Him & the Others — “She’s Got Eyes that Tell Lies”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — September 14, 2023

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

952) Him & the Others — “She’s Got Eyes that Tell Lies“

This B-side of the band’s only single (’66) is “brilliant and one of the top five freakbeat rarities”. (Vernon Joynson, The Tapestry of Delights Revisited) Man, it kicks butt! Don’t take my word for it. Thomasbaumgartner3032 says that “[t]he song is fantastic, it’s brutal, is strong, lots of soul[], punky too, incredible” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOOBiX-soDc). When carolewiles3685 commented that “My dad Colin played lead guitar in this band”, K.__Oss responded that “Your father single-handedly played the heaviest guitar ever put on record before punk or metal was ever invented.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOOBiX-soDc)

Some even say that this song represented the birth of heavy metal. Mannyruiz1954 writes that “This is where garage psych gives birth to heavy metal. Jeezuz the crunch sounds like Tony Iommi” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOOBiX-soDc) and t.d.p.t7903 writes “First Heavy Metal song ever?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0rJSm_Ag6o&t=4s) Nope, no relation to the Eagles’ “Lyin’ Eyes”!

When Lennie Shaw, the band’s bassist, discovered the song on YouTube along with rhapsodic comments, he commented himself that:

I didn’t think for one minute that somebody would be playing our record again.

Thanks mate, that’s the best thing about music it’s when people actually like it, it so makes your day, so thanks again.

Thanks to everyone for their wonderful comments about our record from the sixties. regards Len H&TO. Bass player.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOOBiX-soDc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0rJSm_Ag6o

That warms my heart. What a nice guy.

As to the band, Discogs tells us that:

Him & The Others were formed in 1964, when drummer Keith Giles and bassist Lennie Shaw left their former group and decided to start a new group with local vocalist George Demetrious. After placing adverts in Melody Maker, guitarists Colin Roche and Geoff Gibbs completed the line-up. The group soon built up a following playing top clubs around London and the home counties, and supported many of the major top acts, as well as backing group to chart singer Peter Fenton. They also appeared in the British made film, Mini Weekend, filmed during one of their many gigs at top London club, Tiles. They made one record . . . which received rave reviews, but never achieved chart success. In 1967, following Lennie Shaw’s departure from the group, they changed their name to The Hand. With Geoff Gibbs switching to bass, they become more progressive/blues orientated. The band split up completely around a year later. George and Geoff went on to form George Paul Jefferson, Keith Giles joined progressive band Fortes Mentum [see #904] whilst Colin Roche went back to his love of the blues forming a band with Paul Rodgers who later went on to form Free.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1187609-Him-The-Others

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