I just realized Arthur Brown, and his Crazy World, is/are still around after all these years.
That new video is good! Very Tom Waits.
I am also interested to learn that in the 80’s, Brown moved to Austin, Texas, got a Masters degree in counseling and started a house-painting business with a former Zappa drummer.
Imagine going in for counseling and having it be Brown there some office, setting off the smoke alarms for sure.
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Mitchell Freedman 10.04.15 at 6:17 am
One of my all time favorite albums is Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come’s “Galactic Zoo Dossier,” from 1971. It is, as Frank Zappa would say, “freaky down to its toenails.”
The drummer who teamed up with AB in Texas was Jimmy Carl Black, who memorably described himself as “the Indian of the group” (meaning Zappa’s The Mothers).
Alison P 10.04.15 at 6:25 am
He’s got a gig in Nuneaton next Saturday, might go along.
Chris Bertram 10.04.15 at 6:31 am
Goodness me. I saw him when he played my school, back in 1973 with Kingdom Come (and no drummer, a drum machine). An extraordinary presences on stage. He appeared to have an enormous hard-on for the entire performance and the projected graphics were spectacular. It made an enormous impression on a group of adolescent boys.
Dave Heasman 10.04.15 at 10:45 pm
Ah Galactic Zoo Dossier – “save me, save me, I’m a green shield stamp..” “you take the bathroom, I’ll take the bogs..” etc I’ve seen Arthur many times, an alumnus of my old joint. One of the few English graduates to have a top ten hit in the 60s. Splendid voice.
Icastico 10.05.15 at 1:15 pm
Too Tom Waits, but without the x-factor that makes Waits work. IMHO.
And “iPod”? Really?
Still it is better than anything The Stones have put out as old men.
The Temporary Name 10.05.15 at 3:32 pm
What might Arthur Brown, Counselor, have advised you to do?
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