Name: Haemophiliac Heroes
Duration: 5 min 15 s
Channel: Cochrane/Mizzi/Loyacano/Steele
Description: "Haemophiliac Heroes" is a song by Pygmy Beat. Another Pygmy Beat Augmented collaboration. Part prog, part psychedelic part I don't know what.

Haemophiliac Heroes

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Another Pygmy Beat Augmented collaboration. Part prog, part psychedelic part I don't know what.

prog flute cello psychedelic banjo political mandolin sax rock folk pygmy beat

Pygmy Beat

Folk rock meets blues rock whilst occassionally veering into psychedelic and prog rock.

Pygmy Beat: Terry Berman - vocals, sax, piano, flute, recorder & Catholic guilt; ray cochrane - basses, guitars, bad cello, percussion & Protestant longing; Roland - drums, percussion & digital watches; RAMI - occasional drums; Gerry Steele - frequent lead guitar solos; Greg Loyacano - frequent recent drums Pygmy Beat Augmented: Joe Mizzi - recent vocals Gerry Steele - lead guitar solos; Greg Loyacano - drums ray cochrane - basses, guitars, bad cello, percussion; Pygmy Beat Extended: Patricia Vogelenzang - vocals Erik - Drums & Percussion; Greg Loyacano - Drums & some guitars; Gerry Steele - most lead guitar solos; ray cochrane - basses, guitars, bad cello, percussion; Rob Green - vocals & lead - Listen Like Brian; Trudy Newell - vocals; Casey Wells - vocals. Miriam & I: Miriam Webb - vocals, arrangements & good cello. ray cochrane - bass, guitar, bad cello, percussion & arrangements. Roland - hand punched programmed drums. The Newlings: Eric Drabwell - vocals, guitars ray cochrane - bass, guitars, cello Bandi - drums

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Psychedelic Rock

Charts

Peak #348

Peak in subgenre #10

Author

Cochrane/Mizzi/Loyacano/Steele

Rights

Cochrane/Mizzi/Loyacano/Steele

Uploaded

August 13, 2011

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.8 MB • 128 kbps • 5:15

Story behind the song

Lyrics written in about 1977. Music in 2009 and the melody in 2011.
Gerry Steele (of the Hamilton Steele Band) play the wonderful lead guitar, Greg Loyacano (Gregor the Terror) is the maestro percussionist & Joe Mizzi (of the superb Joe Mizzi as well as Angels Fall) wrote the melody & did all vocals. The players recorded themselves and sent their parts via the internet.

Lyrics

Haemophiliac Heroes			

Plastic sheets of moonlight			
Reflected in cracked glass eyes		
Neon illuminates suicides			
Who had never learnt to fly.			

Time bombs flock to Sunday schools		
With their leather bridle eyes			
Where carrion feast on stale thoughts		   		
Fattened on open lies.				


Hidden, luminous, backstreet warriors, 	
metamorphosed denizens of the deep,	
Reduced pseudo-Casanova rapists,		
Through lost innocence they creep.		

	
And they, finding Lady Love			 
In the form of a young girl			
Unleash a thousand lost fantasies		
Almost none of which unfurl.			

Cellophane-clad merchandise			
Again tread the beaten path					
& where new Freedom’s vanquished moments 		
Sail winds of the aftermath.			

CHORUS TWO
But multilingual electric deathcries		
Simply shatter their perspex minds		
& yet again their testament is sworn 		
Across a thousand neon signs.			
VERSE THREE
All too soon the collector			
Undertakes his evening rounds			
Charged to extract the final payment		
Be it cash or flesh by pounds.			

Phosphorescent plastic daydreams		
Now crowd into the cell								
Switchblade waving gladiators			
 In horror turn to gel.				




And the lying, crying, moulded dollies		
Who would once strut and dance and pose		
Just a short step from teenage rubber queen	
To a middle-aged rubber hose.				

Hidden, luminous, backstreet warriors, 	
metamorphosed denizens of the deep,

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