Spacemen 3 - from out of the drone continuum, I finally sink my teeth into one of those bands that I’ve heard about since their era but have never been able to crack. I always used to see their album covers at RPM, though not necessarily Bill’s Records and Tapes, but I just never made the leap. I’d heard about their drug habits and I was young and halfway Catholic enough that that scared me. Jane’s Addiction was like that, too but they had MTV on their side so I was exposed to them enough to have been a fan during their lifetime. I had even dipped a toe into Spiritualized and knew more about them than I did the Spacemen. But seeing Sonic Boom’s interview for the Delia Derbyshire documentary intrigued me so I gave it a whirl and things have been going swell for me and Spacemen 3 here in 2022.
The tracks I’m liking - “Walking with Jesus”, “Losing Touch With My Mind”, “Suicide”, “When Tomorrow Hits”.
Lamonte Young - from out of the drone continuum. I was able to locate some live Lamonte Young, oddly enough, pretty current to Spacemen 3’s death throes—1991. It’s one of the stepdown transformer drones. I get it.
Mudhoney - “When Tomorrow Hits” - Spacemen 3 fallout.
Tangerine Dream - All these years after digging on the soundtrack to ‘Risky Business’ I’m now into the early 70s classics like Zeit. Rubycon, etc