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Hazcon -- For Your Love (1994)

Hazcon -- For Your Love (1994) (Graham Gouldman) Luftman Von Toaster – Vocals, Bass Pazi Steklo – Guitar, Backing Vocals Comrade Molotov – Guitar, Backing Vocals Carlton Sticks McGrady – Drums, Backing Vocals From the Demo, “Cosmic Pet” Recorded at Bo Hek’s, Fairfield, PA Summer 1994 Review: In the summer of 1994, while the rest of America was busy arguing about whether grunge was dead or just hungover, a small, combustible outfit out of Pennsylvania called Hazcon was quietly building its own mythology. And nowhere is that more evident than on the second track of their demo Cosmic Pet — a song that doesn’t so much nod to classic rock as it does rearrange its furniture. The surprise isn’t that Hazcon could play. The surprise is how they chose to play. Instead of the expected Yardbirds‑inspired guitar heroics — the Clapton/Beck DNA that every bar band in the mid‑Atlantic seemed to be chasing — guitarist Pazi Steklo takes a hard left turn and channels Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues. It’s an inspired choice. Where most young guitarists would have gone for blues‑rock swagger, Steklo leans into Hayward’s melodic clarity: clean lines, emotional restraint, and that unmistakable sense of romantic tension that Hayward built a career on. The result is a guitar part that feels less like a riff and more like a memory — wistful, slightly psychedelic, and just detached enough to make you lean in. Meanwhile, Luftman Von Toaster handles lead vocals and bass with the kind of eccentric confidence that made Hazcon impossible to categorize. His bass lines don’t just support the song; they comment on it, weaving in and out of the guitars like a narrator who’s only half‑interested in telling the truth. Luftman never played it safe, and this track is proof. Comrade Molotov adds the second guitar — a foil, a shadow, a spark — filling the spaces Steklo leaves open and giving the track its slightly unhinged edge. And Carlton “Sticks” McGrady does what he always did best: drumming that sounds like he’s trying to keep the band together and tear it apart at the same time. His backing vocals add a ragged charm, the kind of imperfect perfection that only happens when a band is too busy feeling it to worry about polish. Recorded at Bo Hek’s in Fairfield, PA, the track has that unmistakable 4‑track‑on-a-hot‑day energy — tape saturation, room bleed, and the sense that if you opened the door too fast, the whole thing might collapse. But that’s the magic. Hazcon wasn’t chasing radio. They were chasing chemistry. And on this track, they caught it. “Cosmic Pet” may have been a demo, but it plays like a snapshot of a band in full bloom — weird, fearless, melodic, and utterly uninterested in fitting into anyone’s genre box. It’s the sound of four musicians discovering what they could be when they stopped trying to be anyone else. In other words: It’s Hazcon at their most Hazcon.