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Memphis Punks Ex-Cult Have Covered a Track By A 60s Hippie Band Who Were Fronted By a Wealthy Attorney

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As the name suggests The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band were a mid-60s Los Angeles act who specialised in experimental and psych music. Set up as a kind of Californian version of what Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground were developing on the east coast, it consisted of three teenagers (brothers Dan and Shaun Harris and their school mate Michael Lloyd), and a wealthy 30-something attorney called Bob Markley.

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The band released a number of albums and despite not achieving mainstream success during their existence, they have since garnered a cult like following.

Memphis punks Ex-Cult are one band who have discovered the charms of The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and covered the band’s “1906” . To appear on the b-side of Ex-Cult’s upcoming 7” on Famous Class, the songs takes the original version and spits out a more aggressive lo fi version with vocalist Chris Shaw snarling the lyrics

And with lyrics such as “Hear my master's ugly voice, See the teeth-marks on my leash, Only freaks know all the answers, I don't feel well” it’s a song that works as well in a Californian hippie commune in 1966 as it does a punk club in 2016.

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“Summer of Fear”/”1906” 7 inch will be available August 12 through Famous Class.