Cheater Slicks

Cheater Slicks

Ill-Fated Cusses

In The Red

Cheater Slicks, the take-no-prisoners Columbus, Ohio-based trio, return to Los Angeles’ In The Red Records with the thrilling, musically diverse Ill-Fated Cusses, their first album in eight years and their first package for the label in twenty years. The ten-track collection follows Piano Tunnels, a freewheeling, improvisation-based benefit collaboration with vocalist Bill Gage, whom the band has known since the then newly-formed trio and the singer’s group BILL were working in the Boston area in 1987. Other players joined this record other than core members Tom and Dave Shannon and Dana Hatch. Will Foster, who recorded the record, is heard playing various keyboards and MIDI instrument emulations on the finished record. Most interestingly, James Arthur, of Fireworks and the Necessary Evils, was drafted to play bass, and he appears on every song on the album. Cheater Slicks had not deviated from the two-guitars-and-drums formula since its early days in Boston, when bassists Dina Pearlman, Allen “Alpo” Paulino of the Real Kids, and Merle Allin, brother of the notorious GG Allin, all rotated through the group. After thirty-five years in business, it makes about as much sense to pigeonhole Cheater Slicks as simply a “garage-rock band” as it would to call the Rolling Stones a “blues band.” Ill-Fated Cusses, more than any other album in the group’s discography, explores a broad musical palette on its nine original songs and one cover, Memphis rockabilly icon Charlie Feathers’ stark barroom murder ballad “Cold Dark Night.” This latest chapter in the Cheater Slicks saga...

Cheater Slicks

Destination Lonely

Almost Ready

***REISSUED!!! CHEATER SLICKS' Destination Lonely is perhaps the most important record of their long and spectacular discography. Their second full length, it marks the beginning of their decision to remain a trio after first Alpo and then Merle Allin departed the band and the inability to recruit any suitable replacements on bass. So began the SHANNON / SHANNON / HATCH line-up that still soldiers on today. Originally released on the Australian Dog Meat label, the LP documents the beginnings of what were their most productive years, with three LPs and seven singles (or thereabouts) coming in this fruitful 1991-1995 period. Destination Lonely contains the blueprint for future releases, an unbeatable mix of covers and originals played through over-amped guitars with DANA and TOM sharing vocal duties. Here we get our first taste of what might be Dana's signature number, the savage knuckle-drag that is "Murder," a song that is still a staple in their live sets. The big heart-render here is "If Heaven is Your Home," one of the first of many, many outpourings of the rawest in real emotion that have become their forte. And the title track is the type of straight-ahead-into-a-brick-wall rock'n'roll burner that will leave your needle scorched. The cover selection is impeccable: two fitting Aussie garage covers ("Rum Drunk" and "This Life of Mine"), a blistering "In and Out" (before The Mummies did it) and a handful more ranging from the obscure (Silverfleet?!) to the almost popular (Love's "Can't Explain"). These are the sounds of...

Cheater Slicks

Skidmarks

Crypt

***Columbus nee Boston scorch-hammers bring a massive-nasty collection of tracks recorded between 1989 and 1994. Oddities, rarities and vintage spew from some of the meanest garage bombers to have ever broken a guitar. Includes a bunch of tracks from the Alpo sessions, a plodding rip through a 13th Floor Elevators standard, some pysch nonsense, A Mad Mike & the Mechanics cover, a lost Don't Like You demo, a live radio broadcast in Boston on WMBR, '92, and a beer-soaked, shit-load more. Eighteen tracks, all hail the wail.

Cheater Slicks

On Your Knees

Almost Ready

***"Long-awaited reissue of the first CHEATER SLICKS full length, recorded during their Boston tenure during the '80s. Originally released via the Gadawful label in 1989 and quickly disappearing, On Your Knees has sat atop many a Slicks fan's wantlist until now. Recorded as a four-piece with MERLE ALLIN on bass, the Slicks run through eleven numbers with the same intensity and weathered guitar-storm they would still be unleashing on the world over 25 years later. Contains tracks such as 'Bruno's Night Out,' 'I Won't Last Another Day,' 'Chaos' and 'I've Been Had' that remain among their best and begins their habit of recovering forgotten gems from the past, covering Mad Mike & The Maniacs ('The Hunch') and The Bell Tones ('A Sad Guitar'). An essential piece of the Slicks' discography, but aren't they all?"

Cheater Slicks

Whiskey

In The Red

Cheater Slicks

Yer Last Record

In The Red

***THE CHEATER SLICKS have been responsible for some of the raunchiest racket around for more than fifteen years. Atonal and hateful. Music for misanthropes. Fuzzed out, freaked out and bummed out. Psychedelic-garage-noise-pop for miscreants. Music made by misfits for misfits. Tales of transsexuals, suicide attempts and bad acid trips. Eleven brand new slices of sludge so thick it'll clog your stereo speakers. 100% negative energy rock'n'roll.

Cheater Slicks

Don't Like You

In The Red

Cheater Slicks

Forgive Thee

In The Red

Psych/noise/garage/punk/pop/roots from this Boston, now Columbus trio. 95-minutes strong.

Cheater Slicks

Refried Dreams

In The Red

***Having scratched out their brand of fire-breathing rock'n'roll for more than ten years, the CHEATER SLICKS return with another explosive album. Considered too noisy and abstract for garage rock purists, too loud and too rock'n'roll for the indie rock crowd, and just too damn good to not be taken daily (preferably with a whiskey back). Now relocated from Boston to Columbus, Ohio, the band shatters the barriers of psycho-psychedelia, and amphetamine-assault with eleven wailing blasts of misfit melancholia, anarchic amplification, and free-range low-end rumble. We're talking about a full style trashing here, trashed and then redefined in the true spirit of primal rock music.