TRACKLIST
1. WRESTRLING ROCK'N'ROLL
2. TAKE IT OFF
3. SHAKE IT BABY
4. YEA PRETTY BABY YEA
5. BABY WHAT'S GOING ON
6. HEY GAL!
7. WILD BABY WOW
8. I WANNA BE YOUR PUSSYCAT
9. HURT ME
10. HONEY BABY BLUES
11. BABY FUCK OFF
12. IT'S NEVER TOO LATE
13. HI HO BABY
14. MIDFUCKINBITCHASS
15. HELL YEA!
16. WRESTLING ROCK'N'ROLL GIRL
17. I'M GONNA KILL YOU TONIGHT
18. WRESTLING WITH SATAN
19. I LOVE YOU |
LIGHTNING BEAT-MAN AND HIS NO TALENT
"WRESTLING ROCK'N'ROLL"
LP: VR1245 (EAN CODE:7640111767497)
CD: VRCD45 (EAN CODE:7640111767428)
FIRST RELEASE 1994
As Young 13 year old Beat-Man (born. Beat Zeller) he started experimenting with his 4 Track machine, first under the Name Taeb Zerfall (1985) , then in 1992 after a Longer US Trip and inspired by Mexican Wretling in Los Angeles under the Name Lightning Beat-Man, back then the main theme was: "I FIGHT ON STAGE AGAINST ME AND MY GUITAR AND BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF IT AND WIN EVERY NIGHT" the Rawness and Directness of the Recordings are Unbeatable for the Time it came out, it Was the time when Techno and DJ's totally took over everything and there was absolutely no Space for Trash at all.. when the Record came out it didn't sell lot and the critics where very bad in the beginning also for the Live shows (the theme of the live shows where, play as Bad ,Fucked Up and Drunk as possible) but after a while came Touring in Europe and Shows together with the Ramones, Dick Dale , Prince, Fireworks Dead Moon and many more (almost 250 shows a year) and his Own Little Show on VIVA and MTV where he travels Around the US with a Wrestling Mask and interviewing People and Visiting Graveyards of Dead Rock'n'roll Artists, and the 2nd Album (Apartment Wrestling Rock'n'Roll- voodoo rhythm) who came on the Marked like a Atomic Explosion and as well made this 1st Album as a Collectors item, so we thought to give it to the People again together with 3 Outstanding Noisy Trashed out Bonus Tracks, and yea the Whole Album and Recordings are as Fresh as they would be made today.. the only problem is a Ground Noise that the Tascam Tape Deck had while recording.. but that's how it is if you Record in a LOW BUDGET WAY
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REVIEWS
CLEAR SPOT (NL)
The rawness and directness of the recordings are unbeatable for the time it came out, it was the time when techno and DJs totally took over everything and there was absolutely no space for trash at all.. when the record came out it didnt sell lot and the critics where very bad in the beginning also for the Live shows (the theme of the live shows where, play as Bad ,Fucked Up and Drunk as possible) but after a while came Touring in Europe and Shows together with the Ramones, Dick Dale , Prince, Fireworks Dead Moon and many more (almost 250 shows a year) and his Own Little Show on VIVA and MTV where he travels Around the US with a Wrestling Mask and interviewing People and Visiting Graveyards of Dead Rocknroll Artists, and the 2nd Album (Apartment Wrestling RocknRoll- Voodoo Rhythm) who came on the marked like a Atomic Explosion and as well made this 1st Album as a Collectors item, so we thought to give it to the People again together with 3 Outstanding Noisy Trashed out Bonus Tracks, and yea the whole album and recordings are as fresh as they would be made today.. the only problem is a Ground Noise that the Tascam Tape Deck had while recording.. but thats how it is if you record in a LOW BUDGET WAY !
SLEAZEGRINDER ( USA)
This, oh holy laggards and lung-bleeds of sleaze legend, is the first ever 4-track freak-out hobble cobbled amidst slum-dank kitchens and derelict conditions from the ineffable beast of bedlam and spiritual Texan berserker Mr Beat Man. Ayussss, yass n' yessir, the Swiss by birth but medal-bearing steak-shearing tower of blare-bel sniping Texan by nature through issuing such a relentless storm of seizure-scrabbling adventures in vinyl and gut-contracting compact disc, began his campaign of heroic cretiny with this caustic carotid quaffer. As the cognoscenti of calamity can smell a continental turnstile away this is a track record constituting such a hazy bad things diet the Buttholes would be baffled, Hazil Adkins left toilet-bound and Bob Log whimpering in a diaper in some dungeon having sought frantic refuge in a torture garden of revolving gore. This noxious nugget bursts forth with the masochistically ecstatic glee of the curtailment of constipation after a heavy regime of codeine and cider and a few other concoctions inbetween times, or days, perchance, and is the perfect case to hold up in courts of sores and nausea in any country to show what bands in the VR stable have to live up to. That many do in excelsis is another fairytale to keep yer kith n' kin safe n' warm with, slithering like slugs and cig butts in your morning cups. As he still does, just slightly more refined, if possible, Beat Man here splurts out cacophonous dins of psychotic glee and unrestrained perversity like I'm Gonna Kill You Tonight and Wrestling With Satan, yet also regales your withered sinews with the lovely scab-picking country lilt-a-leer of Honey Baby Blues and Baby Fuck Off. Oh aye, ok then.
A toxic treat glorying in inelegant ineptitude with Little Richard screeches if he was reincarnated as a confused horny dawg whose dang had ling-longed off a lifetime or two ago and let loose among the canine equivalent of a Girl Guide camp hosting the Hugh Hefner household for an award show. Home-made mong-out of the highest order. Stu Gibson
MOTORAVER (D)
Selbst 14 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung ist des Beat-Mans Erstling "Wrestling Rock´n´Roll" immer noch wild und gefährlich und ein unglaublich direkter Schlag in die Fresse der modernen Zivilisation. 1994 als 10" herausgekommen blieb die Platte wenigen Auserwählten vorbehalten und ist für den Normalsterblichen mittlerweile nicht mehr bezahlbar oder besser gesagt eh nicht mehr zu bekommen. Der König hat nun aber ein Einsehen mit seiner Gefolgschaft und veröffentlicht die Scheibe jetzt als 12" und das erste mal als CD und macht damit den musikalischen Grundstein für die "Weltherrschaft" des ---> Beat-Man für alle zugänglich. Ergänzt werden die 16 Originalsongs mit 3 Bonustracks, die live mitgeschnitten wurden und eindrucksvoll die Direktheit der One Man Band dokumentieren. Das Bekenntnis zum Primitiven und die vollkommene Überdrehung des Garage-Rock schlug Anfang der 90er hohe Wellen. Das Pendel schlug zwischen totaler Ablehnung und absoluter Hingabe aus - dazwischen gibt es nichts. Wer den Beat-Man damals als Wrestler mit seiner Akustikgitarre erleben konnte, der wird noch seinen Enkeln davon erzählen. Mit dem vertonten Bekenntnis zum Trash führte der Mann aus der Schweiz die Welt heraus aus Grunge und Techno und seine Jünger ins Licht. Und mit solchen All-Time-Favourites wie "I´m Gonna Kill You Tonight" oder "I Wanna Be Your Pussycat" hat er sich sowieso in unser Gehirn gefräst. Der König ist tot, hoch lebe der Reverend!
PSYCHADELICFOLK (NL)
In the light of Reverend Beat-Man's second vision with the Lightning Beat-Man I couldn't help of thinking back to the great and funny movie of "Nacho Libre" (2006)*, about a Mexican father who always dreamed of becomming, and then really becomes a wrestler, and is accepted because the business wants a loser. Lightning Beat-Man is also a good combination of fun and seriousness, based upon raw and primitive rock'n roll with some variety of ideas with each song. Most tracks are sung and screamed with deformed/speakers/telephone voice, once with a funny helium telephone voice ("Shake it baby"), then is making funny sounds ("I wane be your pussycat" & "Wild baby wow"), is teasing seductive primitive in nature, with some over the top distorted electric guitars ("take it off"), or with hard rocking fuzz guitars ("baby what's going on") or almost psychedelic ("hell yeah!") –still rock'n roll-, occasionally played a bit faster ("hi ho baby") or like raw acoustic home recording (the bonus track "I love you"). This makes fun in every sense of rock'n roll destined to like it.
I94 BAR (AUS)
This is about as basic as lo-fi rock and roll gets without becoming noise. Compared to this, Hasil Adkins sounds like sophisticated cocktail music, Charlie Feathers is a crooner and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy seems perfectly lucid. This is where it all began in the recording sense for Lightning Beat-Man, the Swiss maniac who made wrestling masks and fucked-up one-man-bandship go hand-in-hand across Europe and pockets of the USA in the late '80s. "Wrestling Rock 'n' Roll" was his first album and many hoped it would be his last, such was the extreme place he'd taken his '50s and early '60s inspirations. Inept in places - but somehow charmingly so - it became a warped collector's item for warped collectors. Hence its re-issue in 2008 on CD. The Beat-Man ethos was, and remains, simple, whether it's with a band or solo: Strip it back till it doesn't have a stitch on, come up with your own tuning and thrash the shit out of instrument, voice and song.It's not pretty to watch but neither is amateur brain surgery. Like the Cramps taken to their n'th degree, most of these songs are about sex, sex or sex. His vocal sounds like Popeye doing 12 rounds bareknuckle with Brutus Beefcake after dropping mescaline. If you don't get the drift after reading song titles like "Baby Fuck Off", "MIdfuckinbitchass", "I Wanna Be Your Pussycat", "Wrestling With Satan" and "I'm Gonna Kill You Tonight" you're probably a Metallica fan or in rehab already. So you've gotten this far? You're probably familiar with Lightning Beat-Man's modus operandi or wondering why you're bothering but believe it when I write that there's a visceral thrill and amusement in hearing this. Yes, the lead-break in "Baby Fuck Off" is so far out of tune it'd give a deaf man a headache but that's the point. Noise Annoys and that's Beat-Man's reason for being. Maybe not essential unless you're a fan but if you don't try it out how will you know? - The Barman
LORDS OF ROCK (CH)
Avant d'arpenter les festivals en soutane à prêcher la voie du rock trash, Reverend Beat-Man avait sa période catch Mexicain comme beaucoup d'autres adolescents de son âge. C'est seulement après un grave accident de scène qu'il a eu la révélation allant le convertir de Lightning Beat-Man à Reverend Beat-Man. Afin de ramener à la lumière son heure de gloire sur le ring, Beat-Man réédite Wrestling Rock'n'Roll. Une vieillerie de 1994 épuisée depuis plus de dix ans, mais fournie avec son lots de bonus. Dès la première écoute, on se rend compte que, à part le costume et la devise ("I fight on stage against me and my guitar and beat the shit out of it and win every night"), Beat-Man a toujours été fidèle au rock trash. Qualité de son immonde, du vulgaire à la pelle, on ne change pas une recette qui gagne. Question contenu, on adore ou on déteste. Le côté révérend lui permet quand même de faire plus de jeux de mots que le côté catcheur. Les jokes associées sont un peu limités aux textes d'introduction et aux "wrestling" qui sont hurlés de temps autre. Cependant, le morceau "Wrestling Rock'n'Roll" reste un de ses meilleurs. Et, dans un autre registre, il semblerait que "I Wanna Be Your Pussycat" soit son morceau le plus téléchargé. Côté bonus, qualifiés de "trashed out bonus tracks", l'intro de "I'm Gonna Kill You Tonight" vaut l'écoute. Le second bonus, "Wrestling With Satan", combine le même air gentillet qu'on peut retrouver sur "Here Comes Your Man" des "Pixies" à la voix totalement improbable et à bout de Beat-Man pour le meilleur effet. Le tout est enregistré à la "low-budget style" sur un enregistreur à casettes Tascam pour avoir ce bruit de fond continu. Qu'est ce qu'on ne ferait pas pour donner une touche authentique à son œuvre? Ni vraiment bon, ni vraiment mauvais, Wrestling Rock'n'Roll s'adresse quand même aux plus fidèles suivants de Beat-Man. Le plus facile, reste quand même de le citer: "Anyway, I hope you still find this interesting.. and will blow your head off.. like 15 years ago".
Gonzo Circus (NL)
Dit keer geen nieuw werk van Lightning Beat-Man, maar een heruitgave van een elpee uit 1994. Het was toentertijd zijn eerste album en deze inmiddels illustere schat aan liedjes (die eerder nooit werden heruitgegeven en voor hoge bedragen heen en weer gaan op veilingsites) verschijnt nu voor het eerst op cd (en vinyl uiteraard), met drie bonusnummers. En inderdaad, deze opnames zijn essentieel om het getalenteerde genie van Lightning Beat-Man ten volle te doorgronden. Hij was in zijn Mexican Wrestling periode, vandaar ook de titel van de plaat. Bij elk concert zette hij een worstelmasker op zijn lugubere kop waarna hij als een gek tekeer ging op zijn instrumenten, als one-man-band uiteraard. Beat Zeller, zoals 's mans echte naam luidt, experimenteerde al op dertienjarige leeftijd met een 4-track en na een trip op negentienjarige leeftijd naar Los Angeles raakte hij helemaal in de ban van Mexican Wrestling, wat hij in zijn muziek en verschijning incorporeerde. Rauw, rudimentair en direct klinken de songs nog steeds, alleen missen we op de plaat uiteraard de wilde show die hij ermee neerzette. Fucked Up en dronken ging Beat-Man tekeer, in een periode waarin techno en dj's de dienst uitmaakten keerde hij terug naar de essentie. Een tot het minimum beperkte drum, zijn gitaar en zijn rauwe stem waren en zijn voldoende om nummers als 'I Wanna Be Your Pussycat' (een klassieker inmiddels), 'Wild Baby Wow' en 'Midfuckinbitchass' vorm te geven. Dit is een plaat vol rock'n'roll zonder opsmuk, thrash zoals die hoort te klinken. Velen na hem gingen als one-man-band aan de slag, maar zo essentieel als deze plaat klinken die mensen zelden. Zelfrelativering kende hij trouwens toen al, getuige de naam voor zijn onbestaande begeleidingsband: No Talent. Maar hij heeft het wel. 'Brain Fuckin' Rock'n'Roll' noemt hij het zelf, en we kunnen dat slechts beamen. (Patrick Bruneel)
STAY CHICK MAGAZINE (ES)
El mítico primer disco de Lightnin´Beatman , "Wrestling Rock´n´Roll", pieza de coleccionismo trash donde las haya vuelve a la circulación gracias a esta reedición hecha por el propio Beatman en su sello Voodoo Rhythm . Incluye el super hit "I wanna be your pussycat" y 3 bonus traces llenas de baja fidelidad.. Ala corred a comprarlo!!!
KINKATS (D)
Beat-Man hat schon früh begonnen, Musik zu machen und selbst aufzunehmen. Alles alleine. Inspiriert durch mexikanisches Wrestling trat er auf der Bühne frei nach dem Motto „Ich wrestle auf der Bühne gegen mich und meine Gitarre und gewinne immer" auf. Eine konsequente Einstellung! Wie der Beat-Man es geschafft hat, ständig zu gewinnen: keine Ahnung. Schon dafür sollte man ihm kräftig die Hand schütteln. Der Beat-Man macht sicher keine Schubladen-Musik. Der Einfachheit halber könnte man sie als brachialen, krachigen Trash mit Rockabilly, Rhythm'n'Blues, Country, Folk, Blues und – ja, ganz viel Trash bezeichnen. Das Ganze wurde auf einem 4-Track-Recorder aufgenommen, damit es schön weh tut. Das ist independent-Independent oder auch nicht. Nichts für weichgespülte Ohren und Hirne jedenfalls. „Wrestling Rock'n'Roll" ist ein Re-Release des Debüts von 1994 (incl. drei Bonustracks), für das die Welt damals wohl noch nicht reif war. Wer weiß ob sie es heute ist. Verdient hätte sie es auf jeden Fall. Igor Eberhard
FLIGHT 13 (D)
Das lange vergriffene Album aus dem Jahre 1994 nun endlich nachgepresst. Komplett primitiver Sicko/Trash-Rockabilly at its best. Da wird auf derbste, verzerrteste und krudeste Art auf die Instrumente eingedrescht, Typen wie Hasil Adkins wirken dagegen wie reinste Chorknaben, incl. "I Wanna Be Your Pussycat", "Hurt Me" und "Wrestling Rock´N´Roll" + 3 Bonustracks *Voodoo Rhythm |
