Musical styles in order of appearance are punk, reggae with a touch of mariachi, old school hardcore when it wasn’t old school with a touch of eastern dissonance, 70s style funk, classic rock when it wasn’t classic drenched in Neil Young guitar strangulation, country with a touch of spoken word, and Gregorian chant with no detectable intelligible actual words.

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• Don’t Wanna Be No Gumby
• Mission To Mexico
• Johnny’s In A Cult
• Peabody Went To High School
• Movies About Jesus
• Last Of The Nubs
• The Monastery

Here’s the glorious 20th anniversary reposting of the six-minute garage noise grunge-out that is Movies About Jesus, which Al Valdes and I recorded on Portastudio in 1987. Have fun with this because I just got a flood of freelance and won’t be around too much in the next few days.

PLAYERS:
Al Valdes: guitar R, drums
Julio Rey: guitar L, bass, vocals

The music was squarely based on “T-Bone” by Neil Young and Crazy Horse (from their 1981 proto-grunge masterpiece re-ac-tor). Three bluesy chords and a lot of cat-strangling out-of-control guitar solos. I’m on the left channel and Al is on the right. The lyrics are from back when I thought making movies about Jesus amounted to making graven images of Jesus. See how many Jesus movie references you can pick out. I’ve been performing this song solo at recent open mics. I improvised a couple of new lines bringing the song up to date. (06.07.05)

Jeffrey Hunter hasn’t resurrected yet
The guy in Lake Wales walks off the set
Afro Superman is living day by day
Hippie superstar has gone the black hole way

I don’t want to see His face down here
I don’t want to see His face not yet
I don’t want to see His face in my brain
Movies about Jesus

Three weeks ago He looked like Zappa
Church slide show, He looked like my friend
English miniseries tried to show Him flying
Brian left my crying

I don’t want to see His face until He shows it to me
Blessed is he who has believed without seeing