rare WHITE LABEL PROMO

Condition:  EX+/NM-

Wazoo

   

Personnel: ROBERT DiPASQUALE vcls A JOHN FINAN A KONSTANTINE GEORGE KATSAKIS sax A "BOCKY" (SIMON IAN) trumpets, perc A FELIX McDANIELS A VINCE SCALABRINO perc A "WIZAR D." A

 

RELEASES: 

ALBUM: 1(A) WAZOO (Zig Zag ZZ 217) 1970 R1  

45: 1 Hey Girl I'm In Love With You/Don't Give Your Love To Anyone (R&R R 103) 1969  

From Cleveland, Ohio. Their 45 was issued on a New York City label and comprises of late sixties soft pop-rock - not 'garage' as sometimes claimed. It sounds not dissimilar to later (Young) Rascals material - pleasant but very average.

The obscure Wazoo LP on an equally obscure Michigan label is strange indeed - the personnel as listed above is sketchy due to the lack of info on the gatefold sleeve, with its welter of named and unnamed photos, but Robert DiPasquale had previously been in Bocky and The Visions. Musically the album contains an odd mix of brassy jazz-rock with The Fugs and lots of weird s**t thrown in: anti-war and anti-establishment jibes, some nice baroque touches, a soupcon of avant-garde, some heady lyrics, and barrages of war and off-the-wall sound effects... all of which make for a challenging listen. Noteworthy moments include: the eleven minute jazz-psych trip of The Way I See It; the bluesy fuzz of Sleep On; the amazing bad-trip noise of Arnie Funny Far Fackor which should only be listened to in a padded room; and the excellent heavy fuzz-and-feedback blast of BH Man that closes the album in a more accessible acid-rock vein.

George Katsakis recalls:- "I was also the leader of a group formed in 1958 called the Royaltones. I used the name Konstantine because it was my father's name. The Wazoo album was recorded in Novi, Michigan at a studio that was owned by Bob Adell. The studio was located in a building that is now known as the Novi Expo Center and Arnie of Arniefunnyfarfacker was the recording engineer".

(Max Waller / George Gell / George Katsakis)

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