Friday, January 8, 2010

Vintage Violence: 'Unchained Maladies' Rip 'Your Flesh'

Here's yet-another review of the Imperial Dogs' Unchained Maladies: Live! 1974-75 -- written by Your Flesh editor Peter Davis for the long-running fanzine-turned-webzine -- from sometime back when the LP was issued on Australian indie Dog Meat in 1989:

"It pretty much figures that a band like the Imperial Dogs, no matter how lacking in historical relevance, could have had so many brushes with the 'right people' and still couldn't achieve so much as a significant peep of praise beyond a small modicum of cult popularity, which was obscure at best (just like their hard to come by posthumous single).

"After all, Blue Oyster Cult cribbed 'This Ain't the Summer of Love' from 'em; Bob Ezrin (Kiss producer) considered cribbing toons, too, but bailed 'cause he thought they were too negative, and even Kim Fowley courted, and even shopped the Dogs.

"Now, we are talking about '73-'75; a pretty pathetic period for music, so it goes without saying that the Dogs were a band ahead of their time (pre-dating late '70's punk, for the most part), sans any infamy, let alone any substantial documentation -- fuck!

"To think that they even played my home town a bunch is downright buggy, and look, it even took an Australian label to put it out ... call that justice. Maybe if Hilly Krystal lived in L.A. instead of New York it might've been the Dogs instead of the Dead Boys ... I call this boss."

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