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Originally Posted by nicfit
I know, kawabata made a wonderful collaboration with a band from my hometown too (now they're on sub pop, Jennifer Gentle, oh, how fast time goes by, I used to go and see them playing in school gyms and stuff and buy their self-pressed releases), I'm just a bit pissed, usually they do dates over here...
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I didn't know that. Jennifer Gentle rule! Just look at the spectacular list of influences on their myspace. These guys sure have good taste.
in no particular order: Can, Sun Ra, Joe Meek, Sparks, David Bowie, The Beatles, Link Wray, Oneida, Little Richard, Hasil Adkins, the Shaggs, Ash Ra Tempel, Queen, the Zombies, Captain Beefheart, Albert Ayler, Syd Barrett & early Pink Floyd, Federico Fellini, the Pretty Things, the Shangri-Las, Nurse With Wound, Edgar Allan Poe, Exuma, Faust, Bee Gees, the Kinks, Acid Mothers Temple, Franco Battiato, Johnny Burnette Trio, the Cramps, the Cure, Silver Apples, Suicide, Elvis Presley, Joy Division, Tom Waits, Mikhail Bulgakov, Velvet Underground, Algarnas Tradgard, Nico, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dario Argento, the Godz, Black Sabbath, Adriano Celentano, Cromagnon, Amon Duul I, Mario Bava, Roman Polanski, John Fahey, Funkadelic, James Brown, Modern Lovers, Brainticket, Fela Kuti, Goblin, Krysztof Komeda, Ennio Morricone, Devil Doll, Julian Cope, George Romero, Tobe Hooper & his Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Groundhogs, Death SS, Paolo Conte, Screamin' Lord Sutch, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Kim Fowley, Electric Light Orchestra, the Move, Lee Scratch Perry, the 13th Floor Elevators, Chrome, Simply Saucer, Comus, Frank Zappa, Kalachakra, Love, Marc Bolan & T.Rex, Jan Dukes De Grey, R.Stevie Moore, Lula Cortes & Zé Ramalho, Blue Cheer, Los Dug-Dug's, Bobb Trimble, Happy Dragon Band, Hackamore Brick, Creme Soda, Plastic People of the Universe and on and on and on...
http://www.myspace.com/jennifergentle