Black Panthers / Deep inside.... what?

Ah yes well.... its not my fault i was in a band with a bunch of perverts!

Made by us in fact. Alan Cameron filmed it and edited it. And with a limited array of tools at hand. RIP ALC5. Respect.

Black Panthers / You ain't around

Black Panthers Live at Christchurch Television School. 1997 again.....

Black Panthers / hey hey

Black Panthers Live in Christchurch. 1997 by my reckoning.....

Curse of the Panther

In 1997, The Black Panthers were formed. Consisting of Matt Alien, myself (as Bob cadillac), Leon Zchivago and Ayatolla Blitzkreig, we were what rock n roll nightmares are made of. Far too many leadbreaks, excessive screaming, wearing our girlfriends clothes, never playing sober.....breaking things.....it just got worse really. Loads of fun though!

We released two vinyls for Kato records, the first was a 7" single and the second a full length LP.

We also made a few videos which i'll post one or two of shortly on this blog.

This recording i'm posting here is was our first and two songs were selected from this for the 7" single. We'd only been together a few months before this was recorded on my Teac reel to reel by David Rayner at cambridge tce. Look for the vinyls on discogs if your interested.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/1860329-The-Black-Panthers-2

Here's the link for download:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/toritp6njnrtfua

Mp3 @ 320 kbs.

Mothgods live

Here's a Mothgods vid from 1995. This song isn't on the album download on this blog so you're a lucky chimp to be able to hear it at all. More earthquakes in chch today. Glad i'm not there.

Bob Cadillac - I want you / Don't wait up for me girl

Here's a couple of tunes I recorded a few years back. One being a version of 'I want you' by the fabulous Troggs. I really liked the MC5 version of this song. The way they slowed it down made it sound so epically heavy.
This arrangements even slower! You can't beat the Troggs' original though. Recorded in 1966 as a B side to 'With a girl like you' it sure is punk before punk. Tribal thunder recorded this track and played drums. Joe played bass and Kris screamed. I'm on guitar duties and vox as per usual.
The second song is one of my originals. Recorded around 2003 in some studio / rehearsal room out in the burbs of melbourne. The drummer showed up pasted, but we still managed to sound ok. Happy listening!

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/63h5o75zovp4iv3

Cadillac - 'everyday' vid

Around about 2002, i started a band called 'cadillac' in melbourne. There were basically two line-ups. One never quite got off the ground sadly, as two people had to leave the country! This is the second line up that did finally start gigging around town. This gig was filmed at the Arthouse in 2004 and was probably the best we ever got to tape. Check it out if you have too much time on your hands.......

Clones - ha ha ha

Here's a video my mate Tribal Thunder made.
We had an act called 'clones' going for a while there with Tribal doing all the music and Mark 'Chinaski' doin vocals and me doing nothing at all except drinking beer in the corner.
Finally Tribal thunder let me do something and this was it. All music by Tribal thunder with me on vocals. A version of the old Flipper classic ' ha ha ha'.

Suburbia..........

Helter Skelter

A 'Helter skelter' rehearsal. This is a band formed by me / matt alien / lynton von denhoven / shaun dury and grant. All old crew from NZ who have rolled over here to melbourne in the last year or so. Of course, what do you do when you hook up with some of your old muso pals? Start a band of course! (somehow we got away with it....). There is a studio recording floating around which sounded ace when we recorded it. That was six months ago. Hopefully one of these years it'll get mixed. In the meantime, here's a jam we had that i recorded on my telephone. Pretty low fi but fun for the whole family!

20mins of sheer improvisation. Enjoy.

xxx

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/0o4qhijh1bvd2mx

Mysterex: Indie Snapshots - Christchurch - 1991

Here's a bit of a squizz at the period of when Maus, the Babels, etc were kickin around in our one venue town.

Mysterex: Indie Snapshots - Christchurch - 1991

Maus

Maus were a three piece christchurch band from the early 90's. The brainchild of Matt davenport (pictured), maus went through a couple of different lineups with Matt firmly at the helm. Heavily influenced by the gordons, maus were not a quiet band. They rehearsed at my house a few times and you could'nt hear yourself think!
My band the Babels toured the south island with them playing to hardly anyone... but fuck we had a good time!
This recording made in the lounge of a flat in cramner square by James Woods catches them at their finest hour. This is the only recording i know of they made. Check out some great songwriting and some awesome tonal vibrations. Another lost NZ classic!

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/lwyynmnodij

the Satanic Rockers

This person is a BAD MAN! This is an assault on
all goodness! Why, only the other night he came to my house, pointed a gun at me and demanded curry!
If you listen to music like this.... then you need psychological help. I'd rather sit a home and listen to something nice (like roger whittaker) while sipping my sherry. Not this sort of behaviour!

Download includes artwork. Also by Mr Satanic rocker himself. Good one Lynton!

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/mwd1mwzk2nz

Psycho garage rock mayhem from Wellington, NZ.

I give you Hellfire!

Hi Tone Destroyers

Holy Moly! Ladies and gentlemen, this is THE 'Hi- tone destroyers', live and crazy and at their finest. If you dig psycho garage rock mayhem then look no further.....
Recorded mainly on a live to air radio show in Christchurch, New zealand (sometime in the mid 90's) and released as a cassette only.
Ripped and posted with permission from Matt Alien.
Personnel: Matt alien (guitar / vox), Leon Zchivago (bass / vocals), Don Gone (keyboards / harmonica), Duanne Zarakov (drums).
A gem not to be missed so get to and download this you mofo's!

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/emzqrnig20z

Freak scene

Here's a little goodie from back in the day.... a compilation of Christchurch bands (including my own, the babels) from 1991. A cassette only release, it helped get all these bands some well deserved airplay on student radio. There's a lot of history in here...i'm not gonna rave on about it. Those in the know will know...get it here!

Download Here!

The Babels

This was my first band. Started by me and Miles Fahey in 1990. Thats him on the far left wearing the bad brains t-shirt. We would always see each at gigs and say we were gonna start a band. And after a lot of messing around....we did! And this was the result. Influenced by early gothic rock, punk, and with a good dose of our surroundings thrown in (lets just say the backyard of NZ music can be a pretty strange place!). Some of this stuff is live and from rehearsals (and hence some is rather raw) but this documents pretty much everything in our repertoire.

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ymzzzynmykm