The GODZ

'I have often rated the Godz as a group of seminal importance, fitting between and over the cracks of first LP’s by the Stooges, Mothers of Invention, and the Velvet Underground. True, the Godz were not in the class of many of rock’s pantheon- they were too busy playing hooky, getting high, and tearing down the school. The Godz were the first deconstructionist band, operating on the perimeter of several styles including rock, folk, global, trance, drone punk, spoken, barnyard, country, electronica, and minimalist to name a few. If John Cage, Stockhausen, and Tristen Tzara had a band it would be the Godz.'-Carry Loren (excerpt from 1997 article "Destroy All Monsters")