Chilton had recorded The Seeds Can t Seem to Make You Mine, Troy Shondell s 1961 rocker Girl After Girl, The Kinks Come on Now all summarily savaged with a gusto that goes even beyond the brutalism postmodern prankster Chilton accorded them earlier. Plus the band lends a feral bite to Big Star power-pop evergreens adding furry layers of feedback and existential yearning in equal amounts.

All of it presented a greasy, ground-level picture of where Chilton s heart resided at the time, delivered with an earnest derangement roughly akin to Captain Beefheart s early funhouse-mirror distortions of the blues.

Chilton may have arrived in his pajamas, but he came to rock.Live in Londonconfirms that his mission was accomplished.