The Go “Ferdinand Attic Demos” 1999/2019. Third Man Records, part of the Third Man Vault Package #41, recorded in the attic of Jack White’s childhood home on Ferdinand St. in Detroit (and on “Mottled Carpet Remnant” colored vinyl in celebration of the flooring in that attic) just before their studio recording of their debut album Whatcha Doin’ for Sub Pop Records (White left the band after that record’s release). I loved The Go back in the late 90′s/early 2000′s before I knew who Jack White was or even that the White Stripes existed. Raw midwestern garage punk in the spirt of MC5: this demo LP comes from completed unedited tapes – per the liner notes “all tape crunches, abrupt stops and general weirdness remains intact.” The demo has rough, lo-fi and somewhat muddy recordings of some of the great tracks that would appear on Watcha Doin’ like “Meet Me at the Movies,” “Summer Sun Blues,” ‘Watch Doin’,” “On the Corner,” “You Can Get High” and one of my favorite garage-punk tracks from the whole era “Keep On Trash.” The record feels like a 1:00 am show at a shitty rock club on a cold Midwestern night (but without bar banter and yells to the half-baked sound guy to turn up the sound in the monitors), something we are sorely missing these days.