Born To Be Wild

Name: Born To Be Wild
Brand: Kim Fowley
SKU: 88536
Price: 13.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

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Cat No: 88536

Release Date: 01 April 2018

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8435395502020

Description
Elemental Music, together with Universal Music Spain presents a CD reissue of the long unavailable third studio album by one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll: singer, songwriter, producer, manager and published poet Kim Fowley. Back in the 60s when Hollywood producers of teensploitation B-movies wanted to reflect the hip psychedelic music of the time, they all too often employed Los Angeles studio hacks to record watered-down go-go jams with square-sounding surf guitars up front. Its hard to tell if Kim Fowley was trying to make fun of this phenomenon with his 1968s Born to Be Wild, or if he was just attempting to record more legitimately cool instrumentals to be used in random biker, hot-rod or surf-gang movies. Either way, he succeeded. A cover of the Steppenwolf classic opens with a solid horn section and dirty, distorted electric guitars backing up a lead Hammond organ. The results sound more like Kent-label mod-jazz than anything else. Fowley and company keep The Doors Hello I Love You pretty close to the original (but with an actual bass guitar), while their take on Status Quos Pictures of Matchstick Men becomes an eerie-sounding affair trimmed with Phantom of the Opera-sounding organ and loads of reverb.
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