Hindu Love Gods
| Hindu Love Gods | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Blues rock |
| founding | 1984 |
| resolution | 1990 |
| Founding members | |
| Bryan Cook (1984) | |
| Peter Buck | |
| Mike Mills | |
| Bill Berry | |
| Last occupation | |
| Warren Zevon (1990) | |
| Peter Buck | |
| Mike Mills | |
| Bill Berry | |
The Hindu Love Gods were an American blues rock band that was founded in Athens (Georgia) in 1984 by the three instrumentalists of the rock band REM Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass) and Bill Berry (drums) and singer Bryan Cook. In 1990 Warren Zevon replaced Cook as singer.
With this line-up with Bryan Cook, the band released the little-noticed single Narrator in 1984 , which also contained the Easybeats cover Gonna Have A Good Time Tonight . Stylistically, this single was reminiscent of the Merseybeat .
In 1987, the band's only album (excluding Bryan Cook) was recorded when the recording of Warren Zevon's album Sentimental Hygiene was finished with a few hours of studio time. During a jam session, the musicians recorded ten cover songs - almost exclusively blues pieces - that were not originally planned for release. The session was released in 1990 as an album called Hindu Love Gods . It peaked at number 168 on the Billboard 200 chart , with the 1985 cover version of Prince's classic Raspberry Beret reaching number 23 on the Modern Rock Tracks radio chart.
Discography
- 1984: Narrator (single)
- 1990: Hindu Love Gods (album)
Web links
- Rolling Stone: Hindu Love Gods (engl.)
- RAREBIRD'S Spotlight Album Review: Hindu Love Gods ( Memento from February 19, 2008 on the Internet Archive )