the seeing eye gods

our good friends b, c., & their son j., visited this evening.  we did our normal thing which was pizza at a local favorite pizzeria.  before we left j. said to me, 'my dad has an album for you.'

???

see, they have a little indie record store near their house.  they found the obscure, & wonderful, picture disc ep by the seeing eye gods.

who?

the seeing eye gods was a one-off paisley underground band by the owner of epitaph records & member of the punk band bad religion, brett gurewitz.  this ep is legendary in our circle.  released in 1985 we, my friends & i, knew very little about who was behind the music.  but we loved the picture disc & psychedelic sounds.  legend has it that gurewitz wrote, performed, produced & engineered the whole of the ep with some help from his drug dealer.

b. has had a copy of the ep for many years.  indeed, i had borrowed it in the early 2000s & recorded the music on cd.  however, there was very little information, even as recent as the early 2000s, about the story about the band & its music.

now, it is no secret as to the who, what & why of the band & the ep.  & the songs are very easy to find on the internet.  & yet, still, it is wonderful to have in my hands a copy of the original pressing of this fantastic ep.  very few of these records were produced.

but why yes, i do have a record player.  it is one of the relatively cheap deals that are sold at Target & Best Buy.  i still have a clutch of LPs too.  same for cassettes.  anna & i have dozens upon dozens of old cassettes.  we don't have a cassette player.

& yet, & yet, we live in the information age.  music is ever present in our lives.  even 34 year old records of obscure psy-rock.  behold, below is my favorite song off this ep.  plus in the description is a pretty good detailed history of this record.

thank you, b., for the lovely gift of music.

dig it