8-Eyed Spy was an early 1980s No Wave band featuring Lydia Lunch, Jim Sclavunos, and George Scott III. They covered the Swamp rock classic Run Through The Jungle by Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit. Their music was infectiously rhythmic and visceral, using throbbing bass guitar, lugubrious saxophone playing and Lunch's petulant vocals. The band recorded only briefly, and released a live album. 8-Eyed Spy broke up shortly after the death of bass player George Scott III. No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Lydia Lunch Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York) is an American singer, poet, writer, and actor. ... Jim Sclavunos is a rock music drummer and percussionist. ... Roots Rock is a classic, early American sound distinct in early 70s bands, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival and Three Dog Night. ... Creedence Clearwater Revival, commonly referred to by their initials CCR or simply Creedence, was an American swamp rock band, fronted by John Fogerty. ... Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. ... White Rabbit is a psychedelic rock song from Jefferson Airplanes 1967 hit album Surrealistic Pillow, also released as a single, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in that form. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ...

The 8-Eyed Spy recordings featured on Lunch's retrospective album "Hysterie" open with the instrumental track "Swamp" and features the folksy song "Diddy Wah Diddy" (Dixon/McDaniel) which Lunch adds No Wave effects to by screaming alternated with alienated howling. 8-Eyed Spy was a fusion of Swamp rock and what was at the time, more fashionable No Wave style. In the song "Dead Me, You Beside", Lunch mimics the sharp vocal and lyrical style of No Wave singer Bobby Swope and stop-start Peter Gunn-style guitar paying featured in Lunch and Swope's band, Beirut Slump. Roots Rock is a classic, early American sound distinct in early 70s bands, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival and Three Dog Night. ... No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Peter Gunn was an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and later ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. ...

Another cover performed by 8-Eyed Spy was Lightning's Girl (Sinatra/Hazelwood), sung in a Southern U.S. accent which suggestively states a lover's warning of when her tough boyfriend would return.

Liner notes on the Hysterie compilation describe the "frantic patchwork" of 8-Eyed Spy. The band's motif was an octopus and the 8-Eyed Spy Lp cover features a pen and ink drawing of a bohemian man wearing a pork pie hat, suggesting a mid twentieth century roots musician of South Eastern U.S.A., but not specifying a particular style of music.

Lunch and Sclavunos later rejoined on Lunch's In Limbo mini Lp, with Thurston Moore, Pat Place and Kristian Hoffmann. Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer and guitarist for Sonic Youth. ...