He's just trying to sell a vision,” repeats the messenger bird. With an ancient rumble, the naked dude stands up to reveal his true height of 180 ft.
“I am Cerne Abbus Giant, and Tom Verlaine is my main man,” bellows the Chalk Giant. “I awaken from Dorset Hills as the seeker. The seeker of Mythic Muthafuckin' Rock n Roll. Show me the way to CBGBs in the 1970s Chico. We will bestride the Atlantic and I'll carry you on my fantastic 36 ft phallus. Climb aboard Chico.”
“Oh my,” says the bird.
SCENE 2 – NEW YORK CITY. ONE YEAR LATER
The Kaballistic order of OM AKA The Real Dead Boys, comprising of Alan Ginsberg, Jim Carroll, Stiv Baters, Johnny Thunders and Sid Vicious are holding an invocation, on 213 Park Avenue South. The chanting begins at 23.23pm:
Shalom Shalom - David Johanson
Shalom Shalom - John Genzale
Shalom Shalom - Jerry Nolan
Shalom Shalom - Killer Kane
Shalom Shalom - Max's Kansas City
Shalom Shalom - The Mercer Arts Centre
Shalom Shalom - Billy Murcia
Shalom Shalom - Syl Sylvain
On it goes until dawn, Shalom Shalom... Lou Reed... Shalom Shalom... Alan Vega...
SCENE 3 – A PRESS RELEASE FROM LONDON, ENGLAND. MARCH 2014
Luke Haines has made an album about the 70's Rock n Roll scene in New York City which is released on Cherry Red on Monday May 19th 2014.. A mythical re-imagining of a long gone age, by a man who hails from Surrey, Southern UK. It is the third and final part of a psychedelic trilogy that began with 2011's 9 and a half psychedelic meditations on British Wrestling From the 1970s and early '80s. This one is for the real rock n roll animals.
Hail the Mythic
Hail the Muthafuckin'
Hail the Rock n Roll
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