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In
the meantime the three Dog Of Mystery
/ Airport 75 / Monster
Magnet members also featured in a wide variety of local
bands, side projects, solo efforts and total lunacy such as Uncle
Homegrown / Thee Smoking Pets
/ The Golden Nehru Flamethrowers
/ Triple Bad Acid / Acid
Reich / Chigger / King
Fuzz / Love Monster etc.
None of these projects ever led to any officially recorded
material except for self released demo tapes but Dave
Wyndorf’s solo effort Love Monster which was a collection of
his experiments on 4 track somehow saw the light of day as a
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they kept on using the names Dog Of Mystery / Airport 75 and
Monster Magnet all at the same time time but after a show at
City Gardens in Trenton where they supported LA junkies
Jane’s Addiction, they decided that if they wanted to get
serious they needed to chose a name and stick with it.
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So basically
the constantly changing parade of weirdo’s ended up as a three
piece called Monster Magnet existing of two rather brilliant
chemists Tim Cronin and John
McBain and a gifted half alien / half human Dave
Wyndorf, who at the time ran a comic book store in Red Bank
NJ. The comic book store was in fact a cover up for his more interplanetary
activities and Dave was about to show the world what he learned during
his time in a spaceship faraway in another galaxy. John and Tim
went out of circulation for a while after Dave implanted their
galactic frequency devices but as expected they recovered pretty
fast. After spending most nights sitting in the backyard watching
out for spaceships it didn’t take them to long before they
realized they would be stuck on planet earth for eternity so Monster
Magnet decided they could as well spend their time doing
something useful. Passing on information to the mothership only
took a couple of hours a day so there was plenty of time left to
fuck things up.
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The earlier
mentioned tape “Forget about life, I’m
high on dope” recorded as a three piece, was circulating
amongst wannabe freaks all along the Jersey shores for quite a bit
so it became time to move on towards a higher level. Eventually
the tape became an official Cool Beans
release and the record stores, where both Tim Cronin and John
McBain worked undercover, carried it. Although Tim Cronin’s
brainchild Cool Beans, a highly acclaimed Jersey underground label
(which released tapes featuring a wide variety of local insanity on
regular basis), did a great job, the guys pretty soon found out
most of the tapes kept on being distributed within the same
circle of already converted space heads so they decided to release
two songs on vinyl 7” through Circuit
Records. Lizard Johnny / FreakShop
USA featured a transformed Dave Wyndorf on the sleeve
sending out vibes to the mothership. Vibes which only became
visible after smoking a good amount of substances retracted from
plants growing on planet Galactus. Needles to say it took an
extremely advanced outer space camera to immortalize this
particular scene, a device which had to be flown in by an
exploration shuttle coming straight from the mothership. Both
songs were taken straight from tape without re-recording,
remixing, overdubbing what so ever. Everything already sounded
perfect, at least for the purposes they had in mind … finding
and converting more suitable freaks to expand their earthly colony
in order to set up a solid base for the Galactians who did the
math and came to the conclusion that their planet was about to
collide with a pissed off gigantic meteor around 2010. Of course
at the time the event still lay more than 20 years ahead but as
things were moving rather slow in Monster Magnet land it was about
time something got done.
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