The Gizmos
The Gizmos were a proto-punk band that formed in
Bloomington, Indiana in
1975. Both leading members, Eddie Flowers and
Rich Coffee would move to Los Angeles in the late
1970s and become
active in the
post-punk, underground rock scene there. Flowers would
start Crawlspace with ex-members of the Lazy Cowgirls in 1985,
starting out in a
punk rock vein but increasingly growing more
experimental as time went on. By the early 1990s Crawlspace's music
was free improvisation inspired by
John Cage and
Derek Bailey.
Coffee sang and played in Thee Fourgiven and
The Tommyknockers,
influenced by late
1960s pre-punk
hard rock bands like the
MC5 and
The Doors as well as more recent acts like
The Cramps,The Gun Club,
and
Billy Childish The bands of both Coffee and Flowers were
associated with the
Sympathy for the Record Industry record label.
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