The Neon Violets play psychedelic rock with a heavy tribal drone rock/space rock style. The band are primarily a 2 piece from Oxford, England and were formed in 2010 by drummer Nell Wimpenny and Joe Chapman (Spiral 25, Dirty Sci-Fi) on bass guitar an vocals. The sound is created by use of 3 amplifiers for the bass guitar: a standard bass amplifier, a guitar valve amplifier and a solid state HH amp which has built in plate reverb.
This obscure San Francisco '60s band gained a degree of notoriety in the '80s when their punk-garage single "Mr. Pharmacist" was included on one of Rhino's Nuggets compilations and covered by the Fall. Actually, most of the Other Half's material was far less garage than psychedelic, featuring the sustain-laden guitar of Randy Holden, one of the best Jeff Beck-inspired axemen of the '60s. Boasting a just-out-of-the-garage approach to Haight-Ashbury psychedelia, the group cut a little-heard, fairly strong album, as well as a few rare singles, in 1967 and 1968.