Does
anyone make better rock records than Spencer P Jones? Never mind
that he was part of a legendary alcohol-filled session which helped
define Australian rock and roll, the Beasts of Burbon's 'The Axeman's
Jazz'. Singer Tex Perkins and others have been firing their souls
to the incendiary inspiration of that record ever since. Never mind
that Spencer has cut his own illustrious career path, through the
fun punk of the 80s Johnnys to his guitar for hire roles for Paul
Kelly and Renee Geyer. It's all part of the ways and means towards
Spencer's own performances and records, filled with the growling
impatient restless menace real rock and roll is made of. Recently
records have mirrored or been the end product of Spencer's latest
live adventures. A man with too much music going on for his own
good, this record finds Spence in front of three different line-ups,
two local one in New York. But it's Spencer who's in the spotlight,
hat on head, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, guitar
in hand, telling you how life is or how he wants to imagine it.
It don't matter. It ain't pretty. Whether he's the predatory lover
in 'Whole Way Down, or 'Mean Arnold' the mean motherfuker on his
way to the radio station to get his music played, you sense that
Spencer and his imagination, hover between life's real hell and
one of his creation. But he's making do. Through music. Life's a
bitch, and if you make music about it, it has to have bite. On top
of everything Spencer P Jones is a songwriter to reckon with. Try
to get some of these songs out of your head.
Does
anyone make better rock records than Spencer P Jones? Never mind
that he was part of a legendary alcohol-filled session which helped
define Australian rock and roll, the Beasts of Burbon's 'The Axeman's
Jazz'. Singer Tex Perkins and others have been firing their souls
to the incendiary inspiration of that record ever since. Never mind
that Spencer has cut his own illustrious career path, through the
fun punk of the 80s Johnnys to his guitar for hire roles for Paul
Kelly and Renee Geyer. It's all part of the ways and means towards
Spencer's own performances and records, filled with the growling
impatient restless menace real rock and roll is made of. Recently
records have mirrored or been the end product of Spencer's latest
live adventures. A man with too much music going on for his own
good, this record finds Spence in front of three different line-ups,
two local one in New York. But it's Spencer who's in the spotlight,
hat on head, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, guitar
in hand, telling you how life is or how he wants to imagine it.
It don't matter. It ain't pretty. Whether he's the predatory lover
in 'Whole Way Down, or 'Mean Arnold' the mean motherfuker on his
way to the radio station to get his music played, you sense that
Spencer and his imagination, hover between life's real hell and
one of his creation. But he's making do. Through music. Life's a
bitch, and if you make music about it, it has to have bite. On top
of everything Spencer P Jones is a songwriter to reckon with. Try
to get some of these songs out of your head.