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Crazysane
6+ albums
garage-folkfolkCosmic garage-folk
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"Crazysane is a four-piece cosmic garage-folk band from Stockport, England. The members are Johnny Angelsnake on lead vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar and songs, Dave Grimwizard on guitar and backing vocals, Chris Zardoz on bass and Dave Gonzales on drums and backing vocals. This line-up has existed for three years or so but originally Crazysane was a three-piece comprising the current members minus Zardoz on bass. However, in the mid-nineties Chris Zardoz was part of a three-piece line-up with Angelsnake and Grimwizard known as The Infernals. Eventually Zardoz was replaced by Paul Cantrell on bass and Chris Young added on drums. This line-up continued as The Infernals for a while before Young objected to what he perceived as the "evil-sounding name"(lack of William Blake study)and the band was re-christened Edenclan after one of Angelsnake's songs. When Edenclan's mission to "raise men's perceptions to the infinite"(Blake) was complete, Angelsnake and Grimwizard re-invented themselves as cosmic jokers Crazysane and enlisted wildman drummer Gonzales who had played in the final incarnation of Edenclan after Young had taken enough of the evil, sold his drum-kit and gone back to his lucrative working-men's club dj-ing. Gonzales put away the cage that had surrounded his big drum-kit and adopted a smaller "busking-kit" which he continues to use with Crazysane and from which he draws a surprisingly big but exhilaratingly lean sound. To go back further-"back to the source"-the ori
