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The group’s energetic songs took a new take on the post-Yardbirds sound that’s inspired generations of bands, done with enough respect for innovation to mindfully sidestep all the cliches of lame-assed Stones ripoff bands that sound as tired as Jagger’s looked for the past decade. Spurred on by Kaelin’s sometimes-melodic, sometime-tortured vocals, Bacon and Colvin’s well-honed rhythm machine, and smeared over with a shimmering wall of amplified guitar noise, the quartet’s live shows immediately garnered interest. Often the group would close the show with “Bleed Baby Bleed,�? a four-chord blaster Ray Davies wished he could’ve written, and guest cornet player Tony Wollard of the [[Belgian Waffles]] would add to the frenzy by bleated away over the ending. Reviews (http://www.tbw.nu/raves/fpc.shtml ) invoked Nuggets, the classic 1968 compilation of the best of the thousands of post-British invasion bands stateside, and not without good reason: the FPC included in their repertoire a version of the Spiders’ 1966 classic “Don’t Blow Your Mind.�? (For the uninformed, the Spiders were an Tucson, Arizona garage band fronted by one Vince Furnier. The band and later the man would later morph into ghoul rockers Alice Cooper.) | The group’s energetic songs took a new take on the post-Yardbirds sound that’s inspired generations of bands, done with enough respect for innovation to mindfully sidestep all the cliches of lame-assed Stones ripoff bands that sound as tired as Jagger’s looked for the past decade. Spurred on by Kaelin’s sometimes-melodic, sometime-tortured vocals, Bacon and Colvin’s well-honed rhythm machine, and smeared over with a shimmering wall of amplified guitar noise, the quartet’s live shows immediately garnered interest. Often the group would close the show with “Bleed Baby Bleed,�? a four-chord blaster Ray Davies wished he could’ve written, and guest cornet player Tony Wollard of the [[Belgian Waffles]] would add to the frenzy by bleated away over the ending. Reviews (http://www.tbw.nu/raves/fpc.shtml ) invoked Nuggets, the classic 1968 compilation of the best of the thousands of post-British invasion bands stateside, and not without good reason: the FPC included in their repertoire a version of the Spiders’ 1966 classic “Don’t Blow Your Mind.�? (For the uninformed, the Spiders were an Tucson, Arizona garage band fronted by one Vince Furnier. The band and later the man would later morph into ghoul rockers Alice Cooper.) | ||
By spring 1997, the quartet had recorded material with [[Paul Oldham]] (who would go on to become the live and studio engineer of choice for Royal Trux as well for his enigmatic brother Will) and was planning on releasing a split LP with local pals, the Beefheart-Fripp-inspired power trio the [[Calf- | By spring 1997, the quartet had recorded material with [[Paul Oldham]] (who would go on to become the live and studio engineer of choice for Royal Trux as well for his enigmatic brother Will) and was planning on releasing a split LP with local pals, the Beefheart-Fripp-inspired power trio the [[Calf-Fiends]]. However, the demise of the [[Calf-Fiends]] made the self-financed project look less realistic, and internal pressure split the band sometime in mid-1997. | ||
Louisville being a small town, and all parties involved being more-or-less dedicated to the pursuit of music, some shuffling was inevitable: Ludwig got behind the kit and got together with Bacon and the [[Calf- | Louisville being a small town, and all parties involved being more-or-less dedicated to the pursuit of music, some shuffling was inevitable: Ludwig got behind the kit and got together with Bacon and the [[Calf-Fiends]] frontman J. D. “Jack�? Daniels to form [[Das Kapitan]], while Colvin took over the drum throne for [[James Barber]]’s ‘77-style [[Nothing]]. Eventually Kaelin was recruited for [[Das Kapitan]], and the band of four songwriters underwent a virtual creative orgy in summer 1998, recording again with [[Paul Oldham]] at his newly refurbished Shelbyville studio before dissolving in the fall when Ludwig abruptly his return to the Keys. | ||
Co-existing alongside [[Das Kapitan]] was [[Dome Deevz]], which was started by guitarist [[Joe Hennessey]] after his departure from Louisville’s criminally underrated Swans-Joy Division-inspired [[Wino]]. The band began as a home-recording project with Kaelin, but eventually came to include Bacon and Colvin as well, who had played with Hennessey a few years prior in the short-lived noise rock group [[Droon]]. With all members rotating instruments and vocal duties, and adopting a more collective songwriting philosophy, the band explored territory beyond the more traditional singer-songwriter ethos of the members’ preceding groups. With the demise of [[Das Kapitan]], [[Dome Deevz]] solidified into more of a live band and began playing out more consistently throughout 1998 and 1999, doing local shows and a one-off at Baltimore hipster dive the Ottobar. | Co-existing alongside [[Das Kapitan]] was [[Dome Deevz]], which was started by guitarist [[Joe Hennessey]] after his departure from Louisville’s criminally underrated Swans-Joy Division-inspired [[Wino]]. The band began as a home-recording project with Kaelin, but eventually came to include Bacon and Colvin as well, who had played with Hennessey a few years prior in the short-lived noise rock group [[Droon]]. With all members rotating instruments and vocal duties, and adopting a more collective songwriting philosophy, the band explored territory beyond the more traditional singer-songwriter ethos of the members’ preceding groups. With the demise of [[Das Kapitan]], [[Dome Deevz]] solidified into more of a live band and began playing out more consistently throughout 1998 and 1999, doing local shows and a one-off at Baltimore hipster dive the Ottobar. | ||