UK stoner rock band (different from the Talking Heads side project "The Heads")
Artist Biography
by Eduardo Rivadavia
Arising from the relatively quiet music scene in Bristol, England,
the Heads comprise singer/guitarist
Simon Price, lead guitarist
Paul R.A. Allen, bassist
H.O. Morgan, and drummer
Wayne C. Maskell. On the surface, their independent 1995 debut,
Relaxing With the Heads, seemed to slot right into the mid-'90s bustling stoner rock scene, built upon predominant
Sabbath and '70s hard rock influences. But upon closer inspection, it soon became clear that
the Heads
never even made it that far. Instead, the band draws most of their
inspiration from the late '60s, combining the sounds of proto-punk
Detroit and post-British Invasion psychedelic bands with the acid trips
typical of U.K. space rock pioneers like
Hawkwind. Approached by the Man's Ruin label (company owner and legendary artist
Frank Kozik often claimed that they were his favorite band),
the Heads
spent the next three years participating in the odd stoner rock
collection and issuing a wealth of 7" singles and split E.P.s, most of
which were eventually compiled onto 1998's
The Time Is Now!
Personal differences and university studies drove the band apart for
the next couple years, but they eventually made an unexpected return in
the year 2000 with their second/third album (depending on who you ask),
the critically acclaimed
Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere.
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