Lovers Buggers & Thieves
Garage Rock, Monster Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock, Folk Rock

Editor: Martin Jones
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Size: 171mm x 240mm
Page Count: 192
ISBN-13: 9781900486415
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Lost legends and supergroups, the best, worst and oddest music to emerge from the explosive rock'n'roll breeding ground of the 1960s through to the 1980s.

LOVERS BUGGERS & THIEVES offers fresh perspectives on the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles (a comprehensive guide to Fab Four bootlegs and "outfakes"), interviews with Australian garage punk and psych legends of the sixties, the musical legacy of Charles Manson, Skip Spence, The Monks, The Sonics, Bonzo Dog Band, Screaming Lord Sutch, and other music and musicians dragged back from the edge…

Foreword by Eddie Shaw, bass player for the legendary & influential Monks.
Introduction by Michael Lucas, bass player for The Phantom Surfers.

Acknowledgements
by Martin Jones 5

Foreword
by Eddie Shaw 6

Introduction
by Michael Lucas 7

THE SONICS
Supersomic psychogarage punk’s not dead
by Phil Tonge 8
Biography of the Seattle rockers — punk’s Godfathers

FANCIFUL FLIGHTS OF MIND
Australian Psychedelia of the Sixties
by Gerard Alexander 14
History and interviews on the psych scene

THE KEYS OF THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
It’s Monk time!
by Martin Jones 30
Interview with monks
by David Kerekes 37
The highly influential Germany based US garage outfit

SATAN YAWNS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
Led Zeppelin vs Iron Butterfly
by Johnny Strike 41
Fan-baiting punch-up

MY SHADOWS ARE RUNNING FAST
Charles Manson and the LIE album
by Simon Collins 48
Beyond the Manson myth

FORGOTTEN FREAKS
The Wild
By Sleazegrinder 62
Eighties Mexican metal band

MESSIAHS OF VOLTAGE
How The Stooges died for you
by Rik Rawling 68
The greatest rock’n’roll band on the planet

EDGAR BROUGHTON
Voyage Around An Underground Band
by Andy Darlington 95
The UK’s favourite seventies festival socio-rockers

RARER THAN RARE
Beatles Beatlegs & Outfakes
by David Kerekes 103
Fake Beatles ‘outtakes’ and the records they turn up on

THE 1970s BOOTLEG SCENE
A young collector in the South of England and dealers in the North
by Roger Sabin & David Kerekes 124
It was about being a fan

HERE COME SOME NORMALS
The Beast Inside The Bonzo Dog Band
by Martin Jones 132
The more disturbing songs of Vivian Stanshall & Co

YOU’RE DRIVING ME INSANE
Australian Garage Punk of the Sixties
by Gerard Alexander 142
History and interviews on the Garage scene

EL DISCO ES CULTURA
A Mexican Musical Overdose
by Joe Scott Wilson 154
Obscure (and unlistenable) south-of-the-border vinyl

ALL BLACK AND HAIRY
Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages
by David Kerekes 160
The late, great monster rocker & Raving Loony

LAWRENCE OF EUPHORIA
The Itinerant Life & Music Of Skip Spence
by Martin Jones 164
From Moby Grape to vagrancy — the rise and fall of the talented San Francisco musician

DISTURBO MUSIC
Each contributor to this book recalls an odd piece of music that has had a particularly profound & personal impact
1 Butterfly Mind|Simon Collins 13
2 Sound To Make You Shiver|Sleazegrinder 27
3 Five songs/Five artists|Andy Darlington 39
4 Into The Shrine|Joe Scott Wilson 46
5 Killer Nun|Martin Jones 61
6 Death Disco|Rik Rawling 131
7 Psycho-Killer|David Kerekes 141
8 The Bananamen|Phil Tonge 152
9 India Bharti|Gerald Alexander 159
10 After Low|Johnny Strike 163

Notes & Sources 182

Contributor Biographies 190

“Paranoid, insane ramblings and nuggets of sense — what rock writing should really be all about” Metal Hammer

"A hugely entertaining read" ICE

“Not for the easily offended” Mojo

“Touching much of the same ground as the beloved UGLY THINGS but with perhaps a broader spectrum, this initial volume includes several essays that will interest regular visitors to this site, including a really great article by editor Jones on the Monks” 60sgaragebands.com

“One for all the outsiders out there” Record Collector

“The lovingly detailed potted histories of The Monks, The Sonics and Skip Spence make this worth dipping into, at the very least” Rock Sound