King Khan & the Shrines play "Shivers Down My Spine" live in Seattle at Neumos on Live Eye Tv... Soul-acid revivalist King Khan is the man with the big bag of tricks and if you're hurting, loaded or losing your mind, he's got just the fix! Like some angel dusted James Brown from outer space, Khan dishes up the sexual chocolate like it was a holy sacrament in his Church of Psychedelic Eroticism! The King Khan story begins in the frigid teenage wasteland that was Montreal of last century, oh say 1995 or so, when a couple down and out punks took refuge in an old flying saucer they found in someone's garage. Thus was born the Spaceshits, a Gun Club x The Sonics revival of all things garage, with doses of a ragged, punk rock Soul thrown in to belie the band's young age. Khan, then eighteen, born in Montreal but of Indian heritage, was playing bass and performing under the name Blacksnake. The Spaceshits began writing songs after recruiting Powersquats' Mark Sultan (Les Sexareenos! , BBQ, etc.), and would be soon joined by Blacksnake on bass. The band became known for short, unruley shows that finally resulted in the Spaceshits being banned from a number of Montreal venues. Short-lived but powerful, the band would go onto tour Europe, before Blacksnakes permanent stop in Berlin would prove too much for the band to continue. The Spaceshits broke up upon return from Europe with members like Mark Sultan continuing to play in a bunch of bands as well as solo under the name BBQ. In ...
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