pussy galore, Dave Clark

[Don Smith <DonTGD@xxxxxxxxx>]

> According to the liner notes, the remastering
>process was supervised by Dave Clark himself.

well, yeah.  I mean Dave Clark has total financial and artistic control
of everything he put his fingers into, shrewd, if not jerky,
businessman.  he bought the rights to tons of stuff from the 1960s.
When other rockers bought houses and drugs, he bought publishing & video
rights.

>  The liners also mention that this
>package represented the first ever legitimate CD reissue of any DC5
material.

I might be wrong, but that is I believe the only legit cd in print in
the US at all, then or since.

> Pussy Galore?
>Another "essential?" band I have never heard. What and who do these
guys sound like exactly?

Pussy Galore are one of my all time favorite bands and I missed them
every time they played in DC, I missed them when they played on my damn
college campus (note- this was 86 and they were just getting started and
I was 18).  At the time people told me they were an art/noise/goth band
influenced by the Swans.  But in reality they "sound exactly" like a
bluesy punk/garage band that threw up on tape.  Horrible quality,
extremely questionable lyrics, most humorously poking fun at the DC punk
scene, dirty, grungy, noisy garage with screaming drugged out vocals.
At one point they released a cassette of them recording the Rolling
Stones Exile on Mainstreet album in it's entirety.  Perhaps ballsy?
Perhaps a bloated concept?

Jon Spencer cleaned up his sound considerably before starting the Blues
Explosion.

Check out the compilation of their early material, the name of which
escapes me, I would lean toward their earlier stuff because that is more
rock and less conceptual.

Don