Format Details: 180g Ltd Edition
Release Date: 20 January 2009
Label: Alive Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 634457508811
Genres: Rock
Description
Four Craig Leon-produced tracks released on BOMP -- which is the parent company of Voxx -- and five demo tapes that were recorded on four-track comprise this excellent collection. "When I Get Off" was the number two Garage Record of the Year in 1978 in Boston's Real Paper,and it is a psychedelic masterpiece. The dueling guitars,slashing riff,and great Corraccio bass complement Mono Mann aka Jeff Connolly's blitzkrieg vocals. Here is a slice of pyschedlia that is the fans outdoing the bands they idolize. Also,as with Willie Alexander's demos,it seems Craig Leon did a much better job on smaller budgets. The lyrics are sexist,but fun in "Barracuda" -- definitely not the Heart song -- "Lift up Your Hood," and the aforementioned "When I Get Off." There is also a cool cover of Roky Erickson's "You're Gonna Miss Me" and a fantastic album jacket of the band photographed at what looks like the Rat nightclub inside a red background covered in barbed wire fence. There's even a cool inside joke,Bomb records instead of Bomp,the famous label founded by Greg Shaw. A definite statement about the heart and soul of demos having a special something major-label homogenization fails to establish. Rudy Martinez of Question Mark & the Mysterians has even covered a Connally composition written for Mono Mann Jeff's current group,the Lyres.track listing (ALLMUSICGUDE )
Tracklisting
Gyasi
Hollis Brown
Dirty Streets
The Telescopes
Left Lane Cruiser
Gyasi
Datura4
DMZ
Stiff Little Fingers
The Warner E Hodges Band
REO Speedwagon
Phillip Parfitt
Damon Fowler
GEL
Kid Bookie
Humanist
