It was on a night in October in 1996 when THE FATAL FLYIN' GUILLOTEENS
opened for a touring DRAGS on their houston date. Having toured the country
a couple of times before this THE DRAGS had grown weary of local opening
acts because, quite frankly, a good majority of them sucked ass and nad.
This night was different. THE GUILLOTEENS churned out a one of a kind
performance that only they could and it left a baffled c.j. (guitarist,
vocalist of THE DRAGS) to come up to the band quickly afterward and declare,
"that was the most awesomely retarded thing i have seen in my life!" a few
months later the guilloteens found the hand jobs they were giving to club
owners pay off again when the secured the opening slot at a LORD HIGH FIXERS
gig. while the FFG'S were on stage a hyper impressed TIM KERR turned to his
guitarist/band mate andy wright and asked, "what the fuck do these guys
listen to?" Well now that the magic has died and the people they rip off has
become blatantly obvious, ESTRUS is proud to release the band's third 7" and
what do you know, producing this little gem is TIM KERR and C.J. of THE
DRAGS flew in from albuquerque to sit in on bass. The four songs contained
within are favorites of GUILLOTEEN fans across the nation and they even
shout some of these very song titles out at live performances when they are
not pelting the band with rocks and various objects. So, what do THE
GUILLOTEENS listen to, and in fact, what do they sound like one might ask.
Well while in studio legendary producer KERR made some lofty comparisons of
the GUILLOTEENS to bands of yesteryore saying they were, "the Gang of Four
of garage rock". Similar comments were made by c.j. when learning the songs
over the course of a weekend, "rockingly scientific". Scientific garage? Of
course the description of headchoppin' hardcore has been used in the past
and a couple of drunken, rowdy fans have described the sound as, "texas
death fuck blues," and still others simply say, "trash rock". SCIENTIFIC
TEXAS DEATH FUCK TRASH GARAGE BLUES will do.