As a happy belated birthday tribute to the one and only Ty Segall (who turned 38 years young yesterday), this week we’ll be taking a trip down memory lane by spotlighting some choice performances from the California psych-rocker’s heyday. And that heyday really started gaining traction with the release of his third studio album, Melted, way back in 2010.
Hard to believe that was a decade and a half ago now, but Melted really felt like the first time Segall’s warped and aggressively crunchy brand of psychedelic garage-rock truly came into full form across the span of an entire album. And that aforementioned warped crunch landed like a sledgehammer courtesy of the first track on that album “Finger”, which kind of sounds like Black Sabbath fed through copious amounts of raw, abrasive distortion, deep-fried in acid to be point of being “melted” (get it?) down to its delightfully raw primordial fuzz-soaked oozy essentials. Which is to say it was fucking HEAVY, but with Ty’s trademarked twisted spin on it, of course.
Checkout this killer performance of the track live from Nashville in 2012 and witness Ty bring the house down in all his manic, doomy glory (which includes an impressive stage dive at the 1:40 mark):
