seattle sound Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/seattle-sound/ Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:46:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 Gas Huffer “Janitors of Tomorrow” https://vinylfromthevault.com/gas-huffer-janitors-of-tomorrow-1991-empty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gas-huffer-janitors-of-tomorrow-1991-empty Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:36:27 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/gas-huffer-janitors-of-tomorrow-1991-empty/ Gas Huffer “Janitors of Tomorrow” 1991. Empty Records. Grungy, garagey punk blues via Seattle, Janitors of Tomorrow is Gas Huffer’s debut album. It punches hard with a mix of crazed psychobilly (like “Nisqually,” “Dangerous Drifter” and “Lizard Hunt”), 60′s/70′s era power pop (“Going to Las Vegas,” “Robert”) and head-banging garage punk (“Shoe Factory,” “All That Guff” and “Love Comes Creeping”). For each [...]

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]]> Gas Huffer “Janitors of Tomorrow” 1991. Empty Records. Grungy, garagey punk blues via Seattle, Janitors of Tomorrow is Gas Huffer’s debut album. It punches hard with a mix of crazed psychobilly (like “Nisqually,” “Dangerous Drifter” and “Lizard Hunt”), 60′s/70′s era power pop (“Going to Las Vegas,” “Robert”) and head-banging garage punk (“Shoe Factory,” “All That Guff” and “Love Comes Creeping”).

For each of Gas Huffer’s albums (seven full-lengths; the band broke up in 2006), they included a comic book illustrating the lyrics but also fun stuff like mazes and cut-out masks of the band members. The comic books were drawn and written by the band: Matt Wright on vocals, Tom Price on guitar, Don Blackstone on bass and Joe Newton on drums who went on to become an art director for Rolling Stone magazine.

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