"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and die like dogs. Theres also a negative side." Hunter S Thompson
Fuzzhead: LSD LP (Twisted Village) ...throughout the years Bill Weita and various gangs have been producing the very exact sorta cassette-squee-welp youd want to hear. Hes gone through a variety of phases and bandnames; this album doucments the first heavy-psych period of Fuzzhead from 91. Their modus operandi is tough to peg real specifically, but theres a stylistic gambit they utilize several times that sweeps my ass off its feet. Against thrubby, virtual Neu-trance drumming and large out of sync guitar, a womans voice rises from the fen, like the stoned ghost of Dorothy Moskowitz. Then a mans voice starts slur-chanting words along with and/or against her singing and the slunky holism of the sound bubbles along a dry creekbed until it reached the lips of the eternal hole. Splush. A very fine and satisfying record which includes a righteously long cover of Yoo Doo Right. One or so members has been busted for selling sacramental comestibles since these recordings, so its unlikely well hear anything exactly like this again too soon. ---Robert Bill Hennington, Forced Exposure
circa 1992
The eponymous debut from Fuzzhead is the latest tape by one of the cassette subcultures true scunge scrouges---Bill Weita. His tapes with Col. Tom and The Epstein Bros. are always weed-killing lunges into sonic blood pudding and Fuzzhead does something similar. Grotty uber-skunk-guitar-fires blaze in the gas-filled darkness while lizards dressed up like King Ubu recite the lyrics to Beatles songs in a very threatening manner. Put this in your pipe. You know the rest. ---Byron Coley, Spin
circa 1994
...featured guest vocalists and a flute player stopping by Weitas basement studio to lay down tracks for a new sprawling piece - a cover of Sun Ras Its After The End of the World, slated to fill an entire side of the upcoming album for Thurston Moore. Virtually everything recorded by Fuzzhead has been done here, laid down on Weitas battered four and eight-track tape recorders and meticulously worked over. After the other musicians leave, Weita takes me for a look at the famed basement. Walking down the stairs, ducking under a huge upside-down American flag, we come into a network of small rooms. Power strips and vintage microphones hang precariously from the ceiling. Its also very damp. The humidity down here has had a big effect on our music, says Weita. Weve got a lot of old tube amplifiers and this weird mildew seems to grow inside them. It creates these strange hums and distorted tones we couldnt repeat outside even if we wanted to. Last week it got so humid down here that my Fender amp shorted out and started making this wild pulse. We built a whole song around it. ---Brett Sokol, Free Times
Fuzzhead: Mind Soup Interesting and spirited fare from Ohio thats not typical Midwest indie rock. From their historical discography I gleaned that Fuzzhead have recorded about 20 cassette and vinyl releases since 1989 and most likely know a hell of a lot more about Miles Davis than Pavement do. And Demorandum columnist Jim Santo knows a lot more about Fuzzhead than I do. He called their More of the Same cassette no more than a bunch of stoned soul jams. So how are Heavy Buzz and So Baked for stoned jams? Fuzzheads bedroom studio of noise, thump, toke and scree is more than tolerable because it reeeks of studies of their own process and signifiers, like Pauls Boutique, Jimi Hendrizx, and Basehead. From the basement in a big way, with slackerish eccentric lyrics, sax, organ and great female vocals on a few tracks, here are eighteen self-conscious exercies for the weak of mind. It may very well be that a best-of CD, ora cassette-only small-but-fiendish cult following would sit Fuzzhead better than a lifelong relationship with David Geffen, or Jim Sanco. ---Cyndi Elliott, Alternative Press
circa 1996 (l-r: Neil Sherhag, Scott Hosner, Bill Weita, Bill Finsel, John Howitt)
Fuzzhead: Mind Soup ...in a tradition that goes back to Frank Zappa and emerges in the present in the form of such bands as Sonic Youth, Mercury Rev, Trumans Water, Guided by Voices and, most conspicuously, Pavement. Fuzzhead is more far-ranging than Pavement, drawing more directly for rap, jazz and funk in creating fractured fragments of music. While some of these bands exude an aura of naivete, whether real or put on, Fuzzhead reeks of heady, confident sophistication: they know and acknowledge their sources, incorporating them intelligently in to something of their own. ---Anastasia Pantsios, Free Times
