Foxycock - Live Performance Review.
Hi. I'm Steven Soderquist....a writer and reporter for Rolling Stones magazine.
Not many bands can open their set with a mock satanic sacrifice, complete with goat hooves, black candles, ancient Babylonian math diagrams and pictures of Laura Bush and still manage not to upset the audience enough to just get up and leave after the first song. Foxycock is such a band.
Foxycock!!!
You just have to say it out loud when you hear it. Foxycock!!! It's almost a curse word. Women giggle when they say it. Foxycock!!! Old people raise their eyebrows as if they're are saying a curse word they know they don't understand, but still somehow know in their gut it is naughty and vile and corrupting to their souls. (The gamut of human emotion is seen when one encounters this word.....FOXYCOCK!!! )
What does it mean? FOXYCOCK!!! It's definitely irreverent, satirical, political, and forceful... yet offensive lyrics like...
"Have you ever been trapped in the cold eyed stare of Laura Bush?
It's like looking into the eyes of a Chinese man... in bread Chinese devil man
4 more years of choking on the devils cock....
4 more years of choking on the devils cock....
George Bush is choking on the devils cock....
...........Choking on the devils cock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
....... are wrapped in a velvety smooth, jazzy, bossa nova candy coating that melts in your veritable mouth. A two man revolution, Foxycock are frequently compared with such comedy acts as Ween and Tenacious D, but they themselves point out...
"Fuck those bands... what about the Smothers Brothers you fucking idiot... they started musical comedy... or rather... just reinvented and ripped off some other musical acts before them and were fortunate enough to be the first act of that nature and category (to be) captured on Television......... don't compare our music to anything you stupid earthling...assholes....(do you wanna buy a CD or get on our mailing list?)"
I was in Los Angeles last week, April 23rd to the 29th reviewing bands for Rolling Stone when a friend told me about this band Foxycock. Their last show was at (of all places) the Masonic temple on the corner of North Vermont and Selma in Hollywood, California. They opened up their set with this mock satanic ritual in front of a large plaster of paris owl ...a direct reference to the owl Satanist prey and sacrifice to at Bohemian Groove by the name of "Molech". Complete with a space music theme... and druid like choreography, Foxycock stunned the audience with a two-part harmony satanic mantra to begin their show. Manishevitz wine in tiny silver goblets were passed around the crowd and all were encouraged to drink the blood of the almighty... and the audience was also alerted to the crudite stations to the right and left of the band... with a liquid chocolate fountain and seasonal berries bar near the sound booth. They also served warm pitas and Armenian appetizers during the course of their 45-minute set.
The next few songs ranged in themes from alien abduction/probing/rapings and reptilian government leaders to the ridiculousness of scientology and Britney Spears media saturation to global domination by the UN and UNESCO...and beyond.
They took a thirty second intermission... changed outfits.... hairstyles.... accessories and went into a mock pro Iraq war country song that had the house on their feet (and line dancing like patriotic idiots). Complete with a tiny whip and a fake horse head on a stick, the singer Joshua Murphy rode around the stage and went wild. Guitarist Doug Smolens' ridiculous leather chaps and tiny cowboy hat were a satirical hit in a post Brokeback Mountain nation... Foxycock brought the house to its knees with laughter and hand clapping country bullshit.
Transitioning straight into a samba based jazzy number for their next song about high speed DSL entitled "internet porn," Foxycock hit it with the repetitive lyrical hook of....
"Click on the link of the lesbians licking their pussies pink"
Foxycock go further than just excellent comedy... they can actually write catchy, rhythmically complex, intensely melodic, multi harmonic music that is far out of the usual mold. It simply put, blew my mind!!!!!
Taking on everything controversial and important, what matters most, Foxycock are sure to be targeted by the secret service if they keep this shit up! With their mock enthusiasm for bullshit American foreign policy, their blatant slaps in the face to Christianity, perverted humor taken to the Nth level, alien molestation songs, Persian and Asian pussy fixations and more impending foreign oil wars with Iran and China possibly next... Foxycock are digging a grave for themselves.... and heading straight to hell. (I'm coming along for the ride!)
Warning: not suitable for children, conservative Christians, north Americans (who drive SUV's), people with sticks up their asses(in general), republicansand reptilians. Peace. Out!