Frenzid Melon

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Frenzid Melon were a d.i.y. bedroom punk/post punk/ experimental band that existed from 1977 - 1981. During that time they released 7 diy cassette albums and one cassette single. The founder members and constant nuclei were Peter Ashby and Barry Lamb (except for a brief period during "The Great Roll and Butter Swindle" where Ashby disappered whilst the band enjoyed the most populous list of members it ever had). Throughout the years the group's personnel was enhanced by various friends and/or local musicians (or just people hanging around whilst recording was in progress) who made varying contributions ranging from the very slight to the fairly significant. Their eponymous debut cassette opened with the seminal "Piss off" which became a highly regarded classic and set the tone for much of what was to follow. The early tapes were recorded on mono cassette recorders and duplicated in Heath Robinson fashion by connecting two recorders with a 5 pin din and duplicating in realtime. And recordings thereafter were cobbled together on all manner of different cassettes and combinations thereof. Despite the archaic equipment and labour intensive methods, they often experimented with multi-tracking and even created primitive effects through the manipulation of tape. Ashby & Lamb's musical connection emerged in 1974 as they found themselves in the same class at secondary school. Along with albums from the more popular rock groups Ashby had grown up with psychedelia, underground roc

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