Interview with Jinx Dawson of Coven

[atrainradio]

Some highlights.

Coven has still legions of loyal fans, but I would say you were one of the most underrated bands on earth. How do you think: your image was too aggressive, or simply - it wasn't right time for you?

Too subversive and real would be the words... Other bands that followed Coven into the1970's were toned down in content, image and live show... Members of Black Sabbath would not dare wear an inverted cross, nor would they record a Black Mass... Alice Cooper, Kiss etc. were more like Halloween “dress up” bands that did not reflect any real occult life style nor esoteric information on their recordings... I affectionately call them Coven “Lites”... Some think their music loud, heavy and scary, but what did they really reveal? To me Occult Musick should be eerie and darkly enlightening... Our moniker “Coven” was even so obscure of a word when we started that we had to put the definition inside the album and on the Black Mass poster… Coven crafted a scholarly representation via music of medieval sorcery and diabolism...

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Hath anyone heard of Coven by the wat?

[Pigmeat]

Yup. I knew a chick who thought she was a witch who loved them, circa '71. Coven was a tempest in a teapot in their time. The really cool kids fighting over spooky stuff were Robert Plant and Mick Jagger trying to be on stage Satan.

Jagger won in a knockout at Altamont, an event that then proto-dark metal band, The Blue Oyster Cult, did a great send up of in their song, "Tranmaniacon M.C." in '71.


An old friend once referred to to Coven and Black Sabbath as "The sounds of PCP."