COLECTOMATIC, VOLUME 1
WHITE LABEL
----Christine
Natanael
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DARRYL
READ COLECTOMATIC, VOLUME 1 WHITE LABEL |
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| I get a lot of records from a lot of musicians and record labels. Sometimes I wonder if they’ve got their heads entirely up their own asses. And just when I get to the point that I’m about to give up on finding anything new or innovative or even, god forbid, just different from everything else that’s out there, I get a package in the mail from Darryl Read that restores my faith. | ||
| Colectomatic, Volume 1 is, as you guessed, a collection of works spanning part of Read’s considerable career. Opening with “On The Streets Tonight”, an unrealeased demo from 1975 recorded in glorious 8-track analog, I’m immediately transported back to the energetic days of post-garage/pre-punk London with a fuzzed out guitar and a stripped down arrangement. It’s a hungry, raw sound with a bluesy psychedelic edge. The cover of the Stones “Play With Fire”, recorded in ’85, has a heavy bottom end and a dark foreboding that I hardly think Mick and boys envisioned when they wrote it. (Although it’s said that Bill Wyman does have a copy of this version in his own personal collection.) Read gives a Dylanesque delivery on his version of Marc Bolan’s “Teenage Dream”. And Ray Manzarek and the LA mighty Horn Section contribute to the rootsy rock’n’roll of “Vipers of Harlem”, making it almost impossible for me to sit still as I’m trying to write this. Leave it to an iconic underground scenster and bona fide rock veteran to make me remember what it was that got me into music in the first place. I’d have to say that Darryl Read goes on that shelf in my collection in a place right next to the early Johnny “Guitar” Watson album 3 Hours Past Midnight…that special section that everyone’s got in their collection, that fucking with will result in a critical beatdown, even for your best of friends. | ||
----Christine
Natanael |
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