X-TREEMS Facts of Life 1966 FUZZ GARAGE PSYCH 45 LISTEN

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

THE XTREEMS "Facts of Life" b/w "Substitute"

Original 1966 45 on the STAR TREK label

Vinyl:  SUPER CLEAN, plays EXCELLENT!

Hope you like fuzz, 'cuz this one's drenched in the stuff.  There's more fuzz on this little '66 single than a whole pack of Mugato.  That's the albino gorillas from  Star Trek, by the way, just my way of keeping the whole Star Trek theme going.  I gotta wonder why, though, everything else on both sides of this rare single is so crudely recorded except for the fuzz.  I mean, their cover of the Who's "Substitute" is the very definition of lo-fi teen basement garage punk, except for the all-up-in-yer-face Harry Mudd-style blistering fuzz solo!  And "Facts of Life" is a GREAT garage punk original that sounds like Max Frost's "Shape of Things To Come" recorded deep inside the Horta's mining tunnels, except again for that ear-piercing fuzz.  It's completely illogical, weirder than the Salt Vampires of Deneb V, but hey, what do I know, I'm a record collector, not a doctor!  Of course, a garage punk single this great should be widely comped, and it is - you'll find "Facts of Life" on Shadows Falling, Relics 1, Psychedelic Unknowns 3, Mayhem and Psychosis 3 and Leonard Nimoy's second album.  While "Substitute" appears on Journey to Tyme 3, Garage Zone 2 and, in highly dramatic spoken word form, on William Shatner's Transformed Man.  Wonder if Gene Roddenberry's lawyers ever tried to sue over the Star Trek brand name label?  Unless, of course, that really is DeForest Kelley on fuzz...

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