Cheater Slicks – Live Vol. 3

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Cheater Slicks – Live Vol. 3

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Artist……………: Cheater Slicks

Album…………….: Live Vol. 3

Genre…………….: Noise Rock

Source……………: Vinyl

Year……………..: 2014

Ripper……………: Adobe Audition 1.5

Codec…………….: LAME 3.98

Version…………..: MPEG 1 Layer III

Quality…………..: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 268kbps)

Channels………….: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz

Tags……………..: ID3 v2.2

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Tracklisting

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1. (00:17:49) Cheater Slicks – Thinkin Some More

2. (00:18:52) Cheater Slicks – Sister Ray

Playing Time………: 00:36:41

Total Size………..: 70.66 MB

NFO generated on…..: 4/19/2014 3:08:51 PM

Live album info

“At the time the Cheater Slicks were doing this song that was 30 minutes long (‘Thinkin’ Some More’). I’d heard about it, and I’d probably heard it on a cassette, and they played it that night. Once they started playing it, I knew what it was, and once it was going on and on I was getting more and more excited. And there were probably like seven people in the venue. This was not a well-attended show. The song’s going on and on and it’s beautiful, it’s amazing. This fantastic thing is happening, and I’m just overcome with excitement because it sounds so great. So at one point I picked up a table and was gonna throw it at the stage to express my admiration, but the table proved to be too heavy and it kind of fell behind me. I think it may have fallen on Tom Lax of the Siltbreeze label.” — Jon Spencer

Still Single:

News of this release stinks, for two reasons unrelated to the music within: first, this marks the end of the series for Cheater Slicks live recordings, at least as far as we know it; second, this release came with the sad and inevitable news that the label which released it, Columbus Discount, is calling it quits. I was a little hard on those dawgs at first, but they showed up and proved like few labels have, particularly those with mostly local/regional slants such as theirs. They barreled through tough times as the world slowly grew comfortable, then re-familiarized, and all of a sudden fans of Ohio-born music once again. Once there, they spread the goodwill throughout decades of “most known unknown” status legends like Ron House, Mike Rep, Tommy Jay and Nudge Squidfish, not to mention the Cheater Slicks, three Boston ex-pats who moved to Columbus in the early ‘90s and stayed put, to guard the sacred flames of rock & roll. They’re proof that you can be in the best rock band in the world, releasing records that quantitatively stand above all others in terms of sheer breakneck rock shitstomp, and still be broke and ignored by most of the populace. You could say that fame wouldn’t suit ‘em, and if they had the keys to the establishment they’d probably mow down half the Earth with it, indiscriminately, and you and I could be among those killed. But there’s no point in taunting Dana Hatch and the brothers Shannon with promises unfulfilled. Almost everyone else has done that, and now, with four full-lengths in the barrel, and CDR shuttering its doors, they are as well.

What they’re leaving us with might even eclipse the highs of the last two Live volumes. Rather than record full shows from recent years, Live Vol. 3 sticks to the veritable bookends of the band’s 25+ year run: the long songs. Side A contains a rendition of their master jam “Thinkin’ Some More,” cut for their third album Whiskey, live from Philadelphia’s Khyber Pass in the fall of 1992. On Whiskey this track runs about 28 minutes, and if you’ve never heard it, well, its length is earned, as pure and lowdown an explanation of the riff as you’re ever gonna hear. This one cracks 20, sped up and lowered down for inspection, strummed till most wrists would swell, tendons tear, bones grind into paste. Some wiseass makes a comment right towards the end, which seems directed at the band, and if it was, I’d hope the guy got all his teeth loosened right before they bring it back at the end to full strength. There’s a quote from Jon Spencer on the back sleeve that explains the excitement behind the Slicks playing this song, hearing it for the first time, and picking up a table to throw in the destructive ecstasy of it all, only to have it surprise him with its weight and land on Tom Lax instead. That story sucks but this song is the truth. It’s a journey, and you’ll do well to go on it.

Side B is the grand statement of any band attempting the audience wear down-cum-trans-substantiation, flesh made time: a cover of “Sister Ray,” recorded in Columbus in 2009. The matter-of-fact, non-flash vocal stylings are not to be worried about, not to trouble any of you unsure about what will transpire. The band spends a few minutes warming up the riff to such dirty grandeur as another local treasure, Mike Rep & The Quotas’ “Heroes and Idols” before the shape of it grabs hold of anyone who’s ever experienced the pinnacle moment of the Velvet Underground’s existence (not up for discussion, please talk to someone who gives a shit). They rev it, bestowing upon it the honor which it deserves. Then they start smearing it, getting up to speed, and letting loose with greater degrees of danger, culminating into a breach – the last five or six minutes or so are absolute chaos, klaxons wailing in anticipation of the maniac nuclear fuckmonster these guys shook out of some E.C. Comics nightmare, to let loose on the handful of people left standing after its wrecking balls bust the roof off the building, covering all attendees with soot and debris and asbestos fibers. This is deadly, really, fossils of rock coming back to life in the hands of the only band that understands their secrets. You would be wise to not underestimate the Cheater Slicks at any point in their history, but these two snapshots provide some of the realest, cruelest tricks ever pulled on an audience, tendon-slicing dirtblades covered in sweat and smell, two ultimate expression of rock in the long form. Anyone who you can share this with that gains some wisdom from the filth caked within is a true friend on some level. And you need a few new friends. (http://www.columbusdiscountrecords.com)