F&ing COG - Lucius Borich (son of the truly greatest Kiwi/Aussie Blues Guitarist Kevin Borich) was the drummer extraodinaire with one of my fave live bands in the '90's called Juice, a heavy funk/Rock/Groove outfit driven by guitarist brothers Krishna & Armanth Jones. He left Juice becuase he wanted to explore the heavier side of music, and was the skin thumper for a band called "The Hanging Tree", a band that untra heavy rock, loud as f&ck, very political, quite on the stoner side of things (not unlike Kyuss actually, but overall a faster BPM). Just so happened that one of THT's guitarists was Flynn Gower, and that's how COG came about. Oddly, he's now with another 'tow brothers' just as he was in Juice.
Personally, I think COG are becoming a bit more commercialised in their sound & approach, but I still tip my hat to them. They tour (or have toured) relentlessly to promote themselves, playing major cities, Regional Cities & small towns. One tour about three years ago, they played something like 60 shows across Australia off their own back (& finances) because they believed in themselves. I hope it's finally paying off for the guys, despite what I think of their recent material - they are doing the hard yards, and they deserve to be rewarded with at least the lifestyle of being able to lie off their art.
