Music | February 14, 2010 | 4 comments

Guardez Lou; Mocking The Thinking Man,Methinks

source: http://www.myspace.com/guardezlou

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Many a Time Was Heard; "They Could Be Worse"!
( but remember,....this is AUSTIN we are talking about,...)

Gardez Lou - the phrase used to warn passers-by of raw sewage about to be thrown from a window into the street below.


Formed in 1981, GUARDEZ LOU confused, terrified, and provided chuckles for the Austin TX music "scene" for 10 years with its jazz/funk/art-punk assault. After having several singers the line up finally settled as Tim Evgenides on guitar, David Griffy on bass, Dan Rabinovitsj on drums, and Paul Horsley filling the vocalist spot. Other members included Paul Comer, a former GLOU singer, who played second guitar for a while, and David Eccles who helped with song writing and visuals. Influences from many UK post punk bands such as Swell Maps, Section 25, Echo and The Bunnymen, Throbbing Gristle, as well Austin contemporary artists (Vertibeads, Big Boys, Hickoids, etc.) can be heard in the GLOU material. GUARDEZ LOU played venues such as Liberty Lunch, The Beach, Continental Club, Studio 29, Chances, The Black Cat, Austin Outhouse, The Axiom (Houston), and Wacky's (San Antonio) with acts including Scratch Acid, ST-37, Ed Hall, Nice Strong Arm, and Glass Eye. David and Tim were in a band prior to GLOU known as The Electric Tools, which primarily played at seminal punk clubs Raul's and Duke's Royal Coach Inn. GUARDEZ LOU finally released its first home studio recorded cassette album in 1987, The Cummerbund Salute, which was completed inside a church for acoustic value. In 1988 History Mystery was released, a compilation tape of of live tracks and various demos. The band then went into Lone Star Recording Studios and embarked on its 16 track 2 inch tape effort with engineer Mark Tester at the helm. The effort was named Cantankerous Juggernaut, and it was finally released early 1990 on cassette. Soon after, the band began to splinter, with members pursuing different personal and career interests. Other bands that GLOU were in later included Drug Zombies, Fried Pipers, Hundredth Monkey, Sibling Rivals, Organdy Snood, Keg Vultures, and The Indentations. The band reunited in the studio in 1997 and 2000, creating the tunes "Tone Tarts", and "Ahead of Myself", respectively.

Further evidence against them--(acoustic files n such)
http://www.myspace.com/guardezlou
http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/120/l_77462e2caae44301b14094384c6328...
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4 comments // Guardez Lou; Mocking The Thinking Man,Methinks

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    • From when they hit "The Beach"---
      The Last Days Of The Beach (-EVERY BINGE MUST END-)

      the Beach, September 26 & 27, 1986

      Aww, mamma, can this really be the end ... The Beach, after more than two years of faithful service to the, uh, seedier aspects of the Austin music scene, took its last bow, fittingly, with two nights of shows in which about a dozen bands participated. For some of them, as for some of the hundreds that came to watch, it was a dubious homecoming. The cast Friday featured Beach originals Zeitgeist, Texas Instruments, and Guardez Lou, who worked over the dancing feet and memory cells of all of us who watched them there so many times before. Singer Paul Horsey of Guardez Lou kept the crowd amused, as he always does, with various stunts -- most involving unnatural acts with a porcelain Mardi Gras mask and Vampire Blood -- and, this time, with Silly String as well. Well done, Horsey, but the band was also right on cue as it always is, despite guitar problems. Zeitgeist really tore that night, with a fine combination of melodies -- like "Freight Train Rain" and "Things Don't Change" -- that helped take them from the Beach to bigger and better things two summers ago, plus new favorites from their forthcoming album. By the time they played, around 2am, the crowd had largely evaporated, leaving behind a small but highly dedicated core of rapt fans, reminiscent of days of yore. The last band to grace the stage of the Beach Saturday was the Hickoids -- as obscene, manic, and uncontrolled a group of mutants as ever whopped a geetar. They played on and on and on until finally leaving, by ones and twos, trailing epithets, probably to puke, at 4am ... to be "stuck inside of Austin with no Beach to go to again"? -- not Bob Dylan ... well, almost. But that's not the point. Neither is it the point to balance the "bad" of the Beach with the "good," but rather to consider something else. That is, where will the next shows be? Where, indeed? But think back, who ever went looking for the Beach in the first place? I didn't. One day I just ended up there --

      http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:80348

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