DESCRIPTION:
Zos Kia’s essential second vinyl release, and the first to be released on the Temple record label run by Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic T.V.

This clear vinyl copy was given to me from a box that he had stashed away for mail order customers in his Beck Road base in Hackney.

This record was played to death at the time. The track ‘Be Like Me’ being a real foot stomper with a funky overtone and a guitar line reminiscent of 'Public Image', the debut single from Public Image Limited.

The foot stomping starts after a couple of minutes of pleasant piano introduction, the piece that continues throughout the song, hidden under the percussive instruments, funky bass line and general noise.

The lyrics, almost line for line, are courtesy of the Reverend Jim Jones, the infamous leader of the San Francisco’s Peoples Temple.

The followers of the San Francisco’s Peoples Temple, as well as the Reverend Jim Jones himself, met a sudden and violent end in November 1978. More than 900 Temple members committed suicide by drinking poisoned juice, the followers that did not want to go through with the sacrifice were shot (along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip) by the Temples 'guards' in the jungle clearing of 'Jonestown', Guyana.

The San Francisco’s Peoples Temple was at that point based on that continent after leaving San Francisco under intense F.B.I scrutiny.

The lines making up 'Be Like Me' was part of a Reverend Jim Jones speech that was made during the mass suicide.

The B-side, 'Ten Miles High', is a short noise festival which I guess is, ahem, very loosely based on 'Eight Miles High' by The Byrds. Save a snippet of a guitar sound lifted from that famous song from the 1960's, there is nothing to compare the two songs.

Zos Kia are verging towards Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music' era rather than the flower power of the late 1960's Los Angeles.

The repetitive loop at the end of 'Ten Miles High' is exactly that. A loop that continues until you lift up the stylus on the turntable.

I cut it short of course.

Play this record at maximum volume and then some…

The George Best photographs on either side of the sleeve artwork, I have no clue about, unless it is to entice the purchaser to 'be like' him, a hidden visual message to camouflage the Reverend Jim Jones speech. I might have just made that up, but it would have been in line with some visual and audio hidden meanings in Psychic T.V and their allies published books, pamphlets or record releases.

More Zos Kia posts may be listened to and viewed HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca-KIUt1yPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1e8yL90oOA

The word 'enjoy', might not be right term to use for Zos Kia, but whatever...