Jim McCarthy ~ The Godz page

and friends

Jim McCarthy

Here are some thoughts and memories from Denise about her friend Jim.

The first Jim in my life was Jim Addison, who introduced us young Whitlam renegades to interesting US music and bands. He would play us records in his bungalow in 1972-75, which included The Fugs, The Godz, Red Crayola, The Seeds, ? And the Mysterians, and a whole lot more.

In 2005 I set up the primitivecalculators.com website. We dedicated our live album, put out by Alan Bamford in the early 80s, to Jim McCarthy from the Godz. I wrote that fact on the website. Google indexed that page, and Jim found out all about us after googling The Godz. In 2006 I got an email from someone asking me if they could buy the PC CD put out by Chapter Music in 2004. The email was signed, Jim McCarthy.
(I'm trying to find that email, I'm sure it's archived somewhere, I am obsessively organised.)

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I answered yes sure, what's your address and are you THAT Jim McCarthy, and yes it was. So we back and forthed via email for the next few years. Then in 2010, I was heading to Massachusetts to go to my niece's wedding and was going to spent a week in NYC in October. "Would you like to meet up" I asked. He replied "Sure, why not". And we have become good friends ever since then.

Denise and Jim at the Cloisters, NYC, October 2010

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During that visit I gave Jim a PC t/shirt. We meet up for dinner that night and he gave me a copy of an autographed photo of Jim, his bandmate Paul and Eric Burdon and the Animals (probably from 1964)

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It is now up on my "Jim" wall at home.

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And the lovely Jim also sent me these photos he took during the New Orleans Jazz Festivals that he went to every year. His is a really really great photographer.

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My Jim wall.

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During another visit to NYC in 2015 Jim took me on a nice walk around the West Village, NYC.

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I also visited him in 2017 (after another wedding in Massachusetts) and I recorded him singing a few things for me to use in the future. This is what we did ...

https://deniseanddavesing.bandcamp.com/track/please-dont-breed
https://deniseanddavesing.bandcamp.com/track/diseases

Thanks so much Jim, for many years of friendship and inspiration and I absolutely love all of your work.

Here is more info about Jim ...

https://web.archive.org/web/20011122005804/http://www.jimmccarthyphotography.com/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godz_(New_York_band)

Youtube video of the Godz by filmmaker Jud Yalkut from 1966
https://www.discogs.com/artist/348797

https://thegodz.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-testament

https://myspace.com/originalgodz/bio

https://uglythingsmagazine.blogspot.com/2011/05/interview-with-jim-mccarthy-of-godz.html

Always Was, Always Will Be.