released May 19, 2016
Music & Lyrics by Robert Courtney
Robert Courtney: Vocals, 12 String Guitar, 12 String Fuzz Guitar, 12 String ‘Bass’ Guitar.
Radio on Berlin Presents guests Oyasumi live and sessions from Dub Syndicate, One Million Fuzztone Guitars / Skin Patrol and selector DJ Smart Monkey Radio-on-berlin
Monday 29 June 2015 at 20:00 – The Wirebender presents On the Mix
One Million Fuzztone Guitars live at The National Theatre, Southbank, London 1983.
“Handsome, debonair, and weird. Some times I’d think “this is way too weird, I wish they had one less fuzz-tone guitar”, and then another night I’d be thinking “damn this is normal, can’t they get another fuzz-tone guitar”. On reflection, I think you nailed it!” Dave Sketchley
Thank you Andrew Dickinson for finding the photographs!
We just need to find the tape and the film……..Big Jake.
‘Robin Hood’s Cave or Stables located within the site of the Church (Rock) Cemetery- Photo Credit: Joe Earp
Rev. George Oliver and Nottingham’s Druid Temple. Edwin Patchitt was the man who designed the Rock Cemetery. This is where Skin Patrol used to go to write songs after gigs around the time of the ‘Rock Section’ seances. He and his family are buried in quite an elaborate family plot. The location of the tomb is exactly positioned in what Oliver described as being the ‘arch druid’s cell’.
A stormer from the ‘Back to Rock Your World’ sessions, dig that FUZZ! Big Jake.
Four live takes from the 20th Century Box Sessions, featuring the (in Jim’s opinion) greatest version of ‘Blue Baby’, clocking in at just under 11 minutes! Big Jake.
The One Million Fuzztone Guitars follow up to ‘Guitars, Girls & God’, ‘Century 21’ is an album of Instrumental Rock recorded circa 1997. Big Jake.
It’s 1982 and it’s those crazy cats from OMFTG again, with a typically abandoned traditional Nottingham folkloric tale of Sex, Religion, Elvis, Nazis and Jim Morrison. Somehow this insanity managed to form the basis of their live sets for the next year. How Jim loved ‘Frogman’, said it was his favourite track ever, used to sing it in the bath, should have been a hit. Right, who’s gonna be Julie Andrews? Big Jake.
Ditching conventional rock in favour of stripped down stylophone based electronica Skin Patrol become One Million Fuzztone Guitars in ‘The Graveyard’ Studios in August 1981. Although only their self-penned originals can be featured here, the session also included (in Jim’s opinion), the ultimate version of the Doors’ ‘Five to One’, featuring Andrew on a classic vocal delivery over threatening minimalism, a haunting version of ‘Mack The Knife’ and two versions of what would become a live set favourite, ‘I Wanna Come Back (From The World of LSD). Take me back! Big Jake.
The unreleased 1984 follow up to ’26’ with the exception of ‘Rumour of Warm Blue’ that formed part of the Radio Trent Compilation LP. Featuring radical reworkings of One Million Fuzztone Guitars’ first single ‘Annuese’ and the Colours Out of Time classic ‘Mambo Girls Mambo’. Here in both their full stereo psychedelic glory and mono radio broadcast versions! Big Jake.
