The Screamers, The Thread

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I have never seen/heard "Nervous" before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQXsVXVRCI&list=PL62A1766D1743001F&index=26

just put on the CD, thanks Dan, apparently my copy of the DVD is degraded and doesn't play past the first hour... but it's all on Youtube, I am not sure if the vid above is on it or not :(

the whole thing is here

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL62A1766D1743001F

Stevie I will send U a copy of this CDR

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/when_david_lee_roth_awesomely_botched

holy schnikeys

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=541941&viewcomm=7006947#comm7006947
was upped to Dime last week

lol DLR

comments below flagged up Van Halen's synthpunk one-off - Screamers influence is *debatable* but feeling it either way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vOL8e8oeTQ

Some demos being given an official vinyl release.

https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/screamers

woowwww

never thought I'd see this

this bootleg that came out in 2014 but turned up again a couple of years ago (altho still managed to miss out on buying a copy) is really good btw:

https://www.discogs.com/Screamers-Strength-Through-Intimidation-The-1978-Geza-X-Demos/master/889466

oh FFS, missed that one

i missed that one too! added to the list.

got mine pre-ordered

I've heard an advance and yep, great to hear these songs in that quality (which'll be even better on the real thing, I suspect).

A friend of mine did an unofficial remix/remaster of those demo tracks, and I am fine with that version tbh ... maybe if this wasn't Superior Viaduct and wasn't vinyl only I would consider it, but I am not dissing y'all's excitement about this

I'm previously unfamiliar with the company. Are they shit?

lol sarahell I was gonna PM you abt that, Bay Area politics partly and iirc some money complaints?

some feud w/Stranded that I don't understand at all

lol petty scene politics otm -- fwiw, my grudge against scarfy steve is tapering off such that I don't feel compelled to talk shit and say "fuck that guy and his label" every time it comes up, but, his response to Flyergate was serious dickery. ... the money thing was ilxor akm's issue iirc

xp sleeve, the musician whose fb complaint about Stranded that kicked off Flyergate recently moved to Oregon ... probably somewhere near you i think?

and to be super ilx-y here -- the friend who did the Screamers remaster (just a thing he shared w/friends) was the dude through whom I met ilxor Chaki at the Throbbing Gristle reunion show!

Cool

In the late '70s, Screamers were one of the leaders of the L.A. punk scene—but they never released any recorded music. So they became a myth.

A new archival 12" changes all that. For the @nytimes, I wrote about the band stepping into the light: https://t.co/E75jYlMBlr

— Nate Rogers (@Nate_Rgrs) April 14, 2021

Interesting article. 12 “ record out Friday April 16. Saw on twitter someone say they saw Screamers in NYC way back when. I had always thought they just did Cali gigs. I guess not

https://nodogsinspace.libsyn.com/the-screamers-pt-i

The latest episode of Pleasant Gehman's podcast "The Devil's Music" is an interview with Fayette Hauser, the "Cockette" with whom Tomata du Plenty moved to NYC and performed with there circa '72-'74. Some discussion of the Screamers in that.

There's a great interview with Paul Roessl on the Mojack pod.
https://soundcloud.com/mojackpod/154-pat-ruthensmear-ruthensmear-w-paul-roessler
Note that on every episode of that show you need to skip ahead about twenty minutes to get to the interviews. Oh it's also all about the Pat Smear solo album, too, and there is not much mention of the Screamers.

I like No Dogs in Space, but I wonder why they insist that Suicide made just two albums?

holy shit, these are a revelation

WAY more Eno in this (new to me) take of "Punish Or Be Damned" than I ever noticed before

I ordered this thing, is it ever coming out?

mine came today, I'm close to Oakland relatively. it does seem late.

got it!

this ruuuuuuuuuules