HOODOO YOU LOVE?
There’s a Get Smart episode in which Larry “F Troop” Storch plays “the Groovy Guru.” First, he locks Max and Agent 99 in a studio and feeds them back their own heartbeats at a Blue Cheer decibel-level. The ghoulishly groovy one then forms and leads the “Sacred Cows,” a band that plays "hip-hip-hip-no-tiz-ing" rock ’n’ roll to twist teenage minds, making them violent automatons that will overthrow the state.
HOODOO YOU LOVE?
There’s a Get Smart episode in which Larry “F Troop” Storch plays “the Groovy Guru.” First, he locks Max and Agent 99 in a studio and feeds them back their own heartbeats at a Blue Cheer decibel-level. The ghoulishly groovy one then forms and leads the “Sacred Cows,” a band that plays "hip-hip-hip-no-tiz-ing" rock ’n’ roll to twist teenage minds, making them violent automatons that will overthrow the state.
The Hoodoo Gurus dig it. That’s how the Sydney, Australia quartet came to be the Gurus and wrote “In The Echo Chamber” for their first LP. Neo-classic ’60s culture is their scene: Vox amps, Lost In Space, leather fringes and Felix the Cat colored their formative years. Images from twodecades-plus of TV-addiction have stuck, and as their third LP (Blow Your Cool) demonstrates, the catch-phrases have stuck as well.
“There’s a cartoon element in our songs,” says main Guru Dave Faulkner, “but there’s nothing cartoonish about ‘Bittersweet’—or ‘I Was The One’ or ‘Where Nowhere Is’ from the new LP. They’re straight from the heart, not from a sense of nostalgia for a different time. They’re fairly grown-up songs.”