The Zoo - Recordings

Available Recordings

Analogue Rawcorded onto a primitive Tascam Porta 1

"Teen Trash" 40 odd minutes of pure rock 'n' roll hell. Recorded in May '94 in Vic's room in Manchester for an album as part of Music Maniac Record's Teen Trash series. Knocked back for being "too raw"????? - this is garage after all. Have you heard Music Maniac's Sixties Rebellion series? What a pile of crap. Especially Vol. 5 - "The Cave", now this you'd expect to be a bit rockin' but it makes Gerry and The Pacemakers sound like the godamn Stooges. It's old squaredos like Mr Hans Kesteloo who insist on peddling crap like this in cool covers which give garage a bad name. You'd think he'd never heard of Teengenerate. Anyway like fools we went and re-recorded in a "real" studio, 16 track digital and it sounds like absolute shit - certainly getting on for lame enough to be included on Teen Trash. Cover by John Travis.

"A bit more than a demo, actually", BBC Radio Scotland's rave review.

"Psychedelic Nightmares" - the compilation. This has just about everything worth hearing which makes it surprising that there's actually as much as 90 minutes worth, it's no picnic either. It is basically the best of the "Bad Acid Baby" (1993) and "Teen Trash" tapes thrown in with some of the more bearable studio recordings. Also features "Swamp Thing" (as heard on some radio station which I can't remember the name of) from the Tombstones/Inner Mystique/Zoo transition. Is a bit lacking in the Tombstones department e.g. "Good Times" and earlier versions of "Eat The Moon", "My Baby Left Me (In A UFO)", "Davey Gnome's Suit", etc, but maybe we'll get round to compiling these one day. Who knows? Who really gives a shit?




A couple of early efforts from which anything worth hearing can be found on "Psychedelic Nightmares II"

Also, the worst recording of our worst song "Kylie Can't Dance" is on K.O.G.A. records' "Pop Goes The Weasel Vol.2".

Now available "Psychedelic Nightmares" and "Psychedelic Nightmares II" (Pre and Post Zoo Recordings)"


"I was blown away...it is GREAT...Psychedelic Ramones?" says the legendary Johnny del Rey

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