It seemed like music remade from the ground up The lyrics or singing so much as the way the vocals fit into the music, whichĭidn’t seem to be written in any traditional sense, even though there were Wasn’t one of those longhairs who was trying to sing blues. Some mixtape faves, but Music To Eat lodged in my Walkman when I got it,Ĭoming out to run off copies for friends.īruce Hampton’s presence on Music To Eat. His ‘80s albums didn’t get much play besides His very out-of-print discography on a fellow tape trader’s list a year or so In the summer of 1993 and reading about his previous ventures. Hampton Grease Band’s music after seeing Hampton’s Aquarium Rescue Unit perform Label that released R.E.M.’s debut single. Was on the front and back of their LP, and whose guitar seemingly went silentĪfter the Hampton Grease Band, besides a lone obscure 1982 7-inch on the same One story I missed at first is that of Harold Kelling, one of the Grease Band’sĭazzling guitarists, whose wordplay shaped the group’s vibe, whose visual art Usually fall more into the “lost” category, but all were equal contributors. If Hampton is sometimes remembered a kinetic and wild frontman, his bandmates It was a collective and group-minded endeavor, and Relative to their significance, but more importantly relative to the sheer
Grease Band qualifies as one of the most lost in underground music history Showman who lived (and even more legendarily, died) on stage. And it’s true, Hampton was at the front of the band, a legendary Himself to Colonel some years later and make a name as an elder weirdo on the
Mudcrutch Farm Festival, it was the Grease Band who headlined the night.įactoidization of the Hampton Grease Band is when they are remembered as aįootnote to the career of absurdist frontman Bruce Hampton, who would promote Gainesville, when Tom Petty’s band Mudcrutch decided to throw their very own Hampton Grease Band joined them at Piedmont Park as local ambassadors. The Grateful Dead came to Atlanta for the first time a few months later, the
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Were there to welcome them, playing a free show together at Piedmont Park. When the Allman Brothers Band made it up from Florida, the Hampton Grease Band Formed in 1967, they were the house band for the local counterculture, beloved by the staff of the underground newspaper the Great Speckled Bird, and the first musicians to make use of an unprotected electrical outlet in Piedmont Park, soon the hub of the exploding free live music scene in town. What the MC5 were to Detroit, what the 13th Floor Elevators were to Austin, what the Mothers of Invention were to Los Angeles, what the Fugs were to New York, what the Haight-Ashbury groups were to San Francisco, the Hampton Grease Band were to Atlanta. The Hampton Grease Band were the South’s first freaks, and still their most incredible. Mainly that their sole album, 1971’s Music To Eat, was allegedly the second worse-selling double-LP in Columbia Records’ history, after an instructional yoga set. The importance of the Hampton Grease Band is almost always reduced to factoids. (…the latest entry of ‘blanks and postage’ - author jesse jarnow’s monthly column for aquarium drunkard highlighting the fringe and beyond.)
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