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Social Distortion “Poshboy’s Little Monsters”

sfilzen — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:09:14 +0000

Social Distortion “Poshboy’s Little Monsters” 1981/2019. Poshboy Records/Radiation Records. Limited edition (200) red and white splatter vinyl (Italian pressing). There is quite a bit of backstory to this 6-song EP by California first wave punks Social Distortion, who were teenagers (drummer John Stevenson was only 16!!) when they recorded this session with Poshboy Records’ Robbie Fields. SD’s first single “Mainliner” was originally intended to be a 4-song EP. According to Robbie Fields’ liner notes on Poshboy’s Little Monsters, “…I had promised [Mike] Ness that we would not fight so once there was a minor disagreement over the artwork for the proposed 12” (EP), I dropped the project in favor of the “Playpen“/”Mainliner” 7″ which sported iconic artwork from the band.” So four songs – I believe the other two intended were “Moral Threat” and “All the Answers” which they re-recorded for their first LP Mommy’s Little Monsters – became two in ’81. The other two songs SD recorded with Fields were “1945” and “Moral Threat.” This version of “1945″ appeared on the 1981 comp Rodney on the ROQ and Posh Boy included both “Playpen” and “Justice for All” on its 1981 The Future Looks Bright comp. All six songs would eventually be compiled on Mainliner (Wreckage From the Past) in 1995, Time Bomb Recordings. And that is not an exhaustive list of alternate recordings, record labels and compilations that these songs would take between 1981 and 1995 – it gets complicated and very confusing!

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Germs “Cat’s Clause”

sfilzen — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:55:43 +0000

Germs “Cat’s Clause” 1993/2020. Radiation Records. Limited edition, gatefold, includes a 60×60 poster of the album cover. Today, August 5th, is Germs co-founder and guitarist Pat Smear’s birthday (b. Georg Albert Ruthenberg, 1959) – he also toured with Nirvana, has been on again/off again with Foo Fighters, was briefly in 45 Grave and has recorded with acts as diverse as Mike Watts to Paul McCartney. Cat’s Clause is a comp of live Germs shows and rehearsals from ‘79 and ‘80, originally a 10″ on Spanish label Munster Records released in ‘93. Some of this material I already have (because I’ll literally buy any Germs material that crosses my path) but most of it is new to me – not necessarily the songs but the live versions that appear here. I don’t recall hearing their cover of PiL’s “Public Image,” which leads off the album, from their infamous Dec. 3rd 1980 concert at the Starwood. I definitely had not heard “Germ’s Riot” recorded at the Great Gatsby in Redondo Beach in January 1980…and never need to hear it again as it’s about 3 hours of crowd sounds, mostly incoherent yelling and arguing (hardly a “riot” – it’s also only 5 minutes long but it feels much much longer). Also new to me are the two tracks recorded at Fleetwood in Renondo Beach, 1980: “My Tunnel” and “Communist Eyes” (which of course appears on the Germs’ only official LP G.I.) as well as the renditions of four songs from the Canterbury rehearsals (for G.I.) in ‘79 – “Strange Notes,” “Circle One,” “Forming” and “What We Do is Secret.”

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