THE BEAT GOES ON
WESTMINSTER, MD-They walk at night! They’re not of this earth! They’ll suck your blood! They’ll scan your pate until it peels! No, it’s not another indomitable modernist monster, squeezing juice from the loins of its victims, but a rock band, ½ Japanese, shaping noise music so strident and so unmerciful that it would disrupt a college fraternity bash.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Masters Of The Screaming Meemies
WESTMINSTER, MD-They walk at night! They’re not of this earth! They’ll suck your blood! They’ll scan your pate until it peels!
No, it’s not another indomitable modernist monster, squeezing juice from the loins of its victims, but a rock band, ½ Japanese, shaping noise music so strident and so unmerciful that it would disrupt a college fraternity bash.
From around Baltimore (land of the paladin of bestial pulchritude, John Waters), V2 Japanese emerged from their scummy surroundings in August, 1977 with the release of a 9-song EP on their own 50,000,000,000,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 Watts label. With songs like “Calling All Girls” and “Her Parents Came Home,” the implication of the initial creation of V2 Jap (in private reality, brothers Jad and David Fair) was quite apparent—hot and horny beyond belief, the recording was a succinct statement of thwarted male desires. P.S. It was also very funny.