The Godz (NYC band)
The Godz were an American psychedelic rock band from New York City. Your unique selling point was her asked to show dilettantism. According to Allmusic, they produced " some of the strangest, unstimmigsten, deliberately amateurish rock noise that has ever been produced " (some of the strangest, most dissonant, purposely incompetent rock noise ever produced ).
Band History
Jim McCarthy (vocals, guitar, flute, harmonica ), Paul Thornton (vocals, guitar, drums, maracas ) and Larry Kessler ( vocals, violin, bass guitar) worked in a New York record store. McCarthy and Thornton played in the band " The Dick Watson Five", which had released the album Baker Street. Kessler in 1961 recorded the single Wonderful Days and also worked as a salesman for Bernard Mans Stoll ESP-Disk label.
After seeing a concert by the Fugs, they decided to form their own band. Kessler persuaded Jay Dillon (vocals, autoharp ), the art director of ESP-Disk to participate in the project. They called themselves "The Godz ", and Stollman gave them in September 1966 two hours of studio time to record a single. At the end they had spent six hours in the studio and recorded material for an entire album, which finally came on the market as a contact high.
After their second album Godz 2 Dillon left the band. The remaining trio took on The Third Testament. Then the musicians went their separate ways. However, when Lester Bangs in 1971 published a positive review of the Godz in the music magazine Creem, it came to the reunion and to other albums.