Jem Targal - Call Your Name

AWESOMENESS ALERT! Get the reissued cd here... http://obscureoxide.com/Jem_Targal.html

My Personal Favorite form the self released album Luckey Guy (1978)
Some info from the web...

http://www.shit-fi.com/Reviews/JemTar...

A Turkish-Leprechaun by birth, with a childhood fully immersed in music and art, Jem first made his mark as vocalist/bassist/main songwriter for the Detroit power-trio legends Third Power (Believe LP, Vanguard Records/1969). After the band drifted apart in 1972, a despondent Jem took up home recording, laying down hours of tape on a Teac 4-track. The best cuts were selected and Luckey Guy was self-released in 1978, with Jem pasting up the gatefold covers and handling all sales himself in true 'DIY' fashion. Never staying with one style too long, the album flits among spaced-out guitar ('Bumble Bee Drive'), tortured, dissonant piano ('Ring Out The Bells'), and a sparse, apocalyptic tale ('The Bomb Tune') with bits of childlike whimsy and Jem's eeeeeeerie harmonies woven throughout, and few cues to indicate its mid-'70s vintage. Were we to shamelessly namedrop we might mention Syd, Skip, Todd (solo), Brian Wilson and Gary Wilson as starting points...but we're above that....

It's now available on CD too! The master tapes were tracked down, miraculously still in storage at the original pressing plant. You get a mini-LP sleeve replica of the original album jacket, plus an insert booklet with liner notes and newly-transcribed lyrics handwritten by Jem!! People you neeed this! It really isTHAT awesome! :D

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[the1whoknows1]

Hey Jem.. Whats up dude? This is Alright. My X Barb still has the original Jungle Bird T shirt you gave me in ‘92. I wan't one of those kickin pigmi's

[nintzelj]

I heard that the title track and Ring Out The Bells were the coolest tracks; would you mind loading them so I can check them out? Thanks!

[wzjpkp]

lordy i remember this..