Tuesday 26 March 2019

Get Lost! - Live @ The Underground 4.10.2002 + Never Come Back (Voodoo Rhythm Records 2002)


The Get Lost were a Garage Rock band formed in 2000 in Bern, Switzerland by founding members of the Portland, Oregon eighties garage revival band, The Miracle Workers. Members included Gerry Mohr (vox,guitar), Robert Butler (bass, guitar) Chris Rosales (drums) and Kat Aellen (bass). The group recorded one LP for Switzerland's Voodoo Rhythm Records in 2001 entitled "Never Come Back".    -Source



Picking up where the Miracle Workers' classic Inside Out left off, former members Gerry Mohr and Robert Butler, himself also the founder of garage legends the Untold Fables, have promised to ignore all the modern trends and bring to the world the most fuzzed-out psychedelic/garage trio yet: the GET LOST!
After the Workers ended in the early 90s Butler moved to Switzerland and played with bassist Kat Aellen in the heavy psych group "Bishops Daughter" and garage beat-band "The In-Sekt." Throughout the 90s they also produced and engineered recordings for dozens of bands wanting their trademark hard-hitting sound, including a number of releases on the highly-respected Voodoo Rhythm label. With Voodoo Rhythm chief Lightning Beat-Man, they shocked and sickened audiences across Europe in the legendary spectacle/ritual/show/circus, the Bad Taste Rock'n'Roll Revue.
Meanwhile, former Miracle Workers vocalist Gerry Mohr was singing under the name "Malcolm Crowne" for the American psych supergroup the Cavemanish Boys, whose album was released in 1999. Mohr moved to Switzerland in the summer of 2000, and during a casual jam-session the three realized there was unfinished business at hand. They resolved to form a new band, one which would put to work all they had learned in their years of writing, performing and producing the world's greatest psych and beat music.
Believing that only the loudest and most savage rhythms could compliment the howling fuzz of their songs, it was decided that Chris Rosales, also an American ex-patriot and drummer well-known around Switzerland and elsewhere for his pounding with Lightning Beat-man's group, "The Never Heard Of 'Ems," The "In-Sekt", "Les Super Supers soul revue", and currently with The Reverend Beat-man's band, would be offered the chance to regularly destroy his drums on-stage with The Get Lost.
After signing a lucrative deal with Voodoo Rhythm Records in 2001, the band flew to London to record their debut waxing, "Never Come Back". The trademark "vintage" sounds from producer Liam Watson's Toe Rag studios proved a perfect match for the Get Lost's dynamic rock'n'roll attack.
In the fall of 2001 Bassist Kat Aellen left the band to devote more time to her new band the Mad Cow Girls. A few months later with Butler now on bass, the Get Lost emerged as a three piece ready to head out on the road for thier first tour of Europe planned in Spring of 2002.    -Source


Get Lost! - Live @ The Underground 4.10.2002 (Direct@WAVE)    320

*** All the credit is due to MiTcH uSeLeSs ***
 

Get Lost! - Never Come Back (Voodoo Rhythm Records 2002)


Für Leute, die mittlerweile sämtlich die 30 überschritten haben, gab es Mitte der Achtziger eine Band, die in Sachen Garagen-Punk das absolute Konsensding waren: die MIRACLE WORKERS. Manche gehen sogar so weit, sie als die beste Garagenband aller Zeiten zu bezeichnen, was immer dann schwer fällt zu glauben, wenn man sie selbst nie live gesehen hat.
Gitarrist der MIRACLE WORKERS war ein gewisser Robert Butler, der nach dem Ende der MIRACLE WORKERS Mitte der Neunziger in die Schweiz übersiedelte und dort mit Bands wie BISHOP'S DAUGHTER oder IN SEKT weiterhin Musik machte - wie auch in den diversen Bands von Voodoo Rhythm-Boss Beat-Man.
Und hier fängt der Kreis an sich zu schließen: Als der einstige MIRACLE WORKERS-Frontmann Gerry Mohr nach dem Ende seiner CAVEMANISH BOYS ebenfalls in die Schweiz zog, kam es, wie es kommen musste.
Mohr und Butler fingen an zusammen Musik zu machen, und nachdem mit Kat Aellen eine Bassistin gefunden hatte und Robert Chris Rosales, mit dem er bei LIGHTNING BEAT-MAN und REV. BEAT-MAN gespielt hat, als Drummer gewinnen konnte, war das Line-Up von GET LOST perfekt.
Logisch, dass dann für die Album-Aufnahmen nicht irgend ein Studio ausgesucht wurde, nein, es musste schon das Londoner Toe Rag-Studio mit Liam Watson himself als Produzent sein, und dass bei so viel geballtem musikalischem Sachverstand dann eigentlich nichts schief gehen konnte, war beinahe klar.
Und bei diesen Einflüssen überrascht auch das Ergebnis nicht weiter: GET LOST! setzen genau da an, wo Butler und Mohr Mitte der Neunziger getrennte Wege gingen, führen das Erbe der MIRACLE WORKERS fort, spielen mitreißenden, fuzzig-psychedelischen Garagenpunk der Extraklasse.
Das tun sie durchaus im Hier und Jetzt, will heißen man legt keinen großen Wert darauf, jetzt besonders altmodisch zu klingen. Ein feines Album, das einmal mehr beweist, dass Voodoo Rhythm derzeit ganz klar das heisseste europäische Rock'n'Roll-Label ist.    -Joachim Hiller

Get Lost! - Never Come Back (Voodoo Rhythm Records 2002) FLAC    320 

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2 comments:

  1. This is one excellent listen. Thanks to the max.

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    1. Always nice to hear from you, especially if you have fun with the music I post.

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