Band With Shit Name Makes Swell Records Dept. - Garcia Peoples

Rare shot of Young People Today getting life by the nuts.

In Stephen Thomas Pencilneck's definitive Encyclopædia of Shit Band Names (Pompousass Press, 2021) Garcia Peoples get their own chapter. What could they have been thinking? Well about Jerry, I suppose, and how they were in some sense "his people". A mumbled remark that should have been immediately forgotten in the thick fog of bong smoke. But no. They're stuck with it, and so are we. Which is a shame. A damn shame.

Very little *finger-waggle* contemporary music avoids a quick slide into my trash bin. I freely admit this ain't my world any more, and young people, while being individually fine upstanding human beings, collectively know shit, and do less. But sometimes - through blind luck as much as anything else - they make music that grabs me by the hair in my ears. I had a real hurdle to jump with their name, which is still something I can barely bring myself to type, leave alone say out loud. But every time a track by them comes up on shuffle, it stops me in my shuffling tracks and I pay attention. Yes, their record collection is as clear to me as if I was doing the butt-crack crouch in front of it, but it's not only the Dead. And they do something special with their influences, more than just copying (wupes - channeling, referencing). They're inventive, lively, thoughtful, adroit, and just tuneful enough. Plus, they're a real guitar band, so yay. Here's a bunch of their stuff. Like, digsville!

Note: GP Foamfeatured© antecedently, but not as comprehensively, and anyway, youse bums probably missed it. I'd put money on it.