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Bill eventually took fly to painting, and the rest took it easy for a while. During this time, however, Telecaster and Lowdown were having fun in the former’s basement, foolin’ around with traditional tunes, especially the country blues idioms. Elias joined them at times, playing rythm and bass guitar and helping them believe that it could work. It was so that Low Down Nick jumped behind the microphone and the band became a minimalist instrumental trio plus a raw voice, oriented towards a blending of garage, blues, country and old-timey, with just the appropriate doses of new waveism. Supplementing his detailed pickin’, Telecaster Nick evolved a spartan kind of rythm guitar playing, based on a steady rotation of delicate phrases articulated in a harsh jargon, that would break into just long enough, survivance-over-a-wounded-dignity solos. Low Down Nick would finger-pick an acoustic guitar for one or two numbers, letting Telecaster’s variations free to ride up and down their whole gamut.
At times changes were ventured, both because of a need for a less heavy sound and of musical differences that tended to become clashes. However, the four piece combo remained as such until the story was finished, managing to put together musical differences in styles and hopes into a collage that some people, interestingly, liked. Special compliments go to "Black" George, a jazz drummer and rythm guitar extraordinere from Aegaleo, the fifth Shakin’ Chill, who joined some live performances and was present in many rehearsals and basement gigs, being thus part of a five-piece machine generating ideas. Ideas which, by the way, were moving more and more towards an electrified Naturalism of some kind, with Telecaster sounding at times like Chet Atkins - like in the usual closing number for their lives, "Lonesome Valley".
Well, that’s the story. These tunes here are some kind of basement tapes, with Telecaster Nick and Low Down Nick caressing some of the Low Down Shakin’ Chills standards. We will try to find and upload some of the real stuff, that is, some live performances’ stills - raw and austere, as it used to sound.
Discography:
"Death Don’t Have No Mercy"
Basement Records
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