The Godz ('70s hard-rock band): Classic or Dud?

(The speech is about Godz-style rock 'n' roll freaks:

"Someday they'll be thousands of us...
More of us than there are of them"

With thousands?

If you liked that, then you'll be ticked by the Godz 2-CD box just
issued. It cherry picks the best of the old catalog and adds quite a bit of material from the live vaults and three tunes with Eric Moore backed by American Dog, which is as close as you're going to get to a
Godz recreation in 2003. I expected to be disappointed but the newer
material picks up the same heavy, cranked boogie of the first.
Good take on an old Bobby Gentry tune, too.

"Go Away" is one of the better "get out of my room now, slut"
songs in metal. "He's A Fool" is fairly good self-knowing comedy.
I was hoping for a retake on the Quaaludes boogie, "714," but you
can't have everything. A live set features a numbskull FM radio
host being played to good effect by Moore.

Haha, great! I shall look for this.

So do Billion Dollar Babies and they had only one vinyl record.

and fuck zeppelin, where's my 3 dvd live captain beyond set.

(George, have you heard this?! I'm curious what area the bonus tracks are from...)

I hope so. They only had to find a half-assed replacement for
Mick Ronson and they even failed at that.

The bonus tracks are mostly fron "Didja Miss Me" and "Goin' Back to
Texas," which recycled "Didja Miss Me." Some of it is terrible,
Nitzinger trying feverishly to sound modern and failing. "Rap is
Crap" -- if you're going to call a genre crap your song about it
ought not to be as this one sure is. "Jellyroll Blues" comes
from "Live at Mar-Y-Sol" and the original is OK. He remade it on
"Going Back to Texas" and it's only amusing in that he seems
to realize about three-quarters of the way through that he's made
a horrible fool of himself as a kind-of-lame middle-aged man insulting a former girlfriend.

The remakes of material from "Nitzinger" and "Live Better Electrically" are fair to good, they dress up in a good way
the production on the Seventies originals which I always felt was
dull.

In other words, the new stuff really doesn't justify buying
such a box. I liked most of "Nitzinger" and some of "Live
Better Electrically" and that's about all the man was ever good
for. He should have taken back and redone some of the songs
he wrote for Bloodrock.

Yeah, how 'bout Ramatam? I demand Ramatam.

I knew this lp trader dude from Cleveland who claimed to have a tape of the unreleased 2nd Granicus record. I always meant to pester him for a dub of it, but being the slacker I am, I never followed through.

I'm surprised anyone remembers the Godz......

"everybody's some kinda junkie...."

As noted above, I'm willing to bet for a lot of us it comes down to Chuck Eddy (I have two albums taped from radio station vinyl).

Define that. It took a certain amount of unseriousness by
band and fan alike to grasp the full measure of the soliloquy
in "Gotta Keep a Runnin'" and songs like..."Under the Table" and
"714."

After the first edition of Riot croaked one of 'em, Sandy Slavin,
inquired about a drummer opening in the Highway Kings. Great
band but they never could achieve any traction.

At least half and half.

Is the puniness of the number meant as parody?

Nope, but it was a happy accident that it wound up sounding so.

I picked up Godz II while I was home last weekend; golly does that Beatles cover kill. And Radar Eyes! And Crusade! And Permanent Green Light!

>>I'm surprised anyone remembers the Godz......
>As noted above, I'm willing to bet for a lot of us it comes down to Chuck Eddy (I have two albums taped from radio station vinyl).

I think I got into 'em indirectly through my uncle. He introduced me to Pearls Before Swine years ago, and through them I started listening to other ESP releases. Arr num num num.

There really should be a thread about the earlier Godz though, if there isn't. You definitely should hear their first album Contact High, too! It's just as good and has the great "White Cat Heat" on it. You would love it.

(haha there is a Columbus Rock & Roll Hall of Fame !! Where the fuck are Great Plains and the Gibson Bros. ??)