The Beach Chromers
The Beach Chromers
The Beach Chromers: " degenerate, itinerant, drug addled, vagrant,bohemian and detirmindly defiant, are arguably THE GREAT WHITE HOPE
for nothing less the salvation of ROCK N ROLL itself. (or not)
They are not only about TRADITION, they are about THE FUTURE &
BEYOND, they’re about FUN INTHE SUN, they’re about FEARLESSNESS
in the face of a bleak "POST JOHNNY" (hang on a minute....... holy
crap..... its' still living) NEO CONSERVATISM.............their about
SLIPPIN' & A SLIDDIN'.. no hiddin' , no quater, no retreat baby ....&no
surrender."
" actually we was always just a good little rock n roll band",
was the response from ORGANIST Felix "THE CAT" Chapple when asked to
comment on THE LEAD GUITARISTS drunken, post gig ramblings after a particularlyeventfull gig at THE LOCAL FIVE & DIME where
said guitarist Jeff " NEARLY "Harrison had to be forcibly removedfrom the stage for, according to DRUMMER Grant "RALPHIE" Bueno'ssworn testimony " behaving like a complete and utter ASSHOLE........UTTER. UTTER UTTER ASSHOLE................."
HARRISON was" unavailable forcommert" at the time of printing.
Having seen the band several times myself, I would have to say
that what they are REALLY about is ROCK N ROLL.........well that and doingdrugs
and pulling "chicks".
In the summer of MILLENIUM&TWO a scratchy acetate of some EMBRYONIC,SONIC EXPERIMENTS in SURF/PULP found its VAGABOND way onto an unsuspectingBLACK MARKET. Having made the dubious transition from BLACK SHELLAC to the digitaldomain the MYTH, the LEGEND and............ the SO CALLED REALITY of THE BEACH CHROMERSbecomes harder and harder to unravel .....................................ittoo is still living......................
Bryan Wilson (former " food & wine "editor for 'Trax' magazine)
Recorded & Mixed at Soundpark Studios Melbourne Australia 2006
Engineered by Andrew Hahir
Mastered by Gerard McGough
Produced by Andrew Hahir and Jeff Harrison