Thie History And Importance Of Psychobilly - Music School
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In today's video, I look at the history and reality of one of the most under-appreciated genres: psychobilly. Share and enjoy.
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did he really just pronounce the meteors, the metors?? ha!!!
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The fact remains that there are few psychobilly acts from any point in history that are as engaging and exciting as Hasil Adkins. I watched this video twice but somehow both times missed the part where you mentioned him. I'll try a third after commenting this, I'm sure it's in there.
Klub Foot became the mecca of live psychobilly, it wasn't the cradle. The Meteors started out playing traditional retro rock 'n' roll clubs but old fashioned audience sensibilities persuaded them to ditch 'the scene' and find their own audience / play punk venues. Seeing as the Meteors were the only widely known psychobilly band at the time Klub Foot opened and the only others were possibly one or two tribute bands among the Meteors' audience (including the Guana Batz), it's safe to say the Meteors were founding members and pillars of the community.
Levi Dexter was a lifelong teddy boy-turned-rockabilly from London who formed a band and mini-toured southern U.S.A. circa 1978/9. He was already making friends in London punk clubs and New York / wherever in the U.S.A. when he brought the second incarnation of his band over to double-bill some early Meteors gigs so ... I think he might have also been an inaugural Klubfooter.
With a few notable exceptions (I'll note Restless - a rock 'n' roll trio who wrote their own songs and always played a great live set), Klub Foot was a rolling roster of bands formatively influenced by the Meteors. I suppose the bookers were conducive to a little variety once in a while so you'd occasionally see something different down there. The Jets played traditional rock 'n' roll and probably wouldn't have garnered a following from the Klub Foot audience by their own volition but I think they got a good reception when I saw them play there. The great Ray Campi popped by during a European tour. I missed that one but saw him at another venue.
The Cramps did take the early Meteors on a tour of Britain and may or may not have had some musical influence (possibly shredding the guitar a little more vigorously) and the Cramps' early recordings obviously indicate similar rockabilly and b-movie influences to the Meteors, but - psychobilly? No. Proto grunge. No bouncing double bass reverb: you couldn't pogo-bop to the Cramps. They weren't part of the organically grown psychobilly tribe but they were loved by many.
Saying psychobilly is a mix of rockabilly and punk is a simple answer but one which needs expanding if you're preaching origins. Back to the source. A lot of trad rock 'n' roll bands at the time (and probably now) were respectfully nostalgia driven, which is fine in its own way - but the slew of British teenage neo-rockabilly bands whose burgeoning following comprised the first psychobilly tribe were invigorated by raw, uncut gems from the hillbilly vaults. Tuned-in London rock 'n' roll DJs were making pilgrimages to deep south U.S.A. and unearthing hot biscuits which were deemed unfit for human consumption when the music conglomerates reined in the first wave of hillbilly bop / rockabilly some twenty years prior. The Daily Guru himself cites Screamin' Jay Hawkins. These lobotomised London teenage hillbillies were emulating speed records set by Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, not a Sunday afternoon amble with the Sex Pistols.
The Pistols were admirable in their own way but 'punk influence' is waaaay overstated - and rockabilly, as ever, tends to be forgotten.
Of course any musician can write their own post-it notes for their own forehead and rip up those written by others - it's more important that you're true to yourself and those around you - but since we're preaching origins ... without the A, B, C of that organic youth movement there would be no X, Y, Z of kids walking into lamp posts all over the streets today because their vision is impaired by self inflicted post-it notes.
I love Psychobilly. The Horrorpops RULE. Watching from London.
Django Reinhardt. If you listen to the non distorted original psycho - style, not so much that Horrorpunk/ Nekromantix- mixture of the last 20 years, you hear basically a Django Reinhardt - guitar. But with an adaequate rhythm section on top. And in that it`s often not necessarily the slap bass, but the drums pushing forward. You may listen to "The adventures of.." by the Krewmen or the Scallywags.
He simply read the Wikipedia
keep it underground, keep it sick.
Thank you
This is an very informative piece, liked and favored.
You should do a Music School piece on the metal sounds of a Native American Drum Group.
our dance is called wrecking.
Daily Guru, you have no idea, this isn't how it happened. Going to give you a lesson in musical history now, cause you aint got a clue. In the early 70's when the UK was the bastion of 50's Rock n Roll, the UK bands started to explore the music from the south i.e. Rockabilly. Towards the late 1970's around 1976 a new younger gereration was getting into the scene alongside the old Teddy Boys which went well for a few years. Forwards to late 1970's and their was a split in the rocking scene as the younger generation started to move away from the well tried Rock n Roll rockabilly tunes towards bands that wrote their own material and played with a more raw edge as happened in the early 1950's. Our clothes changed, we wore early 1950's clothes in much brighter colours, shaved heads (side and back) with a bleached flatop sporting a quiff which the teddy Boys really didn't like,, and so the scene split, the cats (thats what we were called) went one way, and the Teds the otherway, but with a close relationship that often crossed over. 1981 - 83 was the real time of change towards what would become Neo Rockabilly and Psychobilly scene, two styles that often merged. You talk about the cramps starting the scene, thet didn't, they were an influence for us as was glam rock, garage rock, punk and most of all Rockabilly. The Meteors are the band that started it all, without then there would have been no psychobilly. By the way, it was origionally psychabilly and is still pronounced that was even though it is spelt psychobilly now.
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And then a few great years of great music hapened. Saddly at the end of this time our friends across the pond (USA) got hold of the music and ruined it into something that nolonger resembles psychobilly.
Yet you wouldnt have rockabilly without the usa. Nobody ruined anything. Like you said, styles evolved.
Also, who in the USA is ruining psychobilly? You tell me?
@@darkwyngraym thats a really stuipid post, how old are you 5? Using your logic, you wouldn't have had Rockabilly without Europeans taking their folk music to the USA. Ruined, have you seen the stuff turned out in the states that they call Psychobilly? It sounds more like thrash or punk.
@@motorvating what is it and what bands? Cmon spit it out. Certainly wasnt me ruining anything. And yes ive gotten to experience all the good bands. Like the meteors and my faves. The guana batz.
Just tell me who ruined it for you lol
Ok,die Wurzeln liegen in schrägen Rockabilly Nummern aus den Fünfzigern. Weder die Cramps noch Rev Horton Heat sehen sich als Psychobillybands. Slapbass und Gretschgitarre sind auch kein Muss um Rocknroll zu machen.Wieder mal so ein Ami der meint er hätte ne Ahnung kann aber nicht mal die Bandnamen aussprechen.The Quake,The Meders.Das heisst The M3T30Rs! OTMAPP!!!
Only The Meantraitors Are Pure Psychobilly
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dont know where this guy got his history from, the m3t3ors. made psycho, he dont even say it propley lol
Why is an American trying to talk about the history of psychobilly?
Do more research, mate. Talk to people who were there. Take notes. Then come back and do this video again.