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The Godz

Title: Contact High with The Godz

Label: ESP DISK

Cat No:ESP1037
Format:CD

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• In print in the U.S. for the first time since it came out 44 years ago (previous CD editions were produced under license by German and Italian companies), the legendary album ‘Contact High with the Godz’ is once again available for adventurous listeners who value creativity over conformity.

• The Godz were part of the Lower East Side scene that produced post-beat avant-hippie rockers/performance artists the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders, as well as beat performers like Allen Ginsberg. The Godz consisted of Jim McCarthy (guitar, vocals, flute, harmonica), Larry Kessler (bass, vocals, violin, guitar), Paul Thornton (drums, guitar, vocals), and Jay Dillon (autoharp, keyboards).

• When they went into the studio on September 18, 1966, there was no precedent for what they did. The weirdest and most far-out bands around at that time were the Monks and the Mothers of Invention. The first albums of the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, and the Grateful Dead all lay in the future.

• The title ‘Contact High with the Godz’ might suggest psychedelia, but even that freewheeling style, still yet to blossom, would come nowhere near the freedom and sheer avant-gardeness of what The Godz did on their first LP.

• As ESP owner Bernard Stollman puts it, they were the Sex Pistols of their time. Sounding like a prototype for Half Japanese or the Shaggs, the Godz play as if they discovered their instruments ten minutes before the tape started rolling.

Track Listing for Contact High with The Godz
1. Turn On
2. White Cat Heat
3. Na Na Naa
4. Eleven
5. 1+1=?
6. Lay in the Sun
7. Squeak
8. Godz
9. May You Never Be Alone Like Me

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