Where is the LOVE for STACKWADDY?

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They had an album entitled "Bugger Off!" They sounded like they would be more than happy to tell you to BUGGER OFF, possibly by hitting you with a microphone stand, breaking your collar bone. They did lots of covers and instrumentals: "The Girl from Ipanema," "Willie the Pimp," "Sure 'Nuff & Yes I Do," "Repo Boogie," "Bring It to Jerome," and "Meat Pies Have Come But Band's Not Here Yet." Hiwatt in a small cinder block garage with power drunks. Singer was fond of imitating Captain Beefheart/Wolfman Jack/Howlin' Wolf.

― Joe Jack Peel, Monday, 7 March 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. I got the CD comp of both albums recently and still haven't gotten to play it. I really liked it when I heard it before.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 7 March 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

stop asking where the LOVE is for my favorite albums, people. i like the self-titled album a little bit more, maybe. "mystic eyes" and "rosalin" are both off the chain.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link

It is to expose your good taste. I used to blab about Stackwaddy and idjits would think I was expressing admiration for ShowWaddyWaddy or whatever they were called. Stackwaddy were room clearing and woman-hating in a loud and antique manner. Listen close to those albums, they were recorded close to live, and you hear the constant rattling and chirping of a worn pre-amp tube in someone's guitar amplifier. It adds to the fuzz and general din.

― Joe Jack GS Peel, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link

God, just listening to this again now and thinking about the three responses so far on this thread and how overlooked these guys are. They have a gritty singularity that I can only compare to the first Seeds album. They were like the Downliners Sect of heavy blues rock or something.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link

the only other band i can think of that compares to stackwaddy is edgar broughton band ca. "wasa wasa." and that's high praise going both ways.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link

how did I miss this thread earlier today??

shit dog, the love for STACKWADDY is right fuckin HERE.

I have both LPs. I even sought out an original of the first LP off eBay, because I didn't want to buy that twofer CD on See For Miles which EXCISED songs from the first record in order to fit on one disc!!

They fuckin RULE

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:00 (nineteen years ago) link

when Peel died, Stackwaddy was the first thing I reached for, no joke.

Then I listened to Siren and Medicine Head.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Tractor weren't so good, though.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:05 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah I don't dig the Tractor as much. The Way We Live was better.

but I'm dead serious about the Medicine Head LOVE. first album anyway.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Yep, definite Edgar Broughton thing going on although only the occasional live cuts I've heard from EB get exactly into the same territory. Stackwaddy were really hairy/manly sounding: we're slumming from our day jobs in the grease pit. Much more focused and hating than the Pink Fairies or the Deviants, bands of which I am also fond.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Pink Fairies are my all time favorite band, you have no idea. I live in a building that has incredibly good soundproofing. In 4 years of living here I have only had noise complaints from the neighbors on about 3 occasions. One of those times, I was blasting Kings of Oblivion so fuckin loud you wouldn't believe it. Everything cranked to 10. At like 3 AM. I only got about halfway through "I Wish I Was A Girl" until someone started angrily pounding on the door...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link

EBB have a brand NEW archival live CD that just came out:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002ZUI8M/ref=wl_itt_dp/103-4204839-3895845?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=IAPKQJ753JC8V&v=glance&colid=GTCJA3EQ4AFQ

I am dying to hear it..

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:19 (nineteen years ago) link

version of "Dropout Boogie" !!!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:20 (nineteen years ago) link

"Much more focused and hating than the Pink Fairies or the Deviants"

Yeah, but listening to Stackwaddy is also this zen drone experience sort of like listening to a Sandy Bull album!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link

So am I. It was in Amoeba a week or so ago but when I went back for it, as usual, gone. There are some live cuts included on the reissues of EBB and "Wasa Wasa" and they're tantalizing. A band that had a great deal of trouble of communicating a desire to engineers on how to get the live sound to tape. Someting Stackwaddy didn't. Perhaps it was the presence of John Peel ensuring what went to tape was what he liked in hearing the band.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Need to hear Stackwaddy! Love the Broughtons though! (Had a highly weird drunk conversation about 'Out Demons Out' with a total stranger who'd just handed me some freak-rock flyer in some Brighton pub on Friday night... didn't know it at the time, cos he looked so debonair and all, but dude turned out to be C@pt@1n S3nsib!e. Wuh? Hahahaha!)

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link

From Jasper & Oliver's International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock & Heavy Metal:

Stackwaddy Premier British heavy boogie band of the early 1970s. They have a rawer sound even than Motorhead.

― Joe Jack Peel, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

How did I miss out on these guys for so long? I wonder if I've been conflating them with Showaddywaddy for decades now? Either way, I ordered that 3xCD So Who the Hell is comp last week and it's great! Greasy, raw hard rock with vocals that somehow make Captain Beefheart seem downright refined? Yes, please!

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link

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