The
Steamtrain's First Recording. A classic, recorded by the boys themselves.
This one is from the days before Joe and Ken joined the band. It's a little
more lo-fi and a little more personal. Most of the songs are still a big
part of the Steamtrain's live shows.
Life is safer and more
exciting on Girl Planet than anywhere else in the shag-o-sphere. The songs
on this joyous-beast-of-a-record range from brilliant to better, from fiery
to feathery. It has more sexedhelic horsepower than an octopus has suction;
more groove than a grove has leaves; and more taste than an elephant has
daydreams. Lord Russ' valiant voice takes no prisoners and requires no cheerleaders.
It is a voice laced with a wistful gusto reminiscent of those sandbox days,
when every kind of bird, from robin to grackle to partridge, rained down
its blue and lonely syllables of vulnerable intimacy and a heartbreaking
desire to never be fully understood. And what can one say about the melodious
antics of that tireless rapscallion bassist (lanky ham), Señor Ohlenbusch,
that hasn't already been said by a million fireflies copulating in a crepuscular
glade preparing for an evening of divine ballet? To say he is a lean, clean,
clown-engined machine, would be overstressing the girth of his poetic breadth.
The drummer, Monsignor Todd, is a genuine whirligig of carnal badinage,
a blistering wilderness of rhythmical conundrums, or in plainer english,
let's just say he kicks enough bottom to qualify him for eternal citizenship
on that groovy little swinging globe known as Girl Planet. So, fasten your
sweet-belts, mates, because The Aloha Steamtrain is less a band than they
are an omnivorous carnival of hotpink persuasion, whose noble (albeit libidinous)
mission is to free the willies and thaw the digits of every frozen man on
earth, and to add cinnamon and mischief to the bubblebaths of every woman's
privacy. So, goodbye headaches, farewell doldrums, adios ulcers, The Aloha
Steamtrain, like its kissable cousin, The Little Red Caboose, is enroute
to Toytown as we speak, lugging its cargo of erotic delights and eclectic
wonders, for all the boys and girls to share, as they will one day share
each other.
-Connolly Ryan P.I.
Track
Listing:
Last Week
Girl Planet
Cynical Mayor's Son-
Before I Come-
Two Of A Kind
Waste Of Time
Credits:
Lord
Russ - Guitars, Electric Sitar, Vocals, Arp (Drums and Bass on track 7)
Henning Ohlenbusch - Bass Mellotron
Brian Todd - Drums, Percussion
All songs written by Lord Russ
Produced by The Aloha Steamtrain
Tracks 1-5 recorded at home by The Steamtrain
Track 6 recorded at Zing Studios, Westfield, MA
Tracks 7 and 8 recorded at home by Lord Russ
Mastered at The Monkeyhouse, Northampton, MA
Clay Steamtrain created by Sue Thibodeau
Photography by Henning
All songs: Lord Russ (c) 1997
Also by The Aloha Steamtrain:
Now
You Know (2000)
The Aloha Steamtrain (2002)