(BEASTS OF BOURBON-The Axeman’s Jazz)-Tex Perkins-H7-LP

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ITEM: VINYL 12” LP 33 1/3rpm
ARTIST: BEASTS OF BOURBON
TITLE: The Axeman’s Jazz
COUNTRY PRINTED: OZ
CAT No: GREEN, BT-7032 (1984)
COVER: (Grade at NEAR MINT+)
LABELS: (Grade at NEAR MINT-)
VINYL: (Grade at NEAR MINT-)
PERSONNEL:
· Artwork – Tex Perkins
· Bass – Boris Sujdovic
· Drums – James Baker (2)
· Guitar – Kim Salmon, Spencer P. Jones
· Recorded By – Tony Cohen
· Vocals – Tex Perkins
  TRACKS:
A1 Evil Ruby
  A2 Love And Death
  A3 Graveyard Train
  A4 Psycho
  B1 Drop Out
  B2 Save Me A Place
  B3 Lonesome Bones
  B4 The Day Marty Robbins Died
  B5 Ten Wheels For Jesus
    COMMENT:  Wikipedia 
 Beginnings:
The group were thrown together by vocalist Tex Perkins to fulfill a booking his previous band, Tex Deadly and the Dum-Dums, could no longer make. The band began playing together in small venues in Sydney. The initial version of the group included Spencer P. Jones of The Johnnys, Boris Sudjovic and Kim Salmon of The Scientists and James Baker of Hoodoo Gurus. Recruited in large part because they were often found in the Southern Cross, an inner-city Sydney bar, these members form what is considered by some to be the 'classic' line-up. This lineup was featured on the band's first album, The Axeman's Jazz, recorded in 1984 in a single afternoon for one hundred dollars by Tony Cohen. The album was an excursion into deranged Gothic country and western,[citation needed] with a strong sense of irony and irreverence toward country music's clichés.[citation needed] A cover of "Psycho" was a hit on alternative radio.[citation needed] Although the album became an underground success, the band continued, for the time being, to be a side project for its members until 1988.

     Later years:
The Beasts of Bourbon grew from being a side project to become a true supergroup of the Australian pub rock scene. The original line-up fell apart in 1984 when the Scientists left Australia to tour overseas; fill-ins included Stu Spasm of Lubricated Goat and Brad Shepherd of Hoodoo Gurus. When both the Johnnys and the Scientists fell apart, however, the original line-up reunited in 1987, to record another album, Sour Mash in 1988. The swamp-rock of The Axeman's Jazz had given way to a fusion of blues-based pub rock and punk with great effect.[Neutrality is disputed] Black Milk, recorded in 1990, expanded on this idea.

  After a show in Berlin in April 2008, the group cancelled their remaining tour dates and ended the band. Rumours say that a heated drunken argument between Tex Perkins and Spencer P Jones forced Spencer to return to Australia immediately with no intention of continuing the Beasts project.

   Style:
The Beasts of Bourbon's music has often been compared[who?] to that of a rougher Rolling Stones (whose "Cocksucker Blues" they covered),[citation needed] The Gun Club[citation needed] (who they played with and who some Beasts of Bourbon members filled in for) and The Birthday Party.[citation needed] In Germany, the band were described as "Muddy Waters on crack".[citation needed] Their music is an amalgam of country music, blues, rock and roll and punk rock parsed through the garage sound of The Stooges and the drunken mayhem[citation needed] of Australian pub rock. It often touches on themes of depravity, morbidity, despair, drug abuse and violence.

  VINYL GRADING SYSTEM

MINT:
RECORD: New condition with no surface marks or loss of sound quality.
COVER: New condition with no surface marks, creases or wear.
NEAR MINT:
RECORD: Barely noticeable surface mark with no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Barely noticeable surface mark/ wear.
EXCELLENT:
RECORD: Some signs of being played with extremely little if no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Slight wear or creasing.
VERY GOOD:
RECORD: Obviously been played with noticeable surface marks & the occasional light scratches but exhibits no major loss of sound quality.
COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
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