Black Honey

DO YOU REMEMBER...that legendary Big Star gig at the Matrix in '66, or how 'bout Moby Grape's killer punk comeback on Dangerhouse in '77, or yeah, the fragile beauty of that period when Garcia & The Warlocks '65 mutated into Mark Smith & The Fall '78...remember? No? Well, the Bon Vivants remember these things and many more, whether they 'happened' or not. Heck, on this new Gulcher album, they 'really' do a cover of the Mothers' 'I'm Not Satisfied' that has the brain-scrubbed freshness of, say, The Daily Flash or The Sons Of Adam, rather than Zappa's cynical crew. Post-punk 'n folk-rock (NOT 'freak folk,' eeek!), power-pop 'n acid-rock, howlin' at the Georgia moon like a lonely 16-year-old geek even as you stare at so-called middle-age in defiance. Television Personalities Soft Boys Swell Maps 'n Mr. Barrett hisself...post-Cale VU and the ghost of Arthur Lee...kids still 70s-drunk and runnin' free! SNAP! MANGLE! POP!