The Wily Filipino

Wally Gonzales Writes Reviews.

This is, supposedly, Wally Gonzales writing on Speed, Glue and Shinki:

Those people who write the metal rock books some are fucking geeks with univerity diplomas. They laugh at metal while they write about it and take it without any serious expression. One man write slow stoner classic is Bang LP. Shit. Bang is one song band. Other songs of bang like smeard shit on Sabs boot sole. Some slag Grand Funk. Not clever enough. Mark Farner is a clever man with good intention for fans and al;l the people of the world. But no group got close to slow Sabbath stomp like the japanese trio Speed Glue and Shinki. Shinki Chen is the great jimi guitarist, which makes bass player and drummer into speed and glue. Hey great. Drummer is Mr. Joseph Smith of the Philipines. Hey Joe, you the man motherfucker. Like Sir Lord Baltimore singer John Garner, Joseph is also the mean Iggy Ozzy behind that kit. Squarks like MC5 and Blue Cheer and Stooges and hits the traps like he's punishing the man for building this world for assholes. Slow songs of Speed Glue and Shinki are perhaps the best and occupy in my head the larger place. Big double LP of big donkeys knob hanging and cool. Remember Kiss Hotter than Hell. Slower than those songs. Simple riffs for the moron to play but full of clever lyrics for the wise man to hear. Good combination to like with massive bone on the go and inhale the whole room staring at double LP sleeve of magical tiger with all the world of mystery in its eyes. Good record for studying the words. Get the words of Mr. Joseph Smith 1972. He os the Mother of Fucking Rock here. The words of Sniffing and Snorting say he's snorting out of the hands of a stgranger. That's pretty cool I guess. He's smoking a J on a beutuful day. He took a sip of wine and started loading his gun and shot it in his veins, By the time I pull it out I'm gonna feel so strange. No shit. I feel pretty strange too with I do that. Speed Glue is great when they play fast too, but we ain't talking about that right now. This double is for Dead george and those guys, you know. Lying in a pool of yourself on some hillside turning in to the earth and sucking up the vegetation and letting weather just happen. This is the fukcin ggroup man, Speed Glue and Shinki. Thankfull ball attention

His review of Amon Duul II's Tanz der Lemminge is fantastic as well:

For me they are an sect malignant of powerful desart magical and worship, and occupy in my head the larger place. To Amon Duul 2 I will be the lemming, and myself lead astray.

Posted by the wily filipino at August 28, 2004 02:57 PM