DENIZ TEK & The GOLDEN BREED (GODOY TWINS) ROCK LONG BEACH!

Powerful punk threesome DENIZ TEK & The Golden Breed (Deniz: guitar, vocals; Art Godoy: bass, vocals; Steve Godoy: drums, vocals) rocked The Blue Cafe, Long Beach, Calif. to the bone a week ago on April 27th.

Deniz Tek performances have proved stronger than ever since his participation with Iggy and The Stooges at the Tribute to Ron Asheton a year ago in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Once famed for his work in seminal 1970s Australian punk band Radio Birdman to whom he brought his native Detroit-style hard-coreness on guitar (and for other rather significant accomplishments,*) Tek has found his perfect partners in crime with the rhythm section of identical twins Art and Steve Godoy. They cook live!

Standouts in their punk canon (see set list below) were "Hand Of Law" and "Working Man," forcefully wailed, played with super-intensity. Long Beach punk afficianados were duly impressed to see the real deal in action! The Godoys (formerly of SoCal's The Exploding Fuckdolls) have worked with Tek on and off since 1994.

The Godoy twins also share notoriety in the professional skateboarding and tattoo artistry worlds. I was told a poignant anecdote by them about their ink work for cancer survivors who underwent mastectomies. The Godoys tattoo trompe l'oeil nipples and surrounding colors for these patients who couldn't afford complete plastic surgery reconstructions. If you've ever seen their famous photo-realism LINK that's just as expert as their more tat-trad wildstyle work, you well can imagine how happy these patients were with the results. Hearing that, I like these
guys even more.

  
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My stalwart co-adventurers were Jimmy Recca (bassist: the Ron Asheton/Machine Gun Thompson New Order, the Mach 1971 Stooges) and Paraphilia Magazine co-editor Dire McCain, seen above flanking Deniz Tek. Jimmy previously had graced my photo session (LINK) with Deniz and the Godoys when the band name was Last of the Badmen (session overtures arranged by Retrokimmer LINK.) Dire is pictured below happily
sandwiched betwixt twins Art and Steve Godoy.

Left, Dire and Jimmy
stroll the noir streets
of Long Beach; right,
worthy photographer
Anne Laurent
(a close, personal
friend of Deniz)
helms the swag
table featuring not only DT & Golden Breed t-shirts et cetera but Tek's "Citadel Years" double-CD and assorted Radio Birdman items.

Master of his percussion domain, Steve Godoy, below, post-gig.

Looking like size-variable Alice in Wonderland below, Dire perches atop the club's surreal, giant piano bench...

...and reflects while looking gloriously if deceptively angelic, particularly for a literary titan, albeit one in black patent leather.

*Beside being a punk rock legend, Tek is also an E.R. surgeon as well as former U.S. Navy "top gun" jet fighter pilot. Really.

Below, not from the gig in question, but fun and representative video nonetheless:



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DENIZ TEK in ANN ARBOR

Deniz Tek in my studio, 2010 and...

depicted above sporting an Iggy and The Stooges shirt presaging his appearance at the Tribute to Ron Asheton starring Iggy and The Stooges 4.19.11. Deniz, legendary guitarist of Australia's Radio Birdman in the genuine punk 1970s and beyond, was being interviewed for Ron Perry's filmed documentary on the entire span of the Detroit and Ann Arbor music world, "Detroit Rock Project," the day before the gig. Deniz is in fact an Ann Arbor native despite his still ongoing, peripatetic global performing schedule. For instance, you can find info of two new 2011 summer gigs Aug. 26th and 27th with the Godoy twins in NY and NJ at Retrokimmer's LINK, and more of my studio pix of Tek and the famed tattooed twins here LINK.

Take a gander at that movie star smile! He remains a genial and extremely photogenic soul (perhaps it's that military discipline from his Top Gun jet pilot days, as well as his doctorate in medicine,) even when he asserts his game face, seen below in his stint as guest artist at the Tribute to Ron Asheton in Ann Arbor MI 4.19.11. I'll let the photos at the Tribute speak for themselves.

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more DENIZ TEK

R.e. the previous post, my 2010 photo of legendary Radio Birdman guitarist Deniz Tek, another rock and roll over-achiever, as he's a former Navy "Top Gun" pilot, an E.R. surgeon and fine artist in painting. Currently seen gigging with The Soul Movers and the Godoy Twins. He's full of stories recounting his adventures playing with his fellow Midwest legends in the MC5, Stooges and others. For details on the original session with the Godoy Twins and Jimmy Recca, click this LINK.

Thanks, DENIZ TEK

Well, gosh! I haven't had such praise heaped on me since...never! Thanks Deniz for this in reference to this! In appreciation, here's my photo of Rico's '69 matte black Corvette in our back yard during greener times (mentioned in the first link.)(left to right: Loren Molinare, Steve Godoy, Art Godoy, Danny Creadon, Jimmy Recca and Deniz Tek, from the second link.)

DENIZ TEK and the STOOGEDOG BADMEN

Confab of Last of the Badmen, Radio Birdman, The Dogs and The Stooges at my studio last Sunday. Left to right: Loren Molinare, Steve Godoy, Art Godoy, Danny Creadon, Jimmy Recca, Deniz Tek.
More information can be found clicking this LINK.