Lubricated Goat - In The Raw

Sydney Newspaper Nov 3rd 1988

Lubricated Goat - In The Raw

To end the year I thought I'd post the ultimate Lubricated Goat track and the opening song to 'Paddock of Love' IN THE RAW!!! This track was the song which Lubricated Goat preformed on ABC TV's (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) show Blah Blah Blah in the nude. The incident created a national stir and is now the subject of a documentary (also called In The Raw) which is a prelude to the Black Eye Records/Aberrant story (Gracelands on Cleveland Street). For more details on the In The Raw flick visit the IN THE RAW homepage, until then have a safe and happy new 2006. Cousin Creep Black Eye Records Jukebox

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Images from Blah Blah Blah from ABC TV

If you want to see the footage of Lubricated Goat doing In The Raw on Blah Blah Blah footage you can order the Amphetamine Reptile Records' Dope, Guns Vols. 1-3 DVD 1990-94 for just $25 from their site at amphetaminereptile.com

Martin Bland - I Like Nitrous Oxide

Martin Bland - I Like Nitrous Oxide

Martin Bland has drummed for number of acts including Zulu Rattle, Salamander Jim, Bloodloss, Lubricated Goat & Monkeywrench. 'I Like Nitrous Oxide' is a rare solo Bland track taken from the very bizzare Leather Donut compilation, Martin still lives in Seattle Washington.

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ZULU RATTLE - Come Down

A real Zulu Rattle

ZULU RATTLE - Come Down

Zulu Rattle were Stu Spasm (Salamander Jim / Lubricated Goat) on Guitar, RENESTAIR EJ (Bloodloss/Lubricated Goat) also on guitar, Martin Bland (Salamander Jim/Bloodloss/Lubricated Goat), Jim Selene (Falling Spikes/Primevils/Free Moving Curtis) on Bass & Sharon Weatherill AKA Zozzie Da Mozzie on Vocals. Originally Zulu Rattle were known as Bloodloss (one day I'll try and do a detailed story on them but until then) until they changed it to Zulu Rattle. Around 1984 they won a week of the Strawberry Hills Hotel Battle of the Bands contest. A compilation of this contest was released which features the only Zulu Rattle track committed to vinyl. A 7" EP was planned on G.R.E.E.N Records and material was recorded at Albert Studios (home of AC/DC/Ted Mulray Gang) with Tony Cohen. According to the legend they were in there after hours and perhaps unbeknown to the management of Alberts. It seems Stu Spasm threw a cigarette butt into a trash can which accidentally set off a small fire, which then triggered the overhead sprinkler system (which started to soak Alberts Studios and endanger all those precious AC/DC, Ted Mulray Gang & Angels master tapes). Needless to say, the tape for this session has either been lost or been scrubbed (prehaps as retribution for the incident) and only a casette dub from the sessions survived. Band members did later break into Alberts one night to find the tape in the tape library yet failed to locate it. This MP3 is taken from a 2nd generation cassette of the session and provides a interesting look at the early days of Spasm, Bland, EJ & Selene.

Sources: DNA Magazine Issue 38 October 1984 & Martin Bland Interview Seattle 2003 CLICK for MP3

OH NO! It's The James Baker Saga Experience

James Baker with The Victims (late 70's)

While James Baker shares a link with Black/Red Eye Records via his involvement with Beasts Of Bourbon, (early) Scientists & his first solo single (see this post) he was also a member of early Perth punk pioneers The Victims with Dave Faulkner from Hoodoo Gurus. Prior to The Victims, James was also in a short lived outfit called 'Geeks'. They may have gone down as a forgotten Perth punk yet recently on http://www.perthpunk.com a site run by ex Geeks member Ross Buncle has maintained that the material recorded by The Victims (on both their releases) as well as two tracks which appeared on the debut Scientists LP (Pink Album) were actually re-written 'Geeks' tracks which he has proved. While this was unbeknown at the time, subsequently both Kim Salmon & Dave Faulkner have now removed their names from the songwriting credits with APRA and now credit these to back to Buncle/Baker. Also of intrest are these original versions by The Geeks are now availible on CD from the Perth Punk site.

KING SNAKE ROOST - Buffalo Bob (Live)

Aliens, Mutants, Senseless Violence & Girls Girls Girls tape Issue 3

KING SNAKE ROOST - Buffalo Bob (Live)

This is quite a blast from the past, King Snake Roost taken from the 3rd issue of a cassette fanzine I used to run back in the late 80's called "Aliens, Mutants, Senseless Violence & Girls Girls Girls".

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Salamander Jim - Live on 2MBS August 1984

Salamander Jim at one stage featured Tex Perkins on vocals, Kim Salmon (The Scientists) on guitar & Richard Ploog (The Church) on drums.

Salamander Jim (1984)

Lachlan McLeod, Stu Spasm, Tex Perkins, Martin Bland

Soon Kim Salmon left for England with the Scientists and Tex reformed Salamander Jim with Stu Spasm & Martin Bland from Zulu Rattle (which we shall post a few MP3's on them soon) and Lachlan McLeod.

The cover art of Salamander Jim's 1985 mini LP 'Lorne Greene Shares His Precious Fluids' Red Eye Rerds RED2

During their existence Salamander Jim only released one mini LP on red Eye Records, being 'Lorne Greene Shares His Precious Fluids' (see above image) which is ultra hard to find. First of all I'd like to thank Harry Butler from DNA Mag who sent me a few cassettes of one of which included this Live to Air for Salamander Jim from 2MBS on 1st August 1984. Rather than just string out these MP3's, I've decided to post it as one complete set. The set list was Smokestack Lightning, Salamander Jim, Slag Street, Aligator Wine, Ghost Train, Bad Priest, Snakeskin Kid, Nervous Breaktown, Ugly Breakfast, Voices Green & Purple, Batman & Hot Cakes for Daddy.

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In Search of 'Hairy Biscuit'

Lachlan McLeod (THUG Live photo)

Just received an email from Lachlan McLeod reminding me about the allusive & never released 3rd Black Eye compilation 'Hairy Biscuit'. While I have been hoping to come across one of the few surviving test pressings I know this is silm as only a handful were pressed. I recall that Black Eye Records took out a back page advertisement in B-Side Magazine which featured the intended cover art. We here at Black Eye Records Jukebox are hoping two things... 1: If you have a copy of the test pressing please contact us (This would be a white label 12" with catalogue number example: BLACKLP12 or 11 actual number for 'Hairy Biscuit' is unknown for now. 2: Anyone who still owns a copy of the old B-side mag which featured the Black Eye Records ad with the 'Hairy Biscuit' artwork please contact us. Help us find a copy as the world needs to hear Hot Property performing 'April Sun in Cuba'

Hot Property

THUG - Thug Rap

THUG - Thug Rap

Thug with 'Thug Rap' taken from the ultra rare 1988 Leather Donut compilation on Black Eye Records which was compiled by Lachlan McLeod. When ever this pops up on Ebay it tends to go for anything between $80 - 120 bucks.

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Leather Donut Black Eye BLACKLP4

Purple Vulture Shit - Ringworm

Purple Vulture Shit's Ewan Cameron in his Skull Mask

Purple Vulture Shit - Ringworm

Hailing from the legendary household on Beulah Rd Norwood in Adelaide Purple Vulture Shit featured Chris Cashel (Toe) Big Tex (Tex Tunks) & Ewan Cameron (Egg'N'Brugers and also a famous artist now based in the Netherlands). They released one cassette on the DNA magazine tape label El Crapo (DNA Tape #4 PURPLE VULTURE SHIT / DISCIPLES OF JIM JONES) . Only one track made it to vinyl that being 'Ringworn' which was later issued on the Waste Sausage compilation on Black Eye Records.

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You can still purchase the PVS tape via Oz Music

Minced Meat - The World's Got Everything In It

Minced Meat - The World's Got Everything In It

Minced Meat were actually Spencer P Jones & Tex Perkins and this was recorded for the Leather Donut LP on Black Eye. 'The World's Got Everything In It' was later re-recorded by Spencer for his solo LP which was on Red Eye Records as well as the The Beasts of Bourbon. I've also included an extract from a Tex Perkins interview (taken from a JJJ interview with Mark Dodshon 08-08-1988) talking about the recording process of the Minced Meat track as well as the Black Eye Records ethic.

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Lubricated Goat - Kill Somebody Today

Lubricated Goat - Kill Somebody Today

While I hadn't planned on posting two Lubricated Goat tracks so close together I felt I needed to share this overlooked project which involved Lubricated Goat. The 2000 soundtrack to the 1997 film 'Love God' (KOCH Records) features a few tracks from the first Lubricated Goat EP 'Plays The Devil's Music' as well as some original score from Stu Spasm. I know very little about the film other then it was directed by Frank Grow and is categorized by IMDB.com as a comedy/horror. The CD can still be bought from AMAZON for a few bucks and is worth it for the 'Plays The Devil's Music' cuts which were left off the 'Schadenfreude' European CD release on Normal. This version of 'Somebody Today' differs from the 'Popular Male Vocalist' EP which was released on Australian Records.

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LUBRICATED GOAT - Goats & The Men Who Ride Them

LUBRICATED GOAT - Goats & The Men Who Ride Them

MARTIN BLAND (Bloodloss/Lubricated Goat) on recording 'Goats & The Men Who Ride Them' “..Stuart (Spasm) had been to Perth and recorded a couple of songs there with I think Brett Ford and Peter Hartley. And he was on his way back to Sydney and he stopped in Adelaide and he stayed in my lounge room and he was there for a week. When you’re in Adelaide you can’t go out for amusement except for the pub and that gets a little boring. So just amuse ourselves I had a four track recorder a Tascam and a very good one. We just started trying to amuse ourselves by writing the most stupid songs that we could. Initially we started to try to write an album of stripper music. A couple of people we knew in Sydney were strippers and we thought it might be nice to have something to dance to. So ah we kind of wrote this, he tried to write an album of stripper music and we got four or five songs written, I think it was five recorded. Stuart took the tape away I didn’t know anything about that he even had a band called Lubricated Goat to be honest with you. I didn’t know this was going to be on an album we were trying to amuse ourselves. Then about a year later or something I get an album (Plays The Devil's Music EP) from Stuart that’s got me on one side with sort of stripper music….”

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Grong Grong - Club Grotesque

Grong Grong promo photo

Grong Grong - Club Grotesque

Following a support to the Dead Kennedys, Grong Grong impressed Jello Biafra so much that he offered them a deal with Alternative Tentacles. The self titled EP featured one studio side (recorded as part of winning a battle of the bands contest)and a live side recorded at the Seaview Ballroom in St-Kilda (Melbourne). Unfortunately, as luck would have it when the EP was released lead singer Michael was in a coma for a number of years following a drug overdose which put Grong Grong on hiatus. Amazingly he survived (although was forever paralyzed from the waist down) and years later went onto front HACK which featured members of members of Fear & Loathing. Guitarist Charles Tolnay went onto King Snake Roost, Lubricated Goat & Tumor Circus. This is taken from the DNA tape recorded live at The Berkley Hotel. 27/10/84 for the DNA Fanzine 5th birthday party.

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Order this tape from Australian Music Books

What ever happened to RENESTAIR EJ?

RENESTAIR EJ early 90's

In case your wondering what ever happened to RENESTAIR EJ ex Bloodloss / Lubricated Goat who returned to Australia from Seattle in early 2004 due to health issues. Well I yesterday received an email from a guy called Captian I who also included a MP3 titled 'Mummy' by PETERHEAD which feature RENESTAIR EJ on sax, Nathan Dale from Hack and Anton Becker from Meat who were both part of the Adelaide connection back in the late 80s/early 90s. This track was recorded in 2003 yet new material featuring EJ is expected soon and shall be posted on here soon.

Peterhead

The BUTCHER SHOP - Iron Pig

THE BUTCHER SHOP - Iron Pig

This track is taken from the album "Pump Action" on Black Eye which featured Tex Perkins with Clifford Phillip (bass) Peter Hartley (drums) & Lachlan McLeod (guitar). Iron Pig also featured guest Stu Spasm on guitar. TRIVIA: Peter Hartley also was the crotch cover model for the Pump Action.

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King Snake Roost - Can of Worms

King Snake Roost - Can of Worms

Taken from the 3rd and final King Snake Roost LP that was recorded at Smart Studios with Butch Vig while on their 1st American tour. This is the only title King Snake Roost ever released on CD and can still be purchased from EBAY, AMAZON, HALF.com while vinyl copies can be bought from Amphetamine Reptile.

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