Rock Revival
* Major Stars: On (21.5 mb)
From The Rock Revival : Twisted Village : TW-1044 CD
In addition to running Twisted Village, a record label and one of the best record stores I’ve ever been to, Wayne Rogers and Kate Village are incredibly awesome musicians coming from the psychedelic vein. For over 20 years, they’ve been forging their own musical paths and making the music that they want to make. Their longest running, most consistent project is the rock behemoth otherwise known as Major Stars.
Wayne Rogers and Kate Bigger’s vast output is an essential touchstone for psych heads, but they’re often snubbed in scene round-ups and other psychedelic primers. If discussed at all, mentions barely move beyond standard-issue guitar freak-out metaphors. Worse, the two are spoken of in the past tense. It’s particularly surprising that their excellent current project, Major Stars, hasn’t noticeably benefited from the renewed interest in Blue Cheer raucousness and distended fret shredding. They did collaborate on Live In Europa, a split LP with Comets on Fire, but otherwise seem to be shuffling along a murky path toward underground respect sans popular recognition.
(from Pitchfork)
This track is from their debut album and is totally great, two guitar inspired raucousness. This song starts relatively simply, with the first couple minutes or so sounding almost like a regular pop song. This doesn’t last for long though before they get down and dirty, deconstructing the song for the next ten minutes. Of course, all the guitar psychedelia in the world would sound like crap without a rock solid rhythm section anchoring the whole thing down. Which is definitely what we have here, with Tom Leonard on bass and Dave Lynch on monster drums.
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