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These guys from Finland like to put a 50/50 of rock and psychedelia on their sound. Maybe that’s why punk maniacs that had never been interested on lysergic sounds before enjoy this music so much. This piece of work, again, has been brought to us from the Nordic hell by Munster Records, one of our most international records. Jack Meatbeat & The U.G.S. is the side project of some of the members from The Flamin’ Sideburns, a band that is gradually getting more and more praise around here. They’re just like those midnight nightmares emerging from the dark side of your brain. It’s a sound that burns, drugs, feeds on the listener’s unconsciousness: hard psychedelic sound with its origin on the 60’s and reinforced with the titanic guitar rock with the likes of Ron Asheton and The Stooges. There’s a lot here from Detroit and his iguana, of course, and therefore, from the early Union Carbide Productions. Maybe even more suicidal. These detail is essential to understand why this music has captivated the attention of every single hard rock fan. It’s the duality of their sound what makes them special. They are also able to create a different brand of sensations, like for example during the opening of their recently released “Back from World War III”, where the pace is slowed down, diffused, holding the storm that is later released. The band, formed during the late 80’s, suffered of different and continued problems that make it hard to know exactly what can we expect from them in the future. In order to clear some doubts and show our respect, we got in touch with Eduardo, the Argentinean vocalist and front man of The Flamin’ Sideburns and Jack Meatbeat. J. F. León, our experimented specialist on hard rock voltage, bombarded him with really interesting questions. You came into the band once it was rolling, ¿do you think there has been any evolution in the sound? By the time their 2nd 7" came out, one of their three guitarrists had left to study theatre and the singer got married. Rest of the band moved to Helsinki. I recall their last gig together at a place called Berlin where the singer walked away from the stage while the band was dangin’ on a very chaotic version of "1969". The music had changed, it was even more obscure, weird and dark with stooges guitars. I tried to bring more accessible sound at beginning, but I never achieved it. I mean, it was impossible!! Believe me! Why it took so long for the album to be released? You should ask Munster for it, I paid for 3 different masterings and it still took them more than a year to do it after that. Don`t get me wrong, I`m very proud of that release and love all the work done by that label, it was a perfect deal for us, even if it took four years. I did a lot of remixing and the final product wouldn`t have been as good as if they ha d released it straight away after the split w/ La Secta, as I thought. They were always talking about a masterplan but never mentioned there were about one hundred records coming out before mine. And that`s also what killed the band. From the same sessions "Neptuno" also came out on cd in 1997, it is more of a leftovers album but still pretty good. Only 500 copies were made by the only label that dared to touch us in the country, Metamorphos, that also released the Sideburns first 7" a year later. And last but not least I was part of "Leaving the planet", an album by The Fishfaces in memoriam of Claude (ex-Smack) who had passed away before One might think that Jack Meatbeat is just a paralel project of Flaming Sideburn's members, don't you think that? This question was the other way round until a couple of years ago. Jack Meatbeat is unexistent for the moment as an entity and I doubt people will see the five of us on stage again. After this record there ain`t much to prove anymore. We were playing those songs live already in 1995 and got bored with it. But cannot predict the future. I would love to perform that material now with a special line-up, or guests but money should be involved too. All & all it should be at least on the same level than Flaming Sideburns. But on the other side, our up coming album has a lot of Meatbeat influences, so maybe we`d be here today with a very similar thing only under a different name. Think about it!
Well, those were very experimental times so yeah, Jürgen, our engineer said there is a full box with just different mixes, takes and unreleased material. Maybe Bad Afro wants to release an alternative compilation in the future. Safety Pins promised to out out a 7" EP later this year! Jukka has been talking he wants to make a new record and my true desire would be to work again on the very first album we put out back in 1994. I think a very good thing could come out with todays technology+experience plus I still have some very old tapes of demos, etc... But no real offers yet. After observing the result of the album, wouldn't you like to re-group the band for touring? Yeah, I`m always trying to get something good going for Jack. Last time I tried to book a tour supporting The Hives but the money was not there and we ended up supporting The Hellacopters w/ Flaming Sideburns. Maybe an alternative for touring would be to make a Jack Meatbeat-Flaming Sideburns tour... It sounds easier than what it is. I mean last tour I got exhausted already by playing one set and travelling every day. Do you wanna kill me? We would have even less free time and travel by ground with our gear or get also another support act. I have problems remembering lyrics...Imagine what this could be. You`ll be paying double price ticket to see 50% Meatbeat + 50% Sideburns, or even worse. One of the bands would suffer and crack, then the other one will too. It would be perfect to ruin my career... I`ll keep it in mind.
Yeah, you`re right F.S. have always been more spiritual somehow, maybe because of good luck, and Meatbeat all on the contrary... The first cover we recorded 3 weeks after I joined was "Loose" and that was the record we could all relate to musically speaking. Another one was "Soul, Glitter and Sin" by Thee Hypnotics and early Monster Magnet - I loved that band, 70`s rock like Led Zeppelin Blue Cheer was a big part of it, Pink Floyd, Rocky Erikson, etc, etc, even The Beatles. Is the caos beatiful? Yeah, there is always a beautiful side in chaos, usually it comes out later. What`s interesting is that you act and think differently with chaos around. I am pretty good at that while normally I`m lazy and a little bit like lost. Looking at your pictures, it seems as if you had a saint imagenary well defined. I don`t see many saints in the photos, only friends who helped the band out. Actually if you look well there`s the devil in disguise too and the god of LSD. Of course Jesus couldn`t have been left out! We decided that if everybody else is putting Satans and Lucifers in their album covers, we`re gonna put some hope too. there was stuff where to choose from, I don`t remember how many collages I did but Munster had the final decision. Do you keep in touch with the Argentinan rock scene? Yeah, I`m very interested in what`s happening there. Music has always been a very important part of the culture and since I`ve been living here I`ve learnt to appreciate mostly everything from there. I`m glad that bands like Fabulosos Cadillacs, Argies or Ataque 77 are making it to Europe and I`ll be waiting for the next generation. What do you think about the scandinavian scene? Do you think it has for some more time? I still don`t believe that there is such thing as an Scandinavian boom, but I`m happy that it nowadays sounds trendy. Of course with bands like Hellacopters, Gluecifer, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Hives, Nomads, Turpentines things might go on for another 5 years but i doubt that it will get bigger than what it is now and the market seems to be already over saturated with clones. On the other side Finland might be the next big thing, there are lot of undiscovered things over here like us for example or Thee Ultra Bimboos, Hypnomen, Mutants, Knucklebone Oscar and the list could go on forever and ever. Viva Los Hurriganes! Warning: Failed opening '/home/swmagazi/sonicwavemagazine-www/in/0105/sumario.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='./:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/swmagazi/sonicwavemagazine-www/backstage/contenido/index.php on line 356 |
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