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3/4-Baked July (2002)Ostensibly the follow-up to 1994's "Half-Baked July," if there is a pale homage to Harvest in the Knetzger ouevre, this be it, mostly by virtue of four Youngish tracks featuring the only recorded appearance of Jack on harmonica (for good reason). "Bugs" is the standout, Belewish single. Ish a good album.
bugs | homebody | another world | la grunge | some blues | it'll be alright may your days be bright | hoedown
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Pop Summit (2002)A mish-mash, opening with a lame Python-esque parody of the BBC version of Trading Spaces. There follows a set of mostly instrumental tracks, spiced up by MIDI drum beds on tracks 3-9, courtesy of special guest artist Derrick Bostrom, of the original Meat Puppets and creator of Today's Sounds .
changing internal organs | majority | things looking up | be a pal | derr bop | click tock
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magic sugar eye (2000-2001)From the huge opening overture of guitars to the melotronic dreamscape of the final track, the double album "sugar eye" is a pop Gigantess in search of a place to sit down. These tracks from disc 1 alone range from rotgut rock to ooh-lah-lah pop to space jazz, and that's just in the track "medley." The furthest point comes halfway in on "john mccain for president," a 9-minute Cocoa Puff-fueled rant over a slanky Velvety guitar, dubbed at 3 am while the house slept.
ring it in |back when I was a zero | medley | tick clock | secret agent | powerpoint blues
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Vault Vol 2. - Misc Tracks (1998-2001)change my blood | head | time to feed the dog | you can't tell me anymore | too many balls | ben | hive | ladyland | puke | a rainy day | 3rd stone from the sun, you got me floatin', ain't no telling, if 6 was 9 (Hendrix covers) | on a faraway beach | nyah nyah nyah | motoring | burned again | in love | one fine day | down someone for you | peppermint street | go slow | no tomorrow | any fool can see
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Vault Vol 1. - the '70s Classic Tracks (1975-1981)Jack Knetzger (git,v) & Derrick Bostrom (drums) (tracks provided by Derrick Bostrom) Ringo's Theme (Beatles) - Jack channels Art Fern and John Lennon on the vocal. Perfect Bostrom Starr take as usual. A duo, no bass, like most ABC. Fire (Hendrix) - there were two eras in ABC - before and after the Fender Reverb unit, a tube-driven reverb head that got plugged into Jack's Marshall combo for swampy results. Rare jam features Cris Kirkwood on bass, and Kevin Craig on vocals. Night of the Living Dead (Misfits) - heroic punk vocal cover from Jack. Amazing tempi, listen to the tight tom patterns on the bridges from Bostrom. Cris Kirkwood-bass. I Wanna Be Your Man (Beatles) - Sometimes the Strat-Marshall combo was too much even for Jack to control, as evidenced by the out of control noise rave up at the onset. Turns into a fine chugger, Jack vocal. Fantastic fandango treble pickup lead spot from which Jack could not return. Curt Kirkwood on bass. I Call Your Name (Beatles) - Another super drum performance from Bostrom, Jack attempting more Lennon scream builds on the choruses. Again, the lead spotlet denoues into a song fragment ending, a classic ABC device. Curt Kirkwood-bass. Highway Chile (Hendrix) - If he got decent fakes for a couple chords and a riff or two, Jack did Hendrix. This HC features an extended improv rythym/feedback lead for 3/4 of the track before the Jack vocal appears. Curt Kirkwood-bass.
"The Terminals" Jonestown (Jack) (aka "Guayana Massacre") -- Jack on vocals & lead David Was a Man (Jack) -- Jack on vocals Alone with You (Nicholls?) -- A John song, Emmett dubbed the lead Jack-style after Jack split the band Creeps Repeat (Jack) -- Jack singing original with classic wall-of-shmear chord progression Elevator Song (Jack) -- Jack on vocals (thanks to Emmett Kilgariff, for the tracks |
