Time is moving - forward, backward in your undeveloped brain. Calling out for that steam powered man to outrun the train. But those goddamned men, with their goddamned fists want to crush us all. Treating people like little children. Their backs against the wall.
Everybody’s always talkin’ ‘bout the fireball thats heading to the Earth. And everybody’s yelling ‘Lordy, Lordy, hallelujah’. What is it worth?
Early days when your world would freeze if you ever thought to believe in something so wrong, so goddamned hideous, you’d take it to your grave. Like the hound dog fever, them ancient flowers, that dust inside the tomb. Holy men with their holy power, they fight you in the womb.
Everybody’s always talkin’ ‘bout the fireball thats heading to the Earth. And everybody’s yelling ‘Lordy, Lordy, hallelujah’. What is it worth?
[Lewis]
White Magick Summer LP anniversary sale!
Save money on your next favorite record!
To mark the one year anniversary of the debut album by the Velcro Lewis Group, the White Magick Summer LP is now on sale for a limited time. Thanks to Spiral Staircase Records, you can save some dough and add a great piece of wax to your collection. Get the vinyl for a mere $6 + shipping! Can you believe it?
if you buy the record you will be given a ‘special’ download link to access a bunch of out of print and rare VLG tracks. Pretty amazing, right? This download package will include the band’s 2006 debut EP, The Oven’s On as well as some live recordings, jams and other assorted weirdness.
When Valium is mandatory and your ears and head ache from magnetic testings, strip it all and enjoy the bright lights and interrupting bleeps/bloorps.
Post MRI listening.
Review from SIGNAL TO NOISE magazine
Review from Signal To Noise magazine:
“White Magick Summer” is full of veritable fist-pumpin, call-to-arms anthems, albeit drenched in a stoned haze and a truly rare commodity— personality. Phil Hunger’s jaw-dropping guitar spectrum (from chicken-pickin to feral blasts), Hawk Coleman’s soaring soul-shouts, Velcro’s biker gargles, topped off by Lawrence Peter’s fierce washboard (yes, washboard) all makes for a satisfying psyched stew. “Steam Powered man” comes off like acid-era Chambers Brothers or maybe a more fully fleshed-out Death (from Detroit) on stimulants, as chugging washboard (yes washboard!) and overamped guitars (some stunning Tony Hill-like slide work too) drive the whole reverbed runaway train off the tracks. “Fall to Pieces” holds together nicely with a fried garagey keyboard line, while waves of wah wah and delayed background vocals cascade in and out. Electric Mud(dy) and late 60s Edwin Starr duke it out on “Half A Man” while a gang of rowdy bikers circle their cycles—then all are seemingly sucked into a vacuum during the space-out ending. “Trouble Down Below” has all the bluster of Steppenwolf and Mountain, but with a barreling bassline that will scare you shitless and some strange middle-eastern horns (synth?) that sends the whole thing into another universe—and that’s just side 1! Fiercely satisfying through and through.” - Plastic Crimewave
East Village Radio’s BEYOND BEYOND IS BEYOND program is not only a seriousy great show, but they are giving away colored vinyl copies of the FALL TO PIECES/HALF A MAN single. Artwork by Plastic Crimewave.
The Velcro Lewis Group is a band from Chicago, IL.
The band specializes in rock, rhythm and blues, occasionally playing psychedelic rock as well as other experiments such as synthesis, instrument construction, performance and useless things. This TUMBLR site was created to share ourselves and our obsessions with other freaks and introverts.
We will post video, audio and other projects we are working on periodically.
www.velcrolewis.com
