2000 Great Songs #1265: Psychedelic Suzy
There's obscure, and then there's obscure . The Seeing Eye Gods were a one-off home recording project from Brett Gurewitz, an on-again/off-again member of punk band Bad Religion and the founder of the Epitaph indie label. Their 1985 5-song EP was a lo-fi project, Gurewitz (under the Vonnegut-derived handle of Billy Pilgrim) playing retro-psychedelic songs over a primitive drum machine. Yet it was catchy and fun (the four originals bolstered by a laid-back cover of Status Quo 's " Pictures Of Matchstick Men "). "Psychedelic Suzy" mirrored the sound of Paisley Underground acts like Rain Parade and the Things , a bare but hypnotic tune that could've been a 1968 obscurity unearthed for a low-budget Nuggets -styled compilation (drum machine aside). Unfortunately, it's all but mythical at this point--the original vinyl EP (a gaudy pink & green picture disc) was issued in limited numbers (we were lucky to get one at the college station, where I p...
