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Shindig! #167 – The Heard
With ‘Exit 9’, their none-more-garage blast of recorded greatness, east Texan garage band THE HEARD left their mark on the world, one that continues to reverberate 60 years later.
CHAIM O’BRIEN-BLUMENTHAL hears about police busts, electric shocks and flushing toilets from guitarist Andy Clendenen
Fresh sounds and styles were in the air, and even psychedelia couldn’t escape east Texas. “We all loved The 13th Floor Elevators and ‘You’re Gonna’ Miss Me’. It got a lot of play on the radio and Roky Erickson was big. But it was pretty strange stuff, the way they’d play the jug, the amplification. Very different. I remember playing The Catacombs and they had this room: it was like going into a cave. With different coloured wax all over the place. They called it the psychedelic room.”
Perhaps it was the new directions in music that inspired The Heard to start writing their own material. Andy and his brother teamed up to pen a song: Andy writing the lyrics and melody, and Ned coming up with the guitar part. The result was the now classic ‘Exit 9’. As captured on The Heard’s lone single, it’s a sonic blast of brilliance, that’s still reverberating all these years later, thanks to fandom from garage heads and covers from bands like The Chesterfield Kings. How did it come about? “We recorded it in Robin Hood Brians studio, in Tyler. Basically, a home studio. He was classically trained, and
With ‘Exit 9’, their none-more-garage blast of recorded greatness, east Texan garage band THE HEARD left their mark on the world, one that continues to reverberate 60 years later.
CHAIM O’BRIEN-BLUMENTHAL hears about police busts, electric shocks and flushing toilets from guitarist Andy Clendenen
Fresh sounds and styles were in the air, and even psychedelia couldn’t escape east Texas. “We all loved The 13th Floor Elevators and ‘You’re Gonna’ Miss Me’. It got a lot of play on the radio and Roky Erickson was big. But it was pretty strange stuff, the way they’d play the jug, the amplification. Very different. I remember playing The Catacombs and they had this room: it was like going into a cave. With different coloured wax all over the place. They called it the psychedelic room.”
Perhaps it was the new directions in music that inspired The Heard to start writing their own material. Andy and his brother teamed up to pen a song: Andy writing the lyrics and melody, and Ned coming up with the guitar part. The result was the now classic ‘Exit 9’. As captured on The Heard’s lone single, it’s a sonic blast of brilliance, that’s still reverberating all these years later, thanks to fandom from garage heads and covers from bands like The Chesterfield Kings. How did it come about? “We recorded it in Robin Hood Brians studio, in Tyler. Basically, a home studio. He was classically trained, and
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