Anyone like SWA?

I actually listened to some To Damascus last night! First side of Come To Your Senses. It was buried in the back of a cupboard next to Minuteflag and that dodgy Yanamamos thing on New Alliance that Grant Hart played on. Anyhow, I quite liked it! Juncosa sounds both quite spiky and very fluid, creating these glistening little rockpools then immediately strafing them with bullets. Reminded me a bit of Curt Kirkwood, and I guess they share that thing where their voices are all dopey and wayward, but they're still really nailing those notes at the same time.

"Winter"

What will you do? Where will you go
When the cold winds start to blow?
The children all know
The winter is here!
Yes, it's here!

Dark is the day
When we find that we have lost our way
Caught in the storm
Further from the chosen path we stray
Can't you hear what all the children say?

Seasons they change and so should we
When all refuse to see
The winter is here!
Yes, it's here!

The power we gave
They abused and used it to enslave
Put us all into an early grave

In this old world (?)
Where children can grow
You only reap what you sow
Or didn't you know?

(Buried vocals)
Can't escape from the storm
Find shelter, safe and warm
The winter is here!
Yes, it's here!

Fools are the wise
Who would blindly trade the truth for lies
See it written in the children's eyes

Lovers were found lost on the road
In frozen embrace in the snow
The children all know!
The winter is here!

http://www.musiq.pl/images/35/SWA_Winter.jpg

Their live performance on THE TOUR VHS (SSTV 02) flies high & mightily, showing them doing that out/free-hardrock thing they patented, to great effect. (Get it quick - it's available in booted DVD form on e-bay)

SEE: Dukowski pumpin' away on bass like a human steamboiler! Merrill stutter-steppin' like Jagger on speed! The twin-leads of Ray Cooper & Richard Ford circling/scattering like bloodthursty hyenas in the night! And Greg Cameron drumming, mooring it all like a railroad spike driven straight through the foot.

Sure beat the pants offa the HUSKERS, and maybe the MEAT PUPPETS too (but not SACCHARINE TRUST. Never.)

As usual, there appears to be only like 2 people in the audience. People are stupid, ya know?

BTW: I also once had a tape of a KXLU "Braincookies" live performance of theirs - as I recall, it was 1 continuous, 40-min. improvised heavy jam. Just nuts. Wish I still had that. Hell - wish I still had a tape player.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu6VQt2QiiI

Arroyoooooooooooooo! She's my arroyooooo!

The squaw on guitar is Sylvia Juncosa amirite?

man the Chuck Dukowski Sextet certainly is Dukowskian. RIYL if you like SWA or Wurm, i.e. if you're me and no one else on planet earf