i just took over this profile of beme seed. i will have to gather some mementos to share...
beme seed lived and breathed their music for a short time here on earth....as the singer, i loved being in the practice room and playing all the time...each musician brought so much to the session...it was incredibly organic. the guitarist michael, eric the bassist and kenny the drummer had awesome ways of relating through their instruments. i loved singing with them...
two main visiting players, jason young and bob barrett left their significant impressions as well.
good fortunes never seem to cease when you invite sonic truth into the room...
looking back, it seems such a luxury to have been able to spend so much time playing music so much. we practiced much more than we played out. i always wished we could have people come to our practice space to hear us because the sound was so perfect...
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Here is the best thing i have read about our band, minus being referred to as 'the stripper' in the butthole surfers, which was hardly the case...there was nothing bawdy about my naked religious experience in the buttholes...(not that there is anything wrong with being bawdy...ha..: )
Ian Christe
review on Trouser Press
Beme Seed (Blast First) 1989
Lights Unfold (No. 6) 1990
Purify (No. 6) 1992
Beme Seed singer Kathleen Lynch was "the Stripper," whose stage antics helped propel Butthole Surfers to infamy. In most ways, her band is on its own plane - the quartet opened an entire tour for the Surfers simply by showing up at gigs unannounced, setting up and playing. Lacking the minimal organization of even the Sun City Girls, Beme Seed captures unique psychic qualities on its three opaque and unsettling records.
For starters, [Their First LP] Beme Seed (1989) is one long, orgiastic tuneup, with lots of chanting and squealing over guitar feedback and erratic pulsing rumble. Lynch's band has the same paranormal quality as her dance act. The few snippets of sustained songs are simplistic and ceremonial-complete with speaking in tongues. Sounding more like a hazy memory than an actual recording of music, the album's unrelenting tension can be panic-inducing. Whether the band is coming or going, it leaves a bewildering impression.
Lights Unfold (1990) further explores the outsides of abstraction. Beme Seed grabs the equivalent of breakbeats from psychedelic and noise music in an attempt to build something new and inspiring. Pagan paeans like "Old New Song" begin in climax and reach for enlightenment from there. Hand-lettered lyrics show Lynch is a sha(wo)man with a mission: "Move your body like you move your mind/Celebrate life, it's on time."
Recorded in New York with Wharton Tiers, Purify (1992) takes a stab at regular-sounding songs, where you can feel the beat and guess the changes. Accordingly, Lynch's tranced-out moans and Michael Albin's endless fried guitar wailing have a calming effect on incantations like "Inner Life Is Calling." Encroaching '60s sensibilities aside, the rainbow dance "I'm So Glad That Love Is Travelling All Around the World" is a provocative spaced-out mix of Jefferson Airplane and the Banshees.
The band broke up soon after. With even the Buttholes having lost their love of insanity by 1992, underground rock became nice and safe, and the riddle of Beme Seed was paved over without ever really being solved.
Ian Christe - Trouser Press
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check out this awesome 2006 review by The Sethman posted on Head Heritage of our 1989 first album:
The supernatural musical expressions within the first Beme Seed album compares favourably to the front covers photomontage of a standing figure in molecular outline suspended over a deserted and barren landscape. The form is present, but only hinted at in the loosest way and placed dead centre within a huge yet claustrophobic space. And with nine unconstructed, fragmentary half-forgotten shards of songs, Beme Seed operates within a similar place: one where nothing is defined yet always suggesting structure at the core of its raging emptiness. If you let go of concentration and just submit to its spontaneous seamlessness and barely controlled chaos, Beme Seed is like a drug you can turn on and off. And thats saying something for an album made in 1989 (or any year, for that matter.)
read the rest at:
the book of seth
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video
this video was done during a time when we had broken up and that's why only one person in the band is in it...i will have to digitize my own version, as all the stop-starting of this version i found makes it look like a slide show...(nothing wrong with a slide show...ha)
Right-click and download God Inside Video Here (much better quality than the one below)
God Inside
