Music to Eat (Hampton Grease Band): C/D

RIP Col. Hampton. You were one of a kind and will be missed.

I saw Bruce and friends in a bar in Little 5 Points in Atlanta pre-ARU, mustve been mid-80s, and they were wonderful. A nice, druggy melange of The Mothers, The Magic Band, and The Firesign Theatre. I enjoyed it very much. He was certainly admired by the group of u-ground music weirdos I fell in with upon moving there, and it was easy to see/hear why. And outside of the impossibly weird (and still unknown to me) band I saw in Athens opening for All (of all bands), Hampton's band definitely the best show I saw in those few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuVBEL4BemQ

Holy shit, this album is incredible. Well, except for "Maria", that is. Take that off and this is probably a perfect record. I expected it to fizzle out after "Halifax" (and "Maria" had me plenty worried), but it's so good.

Absolutely fantastic write-up about the band by Jesse Jarnow over at Aquarium Drunkard:

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/12/08/lost-live-grease-recovering-the-hampton-grease-band/

I need to figure out where to track down some of those recordings he mentions.