Brett Gurewitz - The Seeing Eye Gods - 05 - Happy

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The name of a "band" and a mini-album with 5 tracks which Brett released on Epitaph in 1985. All the lyrics were written by Brett. All the music was composed by Brett except for one song by Brett's friend John Bertini (who was his crack dealer). Brett sings all songs (and I suppose he plays all instruments too). Nobody else apart from Brett and John was involved in the making of the album (Brett wasn't speaking to the BR guys too much at the time). I wouldn't know how to describe it but I guess it's slow pop music with a psychedelic sensibility. It includes also a cover version of Matchstick Men, by Status Quo. It is a 12" picture disc (paisley vinyl actually). Two songs talk about the girl Brett was going out with back then, Suzy Shaw. They are Psychedelic Suzy and Strawberry Girl. It is really a very personal project, recorded, engineered and produced by Brett. Even the art direction is credited to Brett (to Billy Pilgrim actually, which was Brett's nickname for that particular project). That was when Brett had a distribution deal with a company called Sounds Good and according to Suzy Shaw they released about 1,000 copies. She has only one copy. I don't know how well it was distributed, but not even BR collectors knew about it until Suzy told me (Roger) and I told everyone, in 1998. Some punk collectors in Europe knew that it was written by Brett and that Suzy is "Psychedelic Suzy", as she got a few letters on the subject. This would seem to indicate at least some distribution. But Suzy herself had never come across anyone who had one until I found it. Jay Bentley does have a copy (actually, Hetson has Jay's copy since years ago) but Suzy didn't know.

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[NobodobodoN]

@MrMalarky1: It's doing it for me, too.

[MrMalarky1]

It would be nice if this fucker did'nt stop every 2 seconds...Think my computer is falkirked

[10forRP]

Wow... Fascinating stuff. Never knew about this project. Man the internet can do some wonderful things.

[bigtrippy]

who ceppy guy last year with an all seing eye taty toled me like the next 5 years of my life

[ZacksEnder]

He used to be addicted to cocaine and heroine in the early 90s. He left Epitaph for a short stint of time to undergo rehab.

[sultanfootball7050]

brett smokes crack??

[SmokingPope87]

crazy shit man thanx

[megenthal]

wow, this is obscenely rare.

[dongero]

I didn't even know this existed. Really good stuff, good find.

[Dimitrij90]

nice