People! Join us! Become martyrs in the overthrow of the dated paradigm of the guitar based rock combo! Guitar has six strings but unfortunately we must possess merely five fingers. Rise up and smash the tyrannical rule of the corrupt six string guitar, the core of all evil!
One band sees the truth and dares to take a stand - The Six String Sonics! (download video, 18 meg quicktime). One band, with esteemed members of DMBQ, The Volume Dealers, Wiggle, Kirihito Group, Hellchild and Boryoku Onsen Geisha, climbs jungle gym-like structure to break up imperial hegemony of guitar based rock. Six guitarists, each playing single string guitar celebrating the freedom and throwing off shackles of uncreative insect-like power pop twelve string jangle strum jangle bend the string la la la. No more~!
Long live the indissoluble union of the working class, drum-based peasantry, and national intelligentsia!
To my tin ears, it sounds a lot like the early-80s version of King Crimson.
Posted by: M.Ace | January 27, 2006 at 08:15 PM
Have they released anything in the way of records? This stuff is just amazing... Like all experimental japanese music, it hits you like a cruel overdose of opiates.
Posted by: zachery | January 28, 2006 at 04:03 PM