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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby
Continuing my investigation of early electric blues, I came across this guy.
Prominent use of power chords and the most distorted tube amp tone I've heard this early in the genre makes him a notable precursor to heavy rock acts that would later emerge. Imagine how aggressive this tone sounded in the day - it's a pretty dirty overdrive tone even now, and he was using overdrive for overdrive's sake, at a time when most musicians simply tolerated it as a limitation of the amplification available at the time.
On another note, this was recorded in 1954 - in 1962 he'd actually go ahead and kill his girlfriend as well as shoot the cop that came to investigate, go on to form a band in jail, and later die of lung cancer.
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Was listening to this of the Jr Parker Mysery Train CD as Hare played with Parker for a while, great CD great track,
ah well on the subject of musicians killing their girlfriends I present the late great Don Drummond who hacked his girlfriend up in the late 60's after being seminal in creating ska and early rock steady in Jamaica.