There’s a sort of industrial sub-genre of power-tool-weilding non-musicians — Test Dept, SPK, almost no-one else.<\/a><\/p>\nTo this list must be added Z’ev – who I think was the first. He was absolutely amazing live as well – lots of wonderful reverberations and so on which were quite calming, rather than the patented bish bash bosh clang of metal as percussion. Don’t think he used tools, but the metal as instrument thing. Innit. Er, hangover today. I got messed up last night and ending up in a really rambling ranty conversation about Wilhelm Reich getting his books burned by the US government. I was basically trying to say that just because he had his books burnt didn’t automatically mean his ideas were all alright, but inevitably this all came out horribly wrong. Pretty funny though, I’m sure some people will now always think of me as “the book burning bloke we met that time”.<\/p>\n
Oh and people always mention “Tools You Can Trust” but I have no idea about them, possibly because they were rubbish. And Pookie Snackenburger who went on to be “Stomp” I think? Sort’ve palatable metal bashing for the theatre-goers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paul on metal bashing. There’s a sort of industrial sub-genre of power-tool-weilding non-musicians — Test Dept, SPK, almost no-one else. To this list must be added Z’ev – who I think was the first. He was absolutely amazing live as well – lots of wonderful reverberations and so on which were quite calming, rather than …<\/p>\n
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