THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,232) The Electric Toilet* — “In the Hands of Karma”
A tragic story, a questionable band name, but a glorious song: “a down-tempo fringe-shaker lifted onto a whole new plane by a richly melodic Gospel chorus” (Rob Fitzpatrick, https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/aug/21/popandrock) from a “[d]riving bluesy LP with southern twang, growly lead vocal with black baptist church choir style backing, sound effects and trippy acid guitar work”. (https://www.discogs.com/artist/779214-Electric-Toilet)
Music hearts.fm calls ET:
Stone cold classic US ’60s heavy psych rock Band. The band came from Memphis. Buddhist vibes meet Southern hippy rock with cosmic sound effects and trippy acid guitar work. Fantastic.
Rob Fitzpatrick writes of the album:
[A] fantastic record . . . . [S]omething raucous was clearly going down wherever the Toilet hung out as . . . their mix of country-inflected, choogling blues-rock and acid-fuzz still sounds quite remarkable. . . . [The LP] was released . . . in minute quantities, an original will cost you about $400 . . . .
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/aug/21/popandrock
Of the band’s sadly truncated history, Jeremy Simmonds tells us:
Lead vocalist and Wurlitzer/Moog-master Grady Pannel . . . teamed up with guitarist Johnny Wigginton to form the psychedelic Tupelo-based Electric Toilet — named after Pannel’s penchant for flushing toilets while on the telephone to his pals. The band was completed with the addition of another guitarist, Wayne Reynolds, their pulsating sound augmented by songwriting input of Dave Hall and Dickie Betts . . . . [It’s d]ebut album . . . pick[ed] up airplay on Memphis radio as the band began to develop some momentum in 1969. . . . [But they got into] an auto crash as they embarked upon their first major tour the following year [on June 23, 1970]. . . . Pannel — who was engaged to be married — and Reynolds — who left a wife and children — died . . . . [T]heir funeral drew a crowd of over 2,000.
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* “That band name is so hilariously terrible it made me curious enough to listen.” (Judge Judy, https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/bands-that-really-should-have-called-themselves-something-else.956207/)
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Karma and toilet together. I wonder why no one heard of them?
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