King Khan is the hardest working Canadian/Indian man in music. Go ahead and find me one that works harder or plays harder. Since his rowdy beginnings in the Canadian garage band scene he has become somewhat of a legend for frantic shows, drunken raging and wild behavior. In fact he got a bunch of attention for sticking his bare ass in the face of Lindsey Lohan while performing at the Cannes Festival with the Almighty Defenders.
Rumor has it that he was banned from KEXP for a while for a drunken belligerent performance he did though he has been back on several times since then (in fact, I saw the Shrines show courtesy of KEXP). He created his own so called “death cult” known as the “Kukamongas” with all members having matching tattoos. While in the Spaceshits, he called himself “Blacksnake”. Besides hard partying and playing with a bunch of bands, he has scored soundtracks for a number of films. He even started his own record label called Khannibalism . He has collaborated on a few other duos, including one with GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, one called the Black Jaspers and another called the Tandoori Knights.
Much of King Khan’s musical career has been shared with Mark Sultan, also known as BBQ.
My favorite of all his acts is King Khan and the Shrines, an amazing mix of soul, funk and punk with a little psychedelic rock mixed in .
I saw King Khan & the Shrines, this day at Bumbershoot, they did a small indoor concert in the studio and then a big one outdoors.
King Khan & BQQ formed the Almighty Defenders as a sort of super group with members of the Black Lips. They performed what I can only call punk gospel.
If you ever get a chance to see him in any of his bands or collaborations, just do it! You will definitely not regret it (unless he sticks his ass in your face!)
Great post.
The BellRays – Fire On The Moon
If Tina Turner sang on “I Against I.”
Here’s another king, King Charles.
RL Burnside – The Criminal Inside Me
“Tryin’ to bullshit the public, you know damn well I’m the king!”
Love RL, I could listen to this song on a loop all night.
RL was the absolute best. I wish I could have seen him live.
Fuck yeah
Hoo boy, GG Allin was too much for me. A couple of my friends saw him and it was everything you always heard, lots of piss, vomit, blood and shit.
A friend of mine bought me one of his albums on a whim, we listened to it once and I was too weirded out to listen to it again for a really long time.
King Khan is FUN stuff.
King Tubby, inventor of dub.
Augustus Pablo – King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
and
Make me a queen, happy again.
Irma Thomas – Ruler Of My Heart
Awesome. That really is fun stuff.
Master’s Apprentices – Death of a King
Tom Petty – It’s Good To Be King:
Chester Copperpot, “I Care And Think About You Every Night, I Swear” off their 2008 album… The Kings of Kirby.
and something different,
Ava Max – Kings & Queens:
Every head would be held up high,
There’d be sunshine in everyone’s sky,
If the day ever dawned when I ruled the world
The way to be, paradise like relaxin’, Black, Latino and Anglo-Saxon
ill go with king prawn