The very first song was “The book”.
It was fine, but what really hooked me (I believe a couple of months later)
is when @madmojo woke me up to show me the video for People Vultures.
From there to Gamma Knife/People Vultures and onwards to all 2017 albums and we’ve been fans ever since \o/
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Since I follow them from the very beginning, it should have been Elbow from 12 bar bruise. Still like that album.
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I’ve told this story to my friends quite often but I first heard of Gizz around 2017, that year I listened to Nonagon and I’ll fully admit I was not mature enough to kick the neo-prog stigma I held at the time. (even though Gizz was just barely entering their prog experiments that year) It wasn’t until 2020 where I off-the-cuff had I’m in Your Mind Fuzz downloaded during a road trip. As a big fan of krautrock (my favorite band is CAN) you can expect that it was the one of the only things I listened to on that whole trip and I have never fallen out of love with it or the band since.
My near miss with the band is very lame. I really liked Fishing for Fishies the song and the music video on first listen shortly after it was released. But when I realized it was anti-fishing, I kinda jokingly said I didn’t like it anymore. (I’m just way into fly fishing, not a commercial fisherman or anything.) While friends around me were getting whipped into a Gizz frenzy, I was saying, “Nah, they’re anti-fishing; I can’t support that.” Foolish!
That said, I was still curious. I bought their Live in Adelaide '19 album to support Australians experiencing the wildfires, but it just didn’t grab me. I was never into metal and those opening tracks couldn’t get through my thick head. I tried that album and others a few times over the years, but it really wasn’t until I saw footage from Bonnaroo '22 that my mind truly opened to them. Stu’s energy in the opening Robot Stop>Hot Water finally did it. Then, Gizztober came and my obsession hasn’t let up since.
Haha you must be the first person who was turned away by the environmental message but then came back on it.
hard agree, FFF and so many of the tracks on it are just so catchy!! boogieman sam, cyboogie, FFF are big highlights in their discog for me.
The double release with Rat’s nest was also a fun time, because I bought tickets to see them for the first time after they released this, so all the way up to the concert (Brussels '19) I was getting hyped for some groovy boogie tunes… and then bam they go and release a metal album weeks before. Superbug was fucking sick to hear
I saw them in Australia around this time too, underrated aspect of those recordings is how heavy they played the FFF songs. Didn’t play the closest attention to the setup, but it seemed they didn’t change up the guitar tones at all so they still had that face-melting energy.
Would still love to hear the title track pop up in an acoustic set one day though.