Screaming Lord Sutch

Screaming Lord Sutch（嚎叫的上帝萨克）是六十年代早期最“硬”的摇滚。尽管硬摇这种曲风在当时尚未于英伦三岛出现，但这乐队却是只不折不扣的硬摇滚乐队。萨克在六十年代早期的单曲（大部分录制于“甲壳虫”的处女专辑之后）里虽然几乎没有可称经典的，但这些歌对之后的“不列颠入侵”造成了精神上的影响。他的乐队还为一些英国摇滚乐中坚乐队提供了学习的样板。 by Richie Unterberger He couldn't properly be considered part of the British Invasion -- he never had a hit in the U.S. or the U.K. -- but Screaming Lord Sutch laid some unheralded groundwork for the phenomenon. With a rock & horror act based to a large degree on Screamin' Jay Hawkins, David "Lord" Sutch was one of the first genuine rock & roll longhairs, and his bands employed such sterling instrumentalists as Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore, Nicky Hopkins, and Mitch Mitchell before they became famous. His early-'60s singles -- mostly over-the-top Halloween novelties or covers of early rock and R&B standards -- are genuinely energetic and fun performances that rank among the few out-and-out raunchy rock & roll records waxed in Britain before the ascension of the Beatles. Twiddling the knobs on his first five singles was the legendarily eccentric Joe Meek, who embellished Sutch's modest talents with his usual grab bag of treated instruments, compression, and odd effects. While he holds a position of undeniable importance in the history of British rock, Sutch was not a talented singer or musician, and the records he made after the mid-'60s were pretty lame despite the presence of some stars who remembered him fondly (and had even sometimes played in his band in the old days). A well-known public figure in Britain, he ran for Parliament several times in the '60s, representing the National Teenage Party, and he founded the pirate radio station Radio Sutch in 1964. He published his autobiography in the early '90s.