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Edited Jul 23, 2014, 21:18
Re: Michael Yonkers Band
Jul 23, 2014, 09:07
As far as I know Michael Yonkers isn't schizophrenic, but he is disabled - he broke his back in a workplace accident then developed an allergy to the X-ray dye that left him with a degenerative spinal cord condition. Apparently that's the reason why he very rarely plays electric guitar anymore.

But yeah, regardless - it'a a great record. That solo in "Boy In The Sandbox" sounds like a million cluster bombs raining down on Saigon.. How he got a guitar to sound like that in 1968 is anyone's guess. Definitely a forerunner of some of the artier US post-punk bands like Pere Ubu and Sonic youth, and possibly some No Wave stuff as well. I first came across his music about five years ago in a Guardian piece about privately pressed records that have since attained cult status. The article mentioned him along with Bobb Trimble, George Brigman and the Roots of Madness, all of whom are pretty dashed good too, even if they don't sound particularly like each other.
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