Comeoutwithyourhandsup

Femfatal

Astral Plane

Billy Blaze and Christopher Byrd 2009,  37th Street Phoenix, AZ

Jet2thesun2

Some stuff I just found recorded back around 2011

Chromegenerator - 1 11 16, 4.14 PM

2011 Rudy Rivera, Chris Byrd, Jennifer Taylor

SeaTurnsRed - 1 11 16, 5.45 PM

Byrd and Tise team up for some drum and guitar work circa 2007

Howard3

Zombies

I wrote this song at Yoga Witch band practice at 2225 East Windsor Ave, describing the experience of living in the hood.

Loaded

Originally written and published on acoustic, here is an electric version out of Full Well Recording Studio in Phoenix, AZ.

Kung Fu Fighting on the Astral Plane

Chris Byrd, Steve Ady, Manu Aube, Dave Plagman and Ron Bennett from Phoenix Arizona


Greeting from YogaWitch.  I played guitar in Eddy's band and give Eddy much credit for getting me out and playing on a weekly basis for my formitive years as a stage musician.  Eddy is also the influencing factor that lead to catagorizing our music as Folk/Goth/Post Punk.  Doug Clark from Mighty Sphincter introduced me to Eddy back around 1990 when he had a folk coffee house called the Grotto.  We would go see folk bands there and hang out with Eddy as he performed his day job of reading Tarot cards over the Dione Fortune Psychic Line.  The time I spent watching Eddy do his job combined with years of study eventually allowed me some basic ability to perform the same task for a spell whilst residing in Tacoma Washington circa 1994.  Quickly the determination was made that reading cards over the phone to strangers wasn't my cup of tea.  I still value the study of Tarot cards as espoused by such organizations as BOTA, which thus far has taught me that I actually know a lot less about Tarot than I ever suspected.  Eddy is about 62 I reckon and has had a very persistent musical career spanning since his teen years.  He spent 4 years as a London street musician during 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1973.  Upon returning to the States he located himself in Hollywood and found himself playing next to the GoGo's.  Eddy says Belinda Carlyle is a Witch and belonged to a popular coven in Los Angeles at that time.  Eddy soon found himself hanging with Darby Crash et al of the Germs and El Duche of the Mentors, as well as Denny Dority of the Mamas and Papas.  Eddy released his first 7" record during 1977 and finding a copy of this rare recording isn't easy.  He played at the original punk club in LA The Mask on November 1977.  His first single was called You Burn Me Out.  You can hear the song on a YouTube video of Eddy's performance at the Starwood on March 1978.  The band back then was called Eddy Detroit and the Liquid Gang, complete with contortionist Johnny Duffy who played the Demon in Eddy's track Pazuzu from his vinyl recording from 1982 titled Immortal Gods which is now considered a cult classic and hosted such notable performers as Dan and Mary Clark from the Feederz and Victory Acres, as well as Allen Bishop and Charlie Goche' of the Sun City Girls.  The record has been released on three different record labels since it's release and has sold over 5000 copies.  Eddy has resided in Phoenix since 1981 and has released a total of 6 vinyl records and 7 CD's.  Philosophers Journey was released in 1987,  1997 Jungle Captive, 2007 Lost in a Silent Movie,  2009 Ghetto Cafe, 2010 Street of Dreams, Vagabond came out in 2012, also 2012 saw the release of Eddy Detroit meets the Sun City Girls on a 45 Vinyl by Revolver Records.  Additionally there were two EP's released on Majora records on vinyl.  They were 1995 Electronic version of Mephisto Cigars and Pig Symphony with the Sun City Girls as a complete band.  Eddy thinks in collage form ever since the late 60's and his lyrics are derived from personal tragedies and he likes to use humor to color tragedy and tragedy to color humor.  "Kind of Like Shakespeare."  Eddy says in conclusion that the Vagabond CD sums up his life and he has now said everything that he wanted to say and doesn't plan to release anymore records hence forth.  A remarkable musician and mentor.  I've always appreciated the pleasant demeanor of Eddy Detroit.  He has taught me a lot about the dedication required to maintain the professional aesthetics of a musician that takes his craft seriously.

YogaWitch

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