Something can really be said about spontaneity, especially
in music. Now a days I feel it’s
almost a lost art. When you have
bands overly rehearse their material, and coordinate it with lights and effects
there’s really no room for any sort of improv. And that’s a shame because there
have been some FANTASTIC moments in rock history that were totally off the cuff
like the solo in Stairway to Heaven, Nirvana’s phenomenal stage performances, the
mid-song change in “wrong ‘Em Boyo,” and this: The Hindu Love Gods.
(Since
I was born a few years after these events transpired my account is hearsay, but
here it goes) By all accounts the
Hindu Love Gods were just kind of a on and off deal between Warren Zevon and
most of R.E.M. They would just
play shows consisting of blues covers, Zevon’s material, and some original
stuff that to my knowledge was never recorded. In 1987 Zevon was in the studio recording his album Sentimental
Hygiene (an album that’s a story in itself) the rest of the Love Gods were his
back up band. One (allegedly
drunken) night the band went into the studio, and recorded 10 blues staples
never intended for release. These,
of course, were later released as things recorded never to be released often
are. The resulting album had some
fantastic tracks including the opening track Walking Blues an awesome cover of
a Robert Johnson tune.
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