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The Red Krayola (formerly The Red Crayola) was a psychedelic
Psychedelic

The word 'psychedelic' is an English term coined from the Greek language words for "soul," ???? , and "manifest," d???? . A psychedelic experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters....
, avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 rock band from Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles ....
, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas (Texas) in 1966. The band was led by singer/guitarist and visual artist Mayo Thompson, along with drummer Frederick Barthelme
Frederick Barthelme

Fredrick Barthelme is an United States author of short story and novels and a professor at The University of Southern Mississippi. He is also the editor of the literary journal Mississippi Review....
 (brother of novelist Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme was an American Literature of short story and novels. He also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas , co-founder of Fiction Magazine , and a professor at various universities....
) and Steve Cunningham. Their work prefigured punk
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 and the no wave
No Wave

No Wave was a short-lived but influential art music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City....
 scene in 1980s New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
.

They made noise rock
Noise rock

Noise rock describes one variety of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock music, but incorporates atonality and especially consonance and dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions....
, psychedelia and occasionally folk/country songs and instrumentals in a DIY fashion, an approach that presaged the lo-fi aesthetic of many 1990s US indie rock
Indie rock

Indie rock is alternative rock that most notably exists in the Independent music underground music scene. It primarily refers to rock musicians that are or were unsigned, or have signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels....
 groups.






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The Red Krayola (formerly The Red Crayola) was a psychedelic
Psychedelic

The word 'psychedelic' is an English term coined from the Greek language words for "soul," ???? , and "manifest," d???? . A psychedelic experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters....
, avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 rock band from Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles ....
, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas (Texas) in 1966. The band was led by singer/guitarist and visual artist Mayo Thompson, along with drummer Frederick Barthelme
Frederick Barthelme

Fredrick Barthelme is an United States author of short story and novels and a professor at The University of Southern Mississippi. He is also the editor of the literary journal Mississippi Review....
 (brother of novelist Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme was an American Literature of short story and novels. He also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas , co-founder of Fiction Magazine , and a professor at various universities....
) and Steve Cunningham. Their work prefigured punk
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 and the no wave
No Wave

No Wave was a short-lived but influential art music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City....
 scene in 1980s New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
.

They made noise rock
Noise rock

Noise rock describes one variety of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock music, but incorporates atonality and especially consonance and dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions....
, psychedelia and occasionally folk/country songs and instrumentals in a DIY fashion, an approach that presaged the lo-fi aesthetic of many 1990s US indie rock
Indie rock

Indie rock is alternative rock that most notably exists in the Independent music underground music scene. It primarily refers to rock musicians that are or were unsigned, or have signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels....
 groups. Reviewing the band has produced conflicted results - in an extremely positive review from Pitchfork Media, critic Alex Lindhardt wrote "It's a band that has no idea how to play its instruments. In fact, they don't even know what instruments are, or if the guitarist has the ability to remain conscious long enough to play whatever it is a 'note' might be." He added, "This is a band that was paid ten dollars to stop a performance in Berkeley. If Berkeley's not having it, you know you're in for rough sledding."

Thompson has continued using the name, in its legally required permutation The Red Krayola, for his musical projects since.

History


1960s

In 1966 the band signed to International Artists
International Artists

International Artists was an independent record label based in Houston, Texas that existed from 1965 in music to 1970 in music.During its existence IA released 12 albums and 39 singles and was owned by a group of businessmen in Houston....
, home label to fellow psych-rockers The 13th Floor Elevators that was run by Lelan Rogers (brother of country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
ian Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
). In 1967 the label released the psychedelic album, Parable of Arable Land
Parable of Arable Land

The Parable of Arable Land is the first album by the Red Krayola, then known as the Red Crayola. The album is self-described as a ?Free Form Freak-Out,? and remains one of the most infamous in their catalogue....
, featuring six songs by the original three members interwoven with a cacophony generated by approximately 50 anonymous followers - including a guest appearance by 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson on harmonica - known as The Familiar Ugly who appear on a number of noise tracks called Free-Form Freak-Outs. The album's title track was a tape loop
Tape loop

Tape loops are Music loop of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound. Contemporary composers such as Steve Reich and Karlheinz Stockhausen used tape loops to create phase patterns and rhythms....
 of electronic sounds
Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
 with musical improvisation
Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians....
s layered on top of it, a sound that foreshadowed the Red Krayola's second recording.

The minimalist music
Minimalist music

Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental music or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonance and dissonance, steady pulse , stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrase or smaller units such as Figure , Motif , and Cell ....
 album Coconut Hotel was recorded in 1967 but rejected by International Artists for its lack of commercial potential because of its complete departure from the full-sounding guitar/bass/drums/vocals rock sound of the Red Krayola's first album. Coconut Hotel featured such self-described tracks as "Organ Buildup", "Free Guitar" and a series of atonal
Atonal

Atonal may refer to:*AtonalityAtonal or Atonaltzin may refer to:*Atonal I*Atonal II...
 "One-Second Pieces" for piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
, trumpet
Trumpet

The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
 and percussion. The album did not see release until 1995. During this period, the band performed a concert in Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland, California and Emeryville, California....
 where they attached a contact microphone
Contact microphone

A contact microphone, otherwise known as a pickup or a piezo, is a form of microphone designed to transmit audio vibrations through solid objects....
 to a sheet of aluminium foil
Aluminium foil

Aluminium foil is aluminium prepared in thin metal leafs, with a thickness less than 0.2 mm / 0.008 in, although much thinner gauges down to 0.006 mm are commonly used....
 that was set under a block of melting ice. The Red Krayola also performed with guitarist John Fahey
John Fahey (musician)

John Fahey was an United States fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of his art....
 and recorded an entire studio album of music in collaboration with him, but label head Lelan Rogers demanded possession of the tapes and recorded documentation of those sessions has been missing ever since.

The band's second album to see release (and the first to be released with the new "Krayola" spelling) was 1968's God Bless The Red Krayola And All Who Sail With It. God Bless presented a middle ground between Parable of Arable Land and Coconut Hotel, having veered away from the cacophonous psychedelic approach of their first album, but performing short, minimalist songs on electric guitar
Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
, bass and drums (interspersed with occasional a cappella
A cappella

Acappella music is vocal music or singing without musical instrument accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance music polyphony and Baroque concertato style....
 harmonies and piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 interludes) to achieve some surprisingly melodic results and even more surprisingly off-kilter lyrics. Hints of the as-of-yet unheard music on Coconut Hotel also revealed themselves (the track "Listen To This" is a one-second piece with spoken introduction). The album was not as well received as the band's first release and the Red Krayola's original lineup disbanded.

In 1969, Thompson recorded a solo album called Corky's Debt to His Father for a small label called Texas Revolution. The album, which has come to be regarded by many as the unheralded jewel of the Krayola catalogue, is devoid of Thompson's usual avant-garde indulgences, and consists instead of ten lyrically dense but warm-hearted pop songs, in various styles - Dylan-inspired blues-rock, Tex-Mex pop-rock with psychedelic touches, and early country rock
Country rock

Country rock is a musical genre formed from the fusion of Rock music with country music, with its country origins being initially referenced to the rockabilly music of the 1950s....
 not dissimilar to the contemporary work of Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons was a member of the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers....
 and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Thompson was backed by studio musicians on the album and none of his usual Krayola (or 13th Floor Elevators) cohorts appear.

1970s–80s

Mayo Thompson continued to make music, both under his own name and as The Red Crayola (reverting to the original name for Europe). He teamed up with American drummer Jesse Chamberlain and recorded the single 'Wives in Orbit' and the album Soldier Talk both of which could be seen as musical responses to punk rock. His collaborations in the 1970s and 1980s read like a roll call of the avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 and experimental
Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in North America, and whose most famous and influential exponent was John Cage ....
 artists and musicians of the era. The Red Crayola teamed up with the Conceptual Art
Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
 collective Art & Language
Art & Language

Hello world. Art is a very important part of life.P.S.- Have a great day everyone.Art & Language is a shifting collaboration among conceptual artists that has undergone many changes since its inception in the late 1960s....
 for three LPs: 1976's Corrected Slogans, 1981's Kangaroo? (also featuring The Raincoats
The Raincoats

The Raincoats are a post-punk band and were formed in 1977 in music by Ana da Silva and Gina Birch while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England....
' Gina Birch
Gina Birch

Gina Birch is a founding member of The Raincoats. Gina formed The Hangovers and released an album, Slow Dirty Tears, in 1998. In 2002 in music she performed live at Ladyfest and continues to play mainly in London, England....
, Lora Logic
Lora Logic

Lora Logic is a United Kingdom saxophone and singer. She was briefly a member of the band X Ray Spex, although she had been sacked from that group by the time they sound recording and reproduction their first album, which nevertheless used her saxophone arrangements....
 and Swell Maps
Swell Maps

Swell Maps were an experimental England rock group of the 1970s from Birmingham, that foreshadowed the birth of post-punk.Influenced by the disparate likes of T.Rex and the Germany progressive rock outfit, Can , they created a new soundscape that would be heavily mined by others in the post-punk era....
' Epic Soundtracks
Epic Soundtracks

Epic Soundtracks was the stage name of United Kingdom musician Kevin Paul Godfrey . He was brought up in Solihull, Midlands with his brother Adrian Nicholas, who was known as Nikki Sudden ....
) and 1983's Black Snakes. Thompson joined Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu (band)

Pere Ubu are an experimental rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. Despite many long-term band members, singer David Thomas is the only constant....
 for a period in the early 1980s, performing on a couple releases, and provided soundtrack music for Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman was an England film director, stage designer, artist, and writer....
. Throughout this time he was prolific as a producer for many other seminal experimental and alternative rock
Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as Grunge music, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop....
 acts, including The Fall (1980's Grotesque (After the Gramme)
Grotesque (After the Gramme)

Grotesque is a 1980 album by The Fall . It was critically received as a marked improvement over its predecessors both sonically and musically, and is cited as the band's first great album....
), The Raincoats
The Raincoats

The Raincoats are a post-punk band and were formed in 1977 in music by Ana da Silva and Gina Birch while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England....
, Scritti Politti
Scritti Politti

Scritti Politti are a United Kingdom band , originally formed in 1978 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Scritti Politti is now primarily a musical vehicle for singer-songwriter Green Gartside , who is the founding member and only member of the band to have remained throughout the group's history....
, Blue Orchids, Cabaret Voltaire
Cabaret Voltaire (band)

Cabaret Voltaire were a United Kingdom music musical ensemble from Sheffield, England.Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson , the group was named after the Cabaret Voltaire , a nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland that was a center for the early Dada movement....
, Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers are a Punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk....
, Kleenex/LiLiPUT, The Chills
The Chills

The Chills are a guitar and keyboard-based rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand.In terms of public acclaim, The Chills were possibly the most successful proponent of the Dunedin Sound in the 1980s and 1990s, although they never achieved breakout sales or financial success....
 and Primal Scream
Primal Scream

Primal Scream are a Brit awards Scotland alternative rock group formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie . The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , Gary Mounfield , and Darrin Mooney ....
.

1990s–present

The 1990s found The Red Krayola with a new audience, who came to the group via musicians associated with Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
's Post Rock scene and in particular the Drag City
Drag City

Drag City may refer to:*A Drag City from Jan & Dean's 1963 album of the same name*An Drag City Records...
 label, who had joined the band's ever-shifting line-up for a number of releases including the LPs Hazel (1996) and Fingerpainting (1999). These were, amongst others, Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke (musician)

Jim O'Rourke is an United States musician and producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental music and free improvisation scene....
 and David Grubbs
David Grubbs

File:David Grubbs.jpgDavid Grubbs , guitarist, pianist, and vocalist, was a founding member of Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol. He has also played in The Red Krayola and The Wingdale Community Singers....
 of Gastr del Sol
Gastr del Sol

Gastr del Sol was a Chicago band consisting, for most of their career, of David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke . Between 1993 and 1998 they put out seven records ranging in genre from post-rock to musique concr?te....
, the post-Conceptual visual artist Stephen Prina, German painter Albert Oehlen
Albert Oehlen

Albert Oehlen is a Germany artist.Albert Oehlen graduated at the Hochschule f?r Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978. Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, he was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge along with Martin Kippenberger among others....
, George Hurley
George Hurley

George Hurley is a drummer noted for his work with Minutemen and Firehose .Even though he went to the same high school as D. Boon and Mike Watt he did not meet them until around 1978....
 (formerly of Minutemen
Minutemen (band)

The Minutemen were an United States punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California, California in 1980. Comprising guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, the Minutemen recorded four albums and eight extended play before Boon's unexpected death in December 1985....
 and fIREHOSE
FIREHOSE

Firehose was an alternative rock band consisting of Mike Watt , Ed Crawford , and George Hurley ....
), Tom Watson of Slovenly, and John McEntire
John McEntire

John McEntire is an American recording engineer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known for being in Tortoise and The Sea and Cake, as well as being a highly in-demand producer and engineer....
 of Tortoise
Tortoise

Tortoises or land turtles are land-dwelling reptiles of the family of Testudinidae, order Turtle. Like their marine cousins, the sea turtles, tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell....
. In 2006 the group issued an album, Introduction and an EP, Red Gold.

In 1995, Drag City released 1967's Coconut Hotel LP
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 and in 1998 issued The Red Krayola Live 1967 with material from the Angry Arts Festival and Berkeley Folk Music Festival including their live collaboration with John Fahey
John Fahey (musician)

John Fahey was an United States fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of his art....
.

Thompson is active as an art critic
Art critic

An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites....
 and currently lives in Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
, and in California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, where he teaches at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design.

Covers

Houston, Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
 hardcore punk
Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in North America and the UK in the late 1970s. The new sound was generally thicker, heavier and faster than earlier punk rock....
 band Really Red
Really Red

Really Red was a hardcore punk band formed in Houston, Texas in the late 1970's.Their song "Prostitution" appeared on the Alternative Tentacles hardcore punk compilation album Let Them Eat Jellybeans and another song of theirs, "I was a Teenage Fuckup" appeared on the soundtrack to the film American Hardcore ....
 recorded a cover of "Just the Facts, Ma'am" for their Rest in Pain LP from 1984. British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Space Rock
Space rock

Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early mostly British 1970s progressive rock and Psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by synthesizer, experimental guitar work and science fiction lyrical themes, though it was lat...
 group Spacemen 3
Spacemen 3

Spacemen 3 were an England Rock music band who formed in 1982 and whose career spanned from the post-punk to acid house eras....
 recorded a version of "Transparent Radiation" from the Red Krayola's Parable of Arable Land, and the same album's lead track "Hurricane Fighter Plane" was covered by Nik Turner's Ladbroke Grove-based post-Hawkwind outfit Inner City Unit
Inner City Unit

Inner City Unit is a United Kingdom Punk rock/hard edged Space rock band fronted by ex-Hawkwind founder Nik Turner on saxophone with Judge Trev Thoms , Dead Fred , Baz Magneto , and Mick Stupp or Dino Ferari on Drum kit....
, UK deathrock
Deathrock

Deathrock is a term used to identify a fusion of punk rock and gothic rock which incorporates elements of horror and spooky atmospheres. It first emerged in the West Coast of the United States and London during the late 1970s and early 1980s....
 group Alien Sex Fiend
Alien Sex Fiend

Alien Sex Fiend are a gothic rock band from the United Kingdom formed in the winter of 1982....
 in 1986 and by Scottish
Scottish people

The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....
 act Future Pilot AKA in 1996, as well as by ultra violent punkrockers, The Dwarves. Also covering "Hurricane Fighter Plane" was New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 post-punk
Post-punk

Post-punk was a popular musical movement with its roots in the mid to late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the early 1970s....
 band, The Pin Group, led by future solo performer, Roy Montgomery
Roy Montgomery

Roy Montgomery is a guitarist from Christchurch, New Zealand.He has played in several New Zealand bands, including Murder Strikes Pink, The Pin Group, Shallow , Dadamah and Dissolve....
. Boston-based indie outfit Galaxie 500
Galaxie 500

Galaxie 500 was an United States indie rock trio that formed in 1987 and split up in 1991 after releasing three albums....
 also covered "Victory Garden" from the Red Krayola's second album.

See also

  • Mayo Thompson
  • Rough Trade Records
    Rough Trade Records

    Rough Trade Records is an independent record label, based in London, England. It was started in 1978 by Geoff Travis....
  • Houston Noise Bands
    Houston Noise Bands

    Since the 1970's, Houston, TX has become one of the worlds leading centers for a particular brand of dark experimental music, ranging from psych-rock to industrial to distorted stripped down folk songs, to dance party mayhem, but all sharing a similar aesthetic sensibility rooted in dissonance and a terribly serious attitude towards sonic clarity...


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