The Oozkicks
In about 1981 these really
young kids from Webster Groves caused quite a commotion on
the local scene because of their entirely original sound,
quality musicianship and extreme youth.
They also were represented
by Alan Kalina, this old guy (maybe 30 at the time) who
apparantly worked for KSHE-95 or something, and who was
regarded as one of the enemy by some people in the scene,
because KSHE was always, and still is, the total opposite of
experimentation in rock and roll.
The Oozkicks had cropped
hair with wild streaks of color like psychedelic raccoon
caps and jerked their little elastic teen necks in time to
their herky-jerky atonal riffs and were just the coolest
thing imaginable.
They could be heard on the
LP Test Patterns, put out by Jet Lag magazine. The songs on
the album didn't do justice to the sound they were known for
live. |