The Chesterfield Kings

The Chesterfield Kings led the psychadelic revival of the early 1980s that bands like Distorted Level had pioneered in the late Seventies with weird ditties like Her Mister (1978). Formed in 1979 in Rochester, NY by former Distorted Level singer, underground music journalist and avid record collector Greg Prevost with enfant prodige Andy Babiuk (16 years olf at the time) and keyboardist Orest Guran the Chesterfield Kings offered an oleographic and overly nostalgic view of psychadelia. Not only did their repertory consist entirely of obscure covers, but the band also aimed at duplicating the look and feel of the garage-punk bands of the Sixties. Here Are (Bomp, 1982) was the album that contributed to starting the psychedelic revival of the 1980s.