JOHN BAKER PROFILE
John Baker, big blonde vocalist for garage popsters the Psycho Daizies, recently achieved even greater notoriety as the compiler of Wild Things, the NZ 60s garage rock album released by Flying Nun last year. Now he’s starting work on a book on NZ 60s garage bnads and he has two more 60s compilations in the pipeline. He'd also like to do a NZ 50s compilation and a 1977 NZ punk rock retrospective. What a busy boy. Between answering correspondence from record collectors in the USA and Europe
and rescuing rattlin’ masterpieces from garages the length and breadth of the country, when does he have time to be a Psycho Daizy? InMarchand April, whenthe Daizies embark on an awesome national tour — 34 shows in 28 days. : TOP FIVE ALBUMS Antiseen Honour Amongst ~ Thieves; Raw hardcore shit nastiness. Girl Trouble Thrillsphere; 50s sleaze meets 60s grunge and they write back cool letters.
Hard Ons Yummy; party album of 1991. Loxene Golden Disc 1972; 99 percent is utter shit, but totally worth it for ‘Come To The Sabbat’ by Timberjack. Dead Moon by Dead Moon; Fred Cole garaged out in the 60s and still doing it. SEMINAL INFLUENCE My father into my mother. FINEST HOUR Running through Dux De Lux restaurantin Christchurch - wearing only one sock. DREAM CONCERT Black Sabbath in New Zealand in 1973. DEFINITION OF PSYCHO The guy that rammed the Psycho Daizies while they were playing — on his Vespa! HOBBY HORSE [ want people to know about NZ's ‘unknown freaks of rock ‘n’ roll, — like the Big O, Marty Sauce, Reno Tehei and lots more. CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANDING TOOL Bob Frisbee (ha! ha!) the man with the communicating hands. UNSUNG HEROES OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
The Bluestars, the Axel Grinders and me!!
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Rip It Up, Issue 175, 1 February 1992, Page 16
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