"Crammed front to back with the band's signature mix of wild-eyed garage-rock and desperatly doomed-folk ballads, the 10-track release is generally considered a high point in the Dead Moon catalog. "Pflichtstoff," declared the long-running German music magazine Ox-Fanzine in 1996. Translation: "A must-have." Not that bassist Toody Cole remembers making it... "Oh god, it was probably another rush job, because we always used to have to get everything done before the next tour," she said from her home in Clackamas, Oregon."
"Indeed, while Dead Moon left behind a string of cult albums during its two-decade run, they were revered far and wide- especially in Europe -for their ferocious live shows, a ternary attack comprising Toody's earth-altering bass lines, the steady pummel of drummer Andrew Loomis (who died in 2016), and the searing guitar work of Toody's husband, Fred Cole, who died in 2017, nearly five months after the couple's 50th anniversary."
Nervous Sooner Changes, the seventh studio album by Dead Moon, is celebrated for ten tracks of wild garage-rock and desperately doomed-folk and is often cited as a high point. Toody Cole recalled the recording as likely a rush job completed between tours, with songs that blended into one another but energized live shows. The band's live reputation was forged by Toody's heavy bass, Andrew Loomis's steady drumming, and Fred Cole's searing guitar. Andrew Loomis died in 2016 and Fred Cole died in 2017. Toody has honored Fred by performing live and curating annual birthday celebrations that include tribute and garage-rock acts.
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