New York City's The Godz took a proto-punk approach to making flower-power hippy psychedelia in the '60s. Recording for the famed ESP-Disk label, the band was at home amongst that label's roster of free jazz experimentalists and avant-garde weirdos. Yet the Godz cacophonous mix of garage rock, noise, and an inspired sense of high-concept low-brow mayhem was jarring even for ESP. The band broke-up in 1974, and in 2005 founding member Jay Dillon passed away. The surviving members reunited a few years later, however, to record new material.