Crazy Drums! E.P - Various artists
- johnaalex
- May 30
- 3 min read
Title: Crazy Drums! E.P
Band: Various artists
Released: February 2025
Label: It’s a Panic “Savage instrumentals” – Serial no. Pan-EP-103
Reviewed: May 2025
Genre: Rock and Roll/beat/instrumental/surf
Produced by: Ed Deegan, Mark Neill (mastering), Liam Watson, David Doyle (engineer)
Reviewed by: A. D. Stranik
Track by track…
Okay… this review is being written in something of a frenzy, but then I guess that’s pretty much how I live my life, so business as usual then…
THE QUIET THREE (So quiet, I’ve never heard of them) take the floor with the quite excellent DEL SCHORCHIO… a kind of ‘Sandy Nelson getting in touch with his inner savage’ episode, courtesy of a certain Mr Brian Neville thumping away on those pagan skins and a two-bass, two-pronged attack (six-string Burns and stand-up) from Bruce Brand and Matt Radford, respectively. I think it’s fair to assume that these guys are in no way connected to Parlophone’s 60s beat combo The Quiet Five. Although, who knows? Could be the same outfit after two of them left… Anyhoo, this is a fabulous opener and sets the correct tone of what’s to come.
THE PANASONICS’ KAISER PAN is a full-frontal sonic attack that could be the demented inbred cousin of Dick Dale’s MISERLOU: a reinterpretation of a tune from Scotland’s finest, The Kaisers, this breakneck beat assault originally saw action on the PANASONICS’ one and only debut 10” LP and features Takashi Manabe (AKA Mr Pan from Japan), who has quite the pedigree in his own right. Check him out.
No lull before this storm, baby! EDDIE ANGEL’S GUITAR PARTY brings the thunder with… THUNDER. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that Billy Childish or one of his many spin-offs had a hand in this, given the unhinged rawness, but I do know better (having read the liner notes), and I’m here to tell you that THUNDER is positively Childless but boasts the bass ‘n’ beat expertise of the aforementioned Matt Radford and Brian Neville.
Every pack has at least one joker, and here it comes in the form of DEKE DICKERSON & THE ECCO-PHONICS’ GUITAR IN ORBIT PT. 37. What this lacks in ‘are you staring at my pint’ aggressiveness is more than made up by its off-beat originality. Could almost be the theme tune for a delinquent TV show. With its almost Tyrolean Oompah bridge, I can almost smell the lederhosen and feel the slaps just listening to it. Always up for an unexpected excursion here at Stranik Towers, and I think the more discerning among you will go for this one too. Seriously, GUITAR IN ORBIT is just plain loco and nuts!
In summary,
The sleeve liner notes are already somewhat extensive, so I’ll keep this brief. Essentially a re-release, all these tracks were originally recorded and unleashed on an unsuspecting public back in those lazy, crazy, hazy days of the late 90s but never in this small but perfectly formed 7” package. CRAZY DRUMS! comes in myriad vinyl colours: pink, white and red, as far as I know. There may be others, but I’m a busy man, so I haven’t had time to check. But whatever the hue, I beseech thee to treat thyself to this veritable ‘four horsemen of the garage apocalypse’ today!
Track list…
A1. THE QUIET THREE (Featuring Brian Neville) – Del Scorcho
A2. THE PANASONICS – Kaiser Pan
B1. EDDIE ANGEL`S GUITAR PARTY – Thunder
B2. DEKE DICKERSON & THE ECCO-PHONICS – Guitar in Orbit Pt. 37
Get it here!
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